Alain Lacoursière's Main Suspect in the 1972 Theft of the MMFA Emails Him a Link to a Mercedes-Benz Commercial Video that Shows a Stolen Painting in a Bank Vault in Hong Kong

In April 2011, in one of our quarterly emails, Alain Lacoursière, as he updated me on the extension of his Canadian television show, said that his favorite suspect in the MMFA theft had sent him a link to a Mercedes-Benz video on YouTube about bank robbers recovering a stolen painting. You may read about it here and here on ARCA's art crime blog.

Presented Paper on the 1972 Theft of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts at ARCA's International Art Crime Conference in Amelia in 2010

Last summer I presented my paper on the unsolved 1972 theft of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts at ARCA's second annual international art crime conference in Amelia, Italy. You can read more about that conference on the ARCA blog here. In June, ARCA's Journal of Art Crime will publish my article on Canada's largest art theft.