“It was basically an assassin’s tool kit,” said O’Toole. Inside the bag, police found two guns, one equipped with a silencer. However, a bag was dropped on the side of the road. That’s when a Lynn Police patrol until noticed a man changing his clothes in the area of 58 Broad Street and stopped to investigate. Police say the killer unscrewed the light bulb that hung over the doorway, ensuring that Marks couldn’t see the assassin in the shadows.Īs investigators probed the Marks’ murder, they believe he was actually targeted for death much earlier, in October 1990. The apartment building sits in a courtyard, set back off the busy street. He was shot in the back of his head as he approached the front steps of his triple decker at 58 Broad Street in Lynn. Investigators believe Jimmy Marks never saw it coming. “He had left Maine with Guarente in separate vehicles, arranging to meet up at Marks’ residence later. “(Marks) had been in Skowhegan, Maine that day, visiting with Robert Guarente,” Lynn Police Captain Mark O’Toole told me. Lynn Police homicide detectives handling the Marks case have been able to put Jimmy Marks together with Bobby Guarente on the day Marks was killed.

He was close with her,” Amore said.ĬONNECTING JIMMY MARKS AND BOBBY GUARENTE

“(Elena) had a horse, and he would be there tending to the horse, which he really enjoyed. “He would be there (with them),” Amore said. “She was very emotional when she talked about the fact that he had been killed by her late husband,” Amore told me.Īmore said that Elene Guarente told investigators Jimmy Marks was a frequent guest of the Guarentes at their home in Maine. She couldn’t remember his last name.Īmore told me subsequent interviews and more investigation revealed not only was “Irish Jim” Jimmy Marks, but Elene Guarente said her husband killed him. She told them Bobby was friends with an “Irish guy” named Jimmy.

In 2010, Amore and FBI Agent Geoff Kelly interviewed Elene Guarente and first heard her story about Bobby Guarente giving Robert Gentile two of the stolen Gardner artworks. The 1991 murder of Jimmy Marks was almost forgotten.īut recently, a tip came to Gardner Museum Security Chief Anthony Amore that in the months before he was killed, Jimmy Marks was bragging that he was not only in possession of some of the stolen Gardner artwork, he bragged that he had hidden it. However, homicide investigators and the head of security at the Gardner Museum believe the Jimmy Marks Murder may be linked to the Gardner Art Heist and now the Marks murder is providing a new lead the FBI is actively pursuing. To this day, the Marks murder is officially unsolved there has never been an arrest. On February 20, 1991, investigators say Jimmy Marks was the victim of a classic mob-style hit outside his apartment in Lynn. Jimmy Marks was a career criminal, and an associate of Bobby Guarente. Now, New England’s Unsolved has learned, for the first time in a decade, there is a new name to consider in the Gardner Heist investigation and it brings us right back to Bobby Guarente and Robert Gentile.

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