RODOLICO: In the late 1980s, David Turner and George Reissfelders lives in crime converged. George Albert Reissfelder Jr 1940-1991 Mary "Maria" Petrillo 1938-2007 Spouse and Children George Albert Reissfelder Jr 1940-1991 Male Mary "Maria" Petrillo 1938-2007 Female Parents and Siblings George Albert Reissfelder Sr 1901-1976 Male Emma G Schnabel 1904-1967 Female Siblings (4) Phyllis Reissfelder 1925-1936 Female Reissfelder did not stick with the Inmate #6875309 look after a couple of weeks from his release from prison as the photo (far right) taken six years before the Gardner Heist shows. Richard Reissfelder, who lives in Massachusetts, said when he saw the painting prior to his brothers death, he did not recognize it as one of the missing Gardner items. HORAN: Was David Turner in on the robbery of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum? RODOLICO:That first letter started a correspondence between Blanding and Turner that lasted for several years. Anthony Amore told us, his leads havent panned out. He was 51 and has never been formally connected to the theft. People like Carmello Merlino. Barnicle also explores another South Shore connection: Reissfelder's sister-in-law, Donna Reissfelder. Then, just days before the trial was set to start in late 1995: SIKELLIS: Charlie Pappas was shot and killed on Thanksgiving eve. And then there was a home invasion robbery that happened in 1990 where allegedly Turner and Pappas came and invaded the home of this couple, and made off with $130,000 in cash and jewelry. A poem a previous boyfriend had written threw him into a rage. Thats the auto body shop about four miles from the Gardner Museum that doubled as an underworld nerve center. Mr. DiMuzio, who was shot to . Resides in Mashpee, MA. This time he was found dead from 'cocaine poisoning' a suspected mob hit that was never proven," he wrote. SANTOS: I said, "Yeah, it looks like George. And I told Anthony right off, but I don't-- the George that I knew it would never ever put on a cop uniform, so I don't-- I really don't know that he would have done this. So I just became a prisoner for six, seven years., HORAN: George Reissfelder had an altogether different take on his life with Santos. Mr.. So he offered Reissfelder, who still visited him in prison sometimes with David Turner in tow some advice. HORAN: And before then he was saying that his brother hadn't done it, but it was seeing that painting that convinced him that his brother must have done it. At the time, Reissfelder was 49 and DiMuzio was 42. Turner has steadfastly denied that he has cooperated with authorities in the Gardner case but The Boston Globe reported in 2016 that federal officials shaved seven years off of his 38-year sentence, a reduction that puts his release in 2025. Donna told me, I distinctly recall that painting the man in the high hat, Reissfelder said. There are clues that seem to let him off the hook. Updates: 13 years after the theft . BLANDING: I can show you one of these letters that I found where he says, "I'm happy to share this information about the Gardner Museum, as well as these other crimes that, that I have knowledge of." A prosecutor dubbed him the Teflon gangster of the South Shore.. During the same interview, Reissfelder said he believes his older brother is one of the two men depicted in new Boston Herald composite sketches of the two thieves who dressed as cops and robbed the Gardner before dawn on March 18, 1990. Would they let him go? This is the story of David Turner and George Reissfelder, two men who prove that the criminal life is an equalizing one that erases distinctions like where you came from and where you could have gone. Guarente's wife claimed he gave two of the paintings to Connecticut mobster Robert Gentile, but in February 2021 Gentile seemed to deny any involvement with the heist. The two men belonged to the crew of local criminal Carmello Merlino, who was first . The other wasnt. Just a warning: What youre about to hear is disturbing. Some of Turners letters, Blanding says, offered tantalizing hints about the Gardner heist and other unsolved crimes. I still remember that very, very vividly. The other one was middle aged and beaten down and had done hard time for a murder he didnt commit. Prominent chin. She recalled seeing it in a golden frame on the brothers bedroom wall at his apartment at 35 Brooks Ave. in Quincy, Richard Reissfelder said. Edward D. Cowhig of Gate of Heaven Church in South Boston that Reissfelder was innocent. 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RODOLICO: Robert Beauchamp and George Reissfelder were lovers. And, um, when she unveiled these portraits to me, and she brought up one of the images the thief with the slimmer face I looked at it and said, "Wow, that's George Reissfelder." In the same year, she won Gold Canada's Player of the Year. It's Boston local news in one concise, fun and informative email. But the celebratory scene from his release date on Aug. 30, 1982, did not last for Reissfelder, then 42. 1. He would always be there for you. Within 11 years, the former Jamaica Plain resident was found dead of cocaine poisoning in his Quincy apartment, in March 1991, according to police. And after you pass by those two it seems like an exercise in futility, but I went through the other 11 pieces. This Is a Robbery. But, Steve says, there is one for two days after March 20. The two robbers were George Reissfelder and Lenny DiMuzio, both of whom died within a year of the heist. Jan 12, 1901 - Apr 15, 1993 . Santos eventually lost her high rank and received a dishonorable discharge. 35: Daughter: Louise Reinsfelder. They're gonna sell out their mothers to get out of jail. Robert L Reissfelder Construction. He had a-- he was very well built. Well, I thought so, you know, but, you know, in hindsight what did I know about love, you know? BEAUCHAMP: My only connections with the Gardner robbery is I had the generic idea they should steal art as crime insurance. Because I realized at that point-- I thought maybe they'd steal maybe up to five million dollars at the most, but when it turned out to be hundreds of millions, I said, "You know what type of investigation this is going to be compared to what it would have been?". AMORE: He spent a long time 16 years in the country's toughest prison for something he hadn't done. GEORGE REISSFELDER: One night I woke up about 12, 1 oclock in the morning, sweating, shaking. There are no credit card receipts for the day of the heist, March 18. I mean, it was--, it was--, it was chilling to be in the same room at times. In details of David Turners alleged robberies, it was hard to miss the hallmarks of the Gardner heist. And why were the Boston FBI agents who arrested him so convinced that he knew something about the Gardner heist, they offered him a get out of jail free card to talk? A day after top House Democrats released their $56.2 billion budget plan for next fiscal year, the branch on Thursday whisked to passage a $1.1 billion tax relief bill that also makes statutory changes to the state's tax cap law and rainy day fund. And it's remarkable. HORAN: Robert Sikellis says he believes that David Turner was behind the killing. When he was arrested, he tried to pull a gun on the police and landed back in a Bay State prison. Turner alleged entrapment by the FBI and twice appealed his conviction and lost. And have money left over to buy, like, a seven-bedroom house. He calls it the perfect vehicle to tell the story of Boston., It, in my mind, represents so much of the citys respect for art and culture, its value of learning, and the sort of really richer ideas, and then also represents, you know, this other side of the city that is rough, and dirty, and criminal, and we have this tension that, you know, rests at the center of it all.. And John Kerry and Roanne Sragow are going to, you know, be his best friends forever now." I've seen that painting in my brother's apartment." Remember the two suspects who fled TRC and crashed their car after FBI agents pursued them? Missing among its 29 charges is that social workers beating death in 1985 the summer after Turner graduated from high school. And when Janice Santos first learned about the heist, she had an immediate intuition about who that was. He is running on the 2018 Republican ticket for the office of Secretary of State in Massachusetts. HORAN: Something like the presumably straightforward question of where David Turner was the night of the Gardner heist. Reissfelder died in 1991, according to the documentary. I will go after your-- I'll go after your family." It was 17 years ago. Her divorce from Reissfelder was finally granted in 1990, the same year his name would be added to the list of men whose name has been attached to the Gardner heist. His first wife left him. When George spoke with "Seinfeld" creator Larry David and said he had no chemistry with Swedberg and wondered why he had to work with her, David told him, "That's why.". In her book, Seinfeldia, Jennifer Keishin Armstrong gives the full story . The other one was middle aged and beaten down and had done hard time for a murder he didnt commit. I'm a prisoner at MCI Norfolk. KURKJIAN: What was your commonality? He went through her stuff, looking for evidence that he couldnt trust her. While they might be very different sports, NBA basketball and association football rely on statistics to make important decisions often enough to have some . And I looked at the Bureau of Prisons' website, which shows a release date. Richard Reissfelder added that when he went to collect his brothers effects after learning of his death, the painting was nowhere to be seen in the apartment. What did he look like back then and, you know, what drew you to him? He was serving a 47-year sentence for his role in a planned 1999 armored car depot heist in Easton. George Reissfelder, on the other hand, left prison in 1982 after serving 16 years for a murder he didnt commit. Since 1987, I have taught Academic and General Biology, Earth Sciences, Physical Sciences, General Chemistry, Conceptual Physics and Human Genetics at Lewiston High School. At a press conference five years ago, the Boston FBI said that they knew where the Gardner art was taken after it was stolen. Reissfelder drove a red Dodge Daytona, similar to the car the students saw outside the Gardner.. He was worried that the TRC gang was getting sloppy. And you kind of have to think on your feet doing something like that. My brother received stolen property. Reissfelders connection to Merlino, 71 who died in prison in 2005 while serving a 47-year sentence for his involvement in the failed armored car depot hold-up became the stuff of presidential election campaign attack ads in 2004. Multiple law-enforcement sources here have told Breitbart News that the two career criminals who committed the historic crime were Kerry's client, George Reissfelder, and a local thug named Lenny DiMuzio. HORAN:And someone who moved between those worlds and settled in the latter is David Turner. The shop was managed by crime figure Carmello Merlino. RODOLICO: The people he knew were from prison. REISSFELDER: I was fortunate. KURKJIAN: This was a ploy by him in order to later tell the investigators, Oh, I was in Florida at the time.. Maria was adopted by another family many years ago, and has changed her name from Reissfelder. KURKJIAN: I went looking for documents. Both resembled police sketches of . The one question Amore is burning to ask the thieves, if he could, is why they chose to steal the artworks that they did. When he was hauled in on drug-dealing charges, Pappass best option to avoid prison time was to flip on Turner. SANTOS: Yeah. A confidential informant later told investigators that Reissfelder was among the members of Merlinos crew that pulled off the $300 million blockbuster art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum on March 18, 1990, according to FBI records. Even as that documentary aired, Santos was trying to find the courage to leave Reissfelder. The other wasnt. When law enforcement couldnt locate Reissfelder, a local mobster told the cops to try his residence again. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest updates, join our Facebook group to discuss the investigation and if you have a tip, theory or thought, we want to hear it. Reissfelders motive, in part, was his anger over the states refusal to compensate him for serving 14 years in prison for murder he had not committed. His wife allegedly told the FBI in 2010 that her husband confessed he gave two of the paintings to alleged Connecticut mobster Robert Gentile, now in his eighties. Shortly after the heist, according to the New York Times, a stolen Manet was spotted in the apartment of George Reissfelder. father Anna Reifelder mother Anna Catharina Reifelder sister view all Johannes Reifelder's Timeline The Gardner Museum. Sragow, who is now a judge in Massachusetts, and Kerry, the former U. S. Secretary of State and presidential candidate, won Reissfelders release in August of 1982. Who was he going to be friends with when he got out of jail? Get popped. They, they, uh, sent my prints to Washington, trying to match up with prints at the Gardner. Investigates Possible Suspects In America's Biggest Art Heist. We dont know what he bought there, but we can guess. And when these two men met, the lucky one was young and handsome and had also, it is alleged, gotten away with murder. Robert L Reissfelder, West Roxbury, MA holds a Building Licenses, Construction Supervisor license and 1 other license according to the Massachusetts license board. June 4, 2015. Carmello Merlinos coke-dealing operation out of TRC Auto Electric was thriving. Richard Reissfelder appears with Gardner museum director of security Anthony Amore, who holds up a picture of one of the stolen paintings. For everything that points toward these particular suspects there's something that points away. And heres someone who spent years trying to follow the trail of both of them. Stay up-to-date with important news developments, delivered right to your inbox. And someone lifted $50,000 from, uh, the Bull & Finch, and David was thought to be involved with that. Reissfelder is the first person to claim hes seen the stolen Manet since it was filched from the Gardners ground-floor Blue Room. He told Reissfelder and Turner that they should steal a piece of art as a sort of crime insurance. Robert Sikellis is the former assistant attorney general for Massachusetts who spent years in the 1990s trying to put David Turner behind bars for those crimes. His kids were taken away. I'm not saying George Reissfelder committed the heist. It was Oct. 16, 1982, and Santos was in the Army National Guard. And that's it. House Session Summary - Votes 150-3 To Send Senate $1.1B Tax Relief Bill State House News Service 4/13/23 4:53 PM. Some believe that Merlino associates, including David Turner and Robert Guarente, were plotting the Gardner heist while the cocaine trafficking probe was underway. He couldn't watch me. Robert Beauchamp says the TRC gang was flying too close to the sun. Sragows efforts to convince the Massachusetts Legislature to compensate Reissfelder for the 16 years he had served in jail for the wrongful conviction failed, however. According to both men, Reissfelder immediately recognized the Manet painting, which depicts a formally dressed man sitting at a table outside the Tortoni cafe in Paris. Im truly struck by how earnest he and his entire family have been, Amore said. After being paroled, Reissfelder immediately proved to everyone that Kerry exercised poor judgment in helping secure his freedom, wrote former Republican operative Stephen Marks in his 2008 book, Confessions of a Political Hitman: My Secret Life of Scandal, Corruption, Hypocrisy and Dirty Attacks.. RODOLICO:In a letter dated Oct. 26, 2003, Turner proposes that Blanding write a book about his life. You can try, Kelly Horan, With Reporting By Jack Rodolico. And the last one was "Chez Tortoni." I just want this crime against civilization to be solved, Reissfelder said. I was 23 years old. HORAN: Why do you think he couldn't have done it? RODOLICO: This is investigative reporter Michael Blanding. And this is-- was always my problem, you know. George Reissfelder. George Reissfelder pictured in Netflix's This Is a Robbery "I wasn't anything involved in it. As a lawyer in the the early 1980s, Roanne Sragow worked with John F. Kerry (who would go on to become a U.S. senator, Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Secretary of State) to free George Reissfelder from prison on the basis that he had been wrongly identified and convicted at his criminal trial for murdering a security guard in 1966. RODOLICO: Two thieves relying on an inside guy, wearing disguises, using handcuffs in the middle of the night at the end of a holiday weekend. What did he give? HORAN: Yeah, so you hear the news and you think Carmello Merlino. George Albert Reissfelder Sr. (1901-1976) - Find a Grave Memorial Born in Boston,worked hard all his life.Married ,father of 5 children.Preceded in death by his wife Emma G(schnabel).We miss him. Reissfelder, who bore a remarkable resemblance to the sketch drawn of one of the thieves, died of a cocaine overdose in July 1991. It was painted between 1878 and 1880. He was very capable. Maybe a couple more years down the line having a couple of little ones running around. RODOLICO: So, four years before the Boston FBI sting on TRC Auto Electric that would finally put David Turner in prison, Robert Sikellis, who had tried and failed twice to do so, had an epiphany about Turners alleged robberies: They looked an awful lot like the Gardner heist, but on a much smaller scale. They also learned that, just a year into Reissfelders sentence, the real killer had made a deathbed confession exonerating him. Last November the Patriot Ledger reported that a new book on the famed 1990 Gardner Museum heists implicated a Quincy resident, the late George Reissfelder, and media reports today have his. Turner, Merlino and Rossetti were convicted in the late 1990s -- and sentenced to long prison terms -- for conspiring to steal millions from the Loomis-Fargo vault outside of Boston, a scheme which had been arranged by federal authorities to gain information on the Gardner heist. Others named Bill Reissfelder. How do you defend yourself against that? The tests were inconclusive. This episode was adapted for the web by Amy Gorel. I found receipts. The publicity was mostly because of the legal defense work of John F. Kerry, and Kerrys law partner. As the investigation progressed, the FBI turned their attention to the Merlino gang, a Boston Mafia crime family full of a number of the most likely suspects. Juliana Reifelder (geboren Wipfler) Son: Johann Georg Reifelder View the Record view all Immediate Family Juliana Reifelder wife Johannes George Reifelder son Johann Caspar Reifelder (Reisf. JANICE SANTOS: OK. Law enforcement was watching it closely, and would take it down in 1991. Janice Santos was 22 years old and in the Army National Guard when she married George Reissfelder just two months after his release from prison in 1982. The feeling was that he was a very dangerous individual. His peers had voted him most unique and had given him the nickname Crackerjack. He had a broad, round face with wide, high cheekbones, a mop of light brown hair, and a grin that conveyed confidence and mischief. Merlino was in fact questioned by the FBI about the whereabouts of the Gardner art on the day of his arrest. George Reissfelder was found dead in his apartment of cocaine poisoning after Merlino told firefighters that he hadnt heard from his friend in several days. 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