Scream Thief Believed Dead

“A 27-year-old man who died this month is believed to be one of three masked gunmen who snatched the Edvard Munch paintings The Scream and Madonna from an Oslo museum in August 2004. The same man is reported to have led police to believe the daring daylight heist was linked to an earlier robbery in which a police officer was shot… The man is reported to have confessed his role in the Munch heist on tape while in conversation with an undercover officer.”