The largest unsolved art heist in history — is now a podcast

In 1990, two thieves dressed as policemen broke into Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum after hours and stole 13 artworks.

The artists included masters such as Rembrandt and Manet and, in some cases, paintings were neatly cut from their ornate frames. The haul was worth a half billion in today's dollars and nearly three decades later, the works have never been recovered.

All of it makes for an engrossing new podcast examination by WBUR and the Boston Globe called Last Seen. The 10-part series includes fresh interviews and new details from more than a year of investigative reporting.

No surprise considering the involvement of Stephen Kurkjian, a Pulitzer-winning former Globe staffer and author of the 2015 book Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World's Greatest Art Heist.