For his part, Connor continues to claim that Bobby Donati and David Houghton were responsible for the heist (though Donati was over 50 and Houghton, who weighed over 300 pounds, can hardly have been one of the men who entered the museum), and that Houghton told him they were going to use the loot to get him out of jail. Reissfelder died of a "cocaine overdose" in March 1991; Donati was murdered in September of that year; Houghton died of a heart attack in 1992. Turner, who's serving a 38-year sentence in a Pennsylvania penitentiary, might be able to trade the art for his freedom — if he knows where it is. One worrying possibility is that the people who did know where it is are all dead; another is that so many individuals now have a piece of the art that nothing short of a blanket amnesty will bring it forth. But credit Boser and the new Boston Herald initiative for trying.
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