Then, they believe, Guarente held onto the paintings at his home in Maine until the early 2000s…

In his book, The Art of the Heist, Connor wrote that Donati had shown him how easy it would be to break into the Woolworth Estate in Monmouth, Maine.

Sometime in early 2010, Elene Guarente had summoned the FBI’s Geoff Kelly and Anthony Amore, security chief for the Gardner, to her Maine home and was relaying her suspicions about her late husband, Gentile, and the stolen Gardner paintings.

Elena Guarente was having a hard time financially after Robert’s death. The Italian restaurant she had opened near her home in Madison, Maine had closed and she was living on social security disability assistance.

Twice in a matter of months Jeanine produced what she claimed were chips she had collected from paintings her late father had at their home in Madison, Maine.

She testified before a federal grand jury in Boston in 2010, giving details consistent with what she originally told Geoff Kelly, the FBI’s lead agent on the case, and Anthony Amore, the museum’s security chief, at her home in Maine.

He was sentenced to five years in prison, and released on probation in August 2002.

On numerous occasions, over a six-month period beginning in August 1997, the informant paid thousands of dollars to Guarente for cocaine deliveries.

In the early 1990s, as they settled into their new homestead in Madison, Maine, Bobby Guarente had shown Elene a painting of a woman sitting in a rocking chair with her head turned to the side…

The name Elene Guarente wasn’t new to federal agents.

“Elene Guerante showed it to me,” Gentile said, referring to the widow of Robert Guarente

In 2005, Guarente’s daughter and his best friend spoke to a Boston lawyer about the possibility that Guarente had kept several of the masterpieces stashed in his farmhouse in Madison, Maine.

After years of legwork, Amore came to agree with Richard DesLauriers, chief of the FBI’s Boston office, that the stolen artwork had found its way into the possession of Robert Guarente,

The Gardner was the first museum Grindle had worked for.

In a March 2013 press conference that led to national attention, the FBI sketched out in the vaguest of terms a scenario…

“I was born May 19, 1870, in Washington, D.C.,” he said, speaking slowly enough for the newsmen to copy down his remarks.

With Irwin’s photograph splashed across the front page of virtually every newspaper in the East and an estimated twenty thousand law officers on the lookout for him from Maine to Maryland

“Sister, brother Harry, and myself will go to Milwaukee tomorrow, and will go to Old Orchard Beach, Maine, by way of the St. Lawrence River. We’ll visit two weeks in Maine, then on to New York.

He graduated in June 1884 with a lackluster record and set out to find “some favorable location” in which to launch a practice.