After nearly 40 years, the FBI and Amherst College have decided to reopen the investigation from a local campus art museum. In the February of 1975, three historic and genuine paintings were stolen from the college's Mead Art Museum. Each painting was reportedly valued at more than $400,000. In 1989 two of the three masterpieces were recovered, but the third piece entitled "Interior with Figures Smoking and Drinking", was never found. Mead's head of security, Heath Cummings, has been researching this case for years and has now turned over his analysis to the FBI. They aim to publicize this case and hopefully rediscover the artwork.
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