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. BEAUCHAMP: And when I started seeing the FBI sketches of them I thought, those disguises weren't really all that good. HORAN:And someone who moved between those worlds and settled in the latter is David Turner. This hits you anywhere, you're dead." My book argued that David Turner and George Reissfelder were the individuals who robbed the museum. In hopes of gaining consideration for his own release, Beauchamp has cooperated with the FBI and the museum in their search for a recovery. It is-- it is crazy how valuable they are. Thats the auto body shop about four miles from the Gardner Museum that doubled as an underworld nerve center. KURKJIAN: Well, the Spy Store had all sorts of James Bond-type equipment. Composite at left shows digitally aged rendering of one of the thieves. He is running on the 2018 Republican ticket for the office of Secretary of State in Massachusetts. You make a note in your casebook, and go back to reading the witness statements and looking at the suspect sketches. A UH1. What did you see in him? While nothing directly tying him in the Gardner theft was found in his apartment, Reissfelders brother later told investigators later that he had seen what he thought to be Manets Chez Tortoni, one of the 13 artworks stolen from the Gardner, as having hung for a time over his brothers bed. Sikellis says he believes whoever pulled off the Gardner heist had been hired by higher-level criminals and the thieves knew nothing of who masterminded the theft or where the artwork wound up. Some of Turners letters, Blanding says, offered tantalizing hints about the Gardner heist and other unsolved crimes. BEAUCHAMP:Yeah, a couple of times we had Mexican standoffs, and the only reason that he backed down was both times I had a .357 and he only had a small .22 or .25 automatic. RODOLICO:In a letter dated Oct. 26, 2003, Turner proposes that Blanding write a book about his life. I will go after your-- I'll go after your family." Not in person Turner was on a phone line from prison. HORAN: And after that? And when these two men met, the lucky one was young and handsome and had also, it is alleged, gotten away with murder. HORAN: And this is George Reissfelder, remembering his worst hard time. Edward D. Cowhig of Gate of Heaven Church in South Boston that Reissfelder was innocent. Because one of his accomplices from TRC had brought along a hand grenade for the Loomis-Fargo vault heist, David Turner had also received a long sentence. Their BuildZoom score of 103 ranks in the top 10% of 139,240 Massachusetts licensed contractors. And when these two men met, the lucky one was young and handsome and had also, it is alleged, gotten away with murder. 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. Richard Reissfelder appears with Gardner museum director of security Anthony Amore, who holds up a picture of one of the stolen paintings. And when Janice Santos first learned about the heist, she had an immediate intuition about who that was. Ive seen the painting. . The two men belonged to the crew of local criminal Carmello Merlino, who was first . They told me they had information from several sources that I was an actual participant in the robbery. 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. }Customer Service. William Reissfelder currently lives in Westwood, MA; in the past William has also lived in Norwell MA and Coppell TX. After Kerry and Sragow won him a new trial, then-Suffolk County District Attorney Newman Flanagan decided against re-trying the case against Reissfelder. Crime boss Carmello Merlino, who we met in the last episode, was hardly the last best suspect to come out of a crew of criminals based in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood. I'm not saying George Reissfelder committed the heist. However, the Celtics' Senior VP is conservative regarding his private life. I stood up at the cell door, looked out at the cell block it was quiet. And you know, it's frustrating. 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. his is the story of two men. Beauchamp remained on the lam for a decade before being caught. While nothing directly tying him in the Gardner theft was found in his apartment, Reissfelders brother later told investigators later that he had seen what he thought to be Manets Chez Tortoni, one of the 13 artworks stolen from the Gardner, as having hung for a time over his brothers bed. 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. I think its always significant when a person believes that they have seen one of our missing masterpieces, Amore said. She is also a former professional golfer. And it's not. This is the story of two men. HORAN: By business as usual, Turner meant that he believed hed been set up for one crime the planned Loomis-Fargo robbery because the FBI needed leverage in order to question him in another one: the Gardner case. Anthony Amore told us, his leads havent panned out. No one had let Reissfelder know. Came back negative. like follow. This is David Turner, on a lousy phone line from prison, after his luck had run out. Get popped. And he said, "My brother did it. In 1990, two men stole 13 works of art valued at approximately $500 million dollars from a Boston Museum. She looks submissive. Here he is in the 1986 documentary about wrongfully imprisoned men, "Exonerated: The Wrong Man.". WITNESS: Anthony M. Amore, left, director of security at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, with Richard Reissfelder, who says his brother had the stolen Manet. Im really disappointed to have to admit I saw that painting, but it was gone when I went to the apartment after George died in 1991. Of all the men floated as possible suspects in the Gardner heist, no one is more of a dead ringer. display: none; You know, you gravitate to the people that you know. 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. And there are others that dont. This has badly upset my family. In her book, Seinfeldia, Jennifer Keishin Armstrong gives the full story . What did he look like back then and, you know, what drew you to him? #ada-button-frame { Of course they didn't have anything with Merlino because he waited outside the museum in a van, you know, and a walkie talkie keeping, you know, as a lookout. Seinfeld. It's Boston local news in one concise, fun and informative email. I got a call from a State Police lieutenant, and we all rushed to the scene. And this is-- was always my problem, you know. Robert Beauchamp, one of those contacts, has stated that Reissfelder and David Turner, another devotee of Merlinos garage, visited him often in Massachusetts state prison during this term and in the vaguest of terms told him they were planning a major robbery and asked how they might hide the valuables in the immediate aftermath. Reissfelder drove a red Dodge Daytona, similar to the car the students saw outside the Gardner.. Who was he going to be friends with when he got out of jail? JANICE SANTOS: OK. Bill Reissfelder is a married man with a wife and family. Robert Beauchamp says the TRC gang was flying too close to the sun. 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That would be nice. Bill Reissfelder Sales Operations at Klaviyo . It is still the most famous art crime in American history. And about 5'10", maybe 170, -75 pounds. Last time, we told you about the FBI sting in 1999 that brought Merlino and that criminal enterprise down. Over the course of a correspondence that spanned several years, Turner proposed that Blanding write a book about his life. Reissfelder is the first person to claim hes seen the stolen Manet since it was filched from the Gardners ground-floor Blue Room. According to multiple sources, the team's CFO was seen attending several Celtics games with his family. The museum opened to the public in 1903, and Gardner continued to expand the collection and arrange it until she died in 1924. Our colleague Steve Kurkjian thinks he knows. HORAN: Two months after George Reissfelders release, Janice Santos married him. But he said the painting stood out in his memory because it seemed very unusual to him, not something my brother would have., http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/572377002. Since 1987, I have taught Academic and General Biology, Earth Sciences, Physical Sciences, General Chemistry, Conceptual Physics and Human Genetics at Lewiston High School. HORAN: I guess I wonder-- Did you guys fall in love when, when he was in prison? There was a robbery of the Bull & Finch pub, the Cheers you know, the pub that serves as the model for Cheers. ROBERT BEAUCHAMP: OK, I'm Robert Beauchamp. Reissfelder died in 1991, according to the documentary. But Anthony Amore, head of security for the museum, has said that based on Beauchamps statements the FBI and the U.S. Attorneys Office searched homes in Dedham; Lewiston, Maine; and Orrington, Maine, but each time, investigators came up empty. And he grabbed me by the hair, and then-- and then-- and of course, I was stupid. Reissfelder was a 26-year-old father with a criminal record for armed robbery, domestic abuse against his wife and passing bad checks when he was fingered for the Oct. 14, 1966, shooting death of railway clerk Michael Shaw. Were there many female helicopter pilots at the time in Massachusetts? 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." I said that wasn't the release date that was there before. In the same year, she won Gold Canada's Player of the Year. Just dont blame Beauchamp for the Gardner heist. And John Kerry and Roanne Sragow are going to, you know, be his best friends forever now." for 35 years before retiring. You don't even have to be a diehard Seinfeld fan to know how George's fiancee Susan died in season seven: Licking the toxic glue on the cheap wedding envelopes George had purchased . Reissfelder left prison a desperate man and slid back into the underworld. Sikellis next prepared to prosecute Turner for a 1990 home invasion. He had a-- he was very well built. We have-- we had very clear suspicions as to who that was, given he was a cooperating witness, but unfortunately we never had enough evidence to prosecute. The shop was managed by crime figure Carmello Merlino. Charlie Pappas agreed to testify that he had been the getaway driver for Turner and his accomplice in that robbery. The target would be the true crime, artsy type., Let me know what you think. He was 51. BEAUCHAMP: It was a homosexual relationship. Hed heard his late brothers name mentioned in connection with the Gardner heist, and he wanted to clear his brothers name. Subscribe to our newsletterfor the latest updates,join our Facebook groupto discuss the investigation and if you have a tip, theory or thought,we want to hear it. Bill Reissfelder is a husband, father, and family man. RODOLICO: Way too much, George. He went through her stuff, looking for evidence that he couldnt trust her. One of them had options and from them, chose a life of crime. He wouldn't let me go out on the weekends to go to drill, because, obviously, when I went to work, I was gonna screw around with somebody. And from his perch in prison, he says, he knew it. He'd been shot, if I remember, twice in the mouth, if memory serves. And you kind of have to think on your feet doing something like that. As a young prosecutor in the early 90s, Sikellis spearheaded the State Police investigation into a cocaine trafficking ring that operated out of a Dorchester auto body shop called TRC Auto Electric. In 2014, the FBI identified the thieves present at the museum as George Reissfelder and Lenny Dimuzio, who both died within a year of the robbery. Wolf was never shown an image of George Reissfelder or any other suspect while she was preparing her sketches with the former guard. Their criminal pastimes overlapped, too. RODOLICO: But the reason the Boston FBI was so interested in David Turner in the first place is because of other crimes he is alleged to have gotten away with. Investigating further into Reissfelder, you discover that he died within a year after the heist of suspicious acute cocaine poisoning. According to criminal defense attorney Martin Leppo, who defended many of those tied to the heist, the fact that the FBI still hasnt recovered the paintings, its clear the robbery was carried out by people who knew what they were doing. Collection. Thats when it really dawned on me. And in those cases it generally means cooperation. He was sentenced to life in prison and incarcerated at the old Walpole state prison, where he maintained his innocence. Previously, he had worked as a specialist for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. RODOLICO:That first letter started a correspondence between Blanding and Turner that lasted for several years. All this negative publicity. Interesting side note, Carr reports: Reissfelder was free to commit the crime because his court-appointed lawyer, future secretary of State John Kerry, had his murder conviction overturned eight. They, they, uh, sent my prints to Washington, trying to match up with prints at the Gardner. Yeah, no more ads! These are five hundred million dollars worth of art that's stolen. RODOLICO: In the late 1980s, David Turner and George Reissfelders lives in crime converged. HORAN:Boser, who is a senior fellow at a Washington, D.C., think tank now, remains passionate about the Gardner mystery. His body was found after reputed New England Mob figure and Dorchester drug lord Carmello Merlino told firefighters that he had not heard from his friend in several days. So, um, eventually, after I didn't go to enough drills I got thrown out of the military thrown out with a dishonorable discharge. BEAUCHAMP: And they started a major cocaine operation for years. Digital content was produced in partnership with The ARTery, WBUR's arts and culture team. The first ad criticizes Sen. John Kerry's role as a private lawyer in representing George Reissfelder, who spent 15 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of a murder, according to The . Investigates Possible Suspects In America's Biggest Art Heist. In the culmination of two years of work by Reissfelder's court-appointed Boston attorneys, Reissfelder's murder conviction, for which he had served 15 years in prison, was dismissed. One of them had options and from them, chose a life of crime. Two of his closest associates have long been on the radar of those looking into the heist. His brother believes that Merlino and his Dorchester-based crew had a role in the death. Boser typed notes as he listened to Turner on speaker phone. It wasnt long after his release that Kerrys poster boy continued his criminal ways, quickly involving himself with a Mafia-controlled drug ring in Boston. His kids were taken away. Robert Sikellis says Turner was one of the coldest criminals hed ever met. I said to myself, "This is real, and I just might be spending the rest of my life in here.". So I just became a prisoner for six, seven years., HORAN: George Reissfelder had an altogether different take on his life with Santos. Carmello Merlino, a leader of the criminal underworld with mafia ties, ran the auto body shop as a front for his cocaine trafficking business. So that's how I saw it, that I knew that he initially was supposed to get out on one date. Reissfelder said his family is anguished by the revelations and want the art to be returned. HORAN: David Turners 38-and-a-half-year prison sentence was suddenly seven years shorter. BOSER:My name is Ulrich Boser, and I'm the author of "The Gardner Heist." George Reissfelder was already seen as a celebrity when he started hanging out at Carmello Merlinos auto repair shop in Dorchester in the late 1980s. And heres someone who spent years trying to follow the trail of both of them. Charlie Pappas, Leonard "Lenny" DiMuzio and George Reissfelder, who all worked at Merlino's garage, were also under suspicion. And so, what role would he have played? So the question is, whether they went through with that idea and now share the distinction of taking part in the greatest art heist in history. 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? 10: Daughter: Irene Reinsfelder. GEORGE REISSFELDER: One night I woke up about 12, 1 oclock in the morning, sweating, shaking. BEAUCHAMP: Turner was interested in getting out of the drug business. 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. And they're gonna say, 'oh, he's my supplier, Reissfelder.' HORAN: George Reissfelder does resemble the police artists sketch of one of the suspects. Drug deals, illegal weapons, armored car heists, murder. RODOLICO: Sikelliss break came in 1992, when a longtime friend and sometime accomplice of David Turners was swept up in the drug-trafficking sting on TRC Auto Electric. What attracted you to him? You know, it wasn't, "Oh, George is out. A poem a previous boyfriend had written threw him into a rage. And if he did commit the robbery, and we don't know that for sure, right? He was wanted for questioning by the police in regards to the Gardner Museum heist, the largest museum robbery in U.S. history, a case still open and featured on the TV show Unsolved Mysteries, Marks wrote. BOSTON, MA - AUGUST 30: George Reissfelder waves to photographers as he arrives at Suffolk Superior Courthouse in Boston on Aug. 30, 1982. He had kind of a Beatle haircut very straight hair. 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. We never hear her voice. I married a beautiful young girl. Over the years, the Herald has reported on several people who claimed to have access to a Rembrandt stolen the same night, The Storm on the Sea of Galilee. Those leads have never panned out. He was teary-eyed. Immediate Family Johanna Ronellenfitsch wife Ignatius John Rollenfitch son Barbara A Leuthner daughter Vincent Ronellenfitsch son Cecelia Ronellenfitsch daughter Clara Ronellenfitsch daughter Agatha Ronellenfitsch daughter Johanna Ronellenfitsch daughter Marie Ronellenfitsch daughter Maria Theresia Ronellenfitsch mother Georg Joseph Ronellenfitsch And that's it. And I don't think he could have done it, but--. Barnicle also explores another South Shore connection: Reissfelder's sister-in-law, Donna Reissfelder. BEAUCHAMP: My only connections with the Gardner robbery is I had the generic idea they should steal art as crime insurance. I fought back. HORAN: Someone else was waiting for George Reissfelder when he got out, too. In my opinion, I think the overdose he died from had something to do with the stress of being caught. At trial, Merlino argued that he was set up by the FBI because investigators believed the crime boss had access to the stolen Gardner art. Easy. Donna told me, I distinctly recall that painting the man in the high hat, Reissfelder said. Others named Bill Reissfelder. So that's when I suggested to him, "You know, if you could steal a few million dollars worth of art and just put it away, then if you get popped you can, you know, wheel and deal it at that point." Dressed as police in order to fool the night watchmen, the two escaped with 13 pieces of artwork. 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