Steal it then burn it?

Yahoo have an article about how the 7 masterpieces stolen from the Kunsthal museum may have been destroyed by the thieves who found themselves unable to sell the world famous pieces.

"A Romanian museum is analyzing ashes found in a stove to see if they are the remains of seven paintings by Picasso, Matisse, Monet and others that were stolen last year from the Netherlands," reports the Associated Press, which adds that the ashes were found in the stove of one Olga Dogaru, the mother of prime suspect Radu Dogaru.