Even when he's sporting handcuffs and warming a seat in district court, it's hard to see Myles Connor as the inspiration for Hollywood's next museum-heist thriller.
In the movies, after all, art thieves are played by Sean Connery or Cary Grant. They wear hand-tailored suits and indulge champagne tastes. Home is a villa on the coast of France or a stone tower rising above rolling moors.
Connor, now 62, first made headlines almost 40 years ago, when authorities charged him with stealing art works from the Forbes Museum in Milton, Mass., his hometown. But his notoriety truly blossomed in the '90s, when his name was linked to the robbery of Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, by some accounts the biggest art heist in history.
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