Man indicted for stealing Dorothy's ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums β The Wizard of Oz
CrystalRaindrops β 2 years ago(May 19, 2023 02:29 AM)
A man has been indicted by a grand jury on charges of stealing a pair of ruby red slippers worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz.
The shoes were stolen in 2005 and recovered by a 2018 FBI sting operation, but no arrests were made at the time.
A grand jury indicted Terry Martin with one count of theft of a major artwork, federal prosecutors in North Dakota announced on Wednesday.
The slippers were on loan to the Judy Garland Museum in the late actorβs hometown of Grand Rapids, Minnesota, when someone climbed through a window and broke the display case, prosecutors said when they were recovered. Over the years, several enticing rewards were offered in hopes that the slippers would turn up, including an anonymous donor from Arizona who put up $1m.
The road to the missing slippers began when a man told the shoesβ insurer in 2017 that he could help get them back. After a nearly year-long investigation, the FBI nabbed the shoes in Minneapolis in July 2018. At the time, the bureau said no one had been arrested or charged in the case.
On Wednesday, a summons was issued for Martin. An initial court appearance was set for 1 June, and it will be via video. Terry Van Horn, spokesman for the US Department of Justice in North Dakota, said he could not provide any information beyond what was included in the indictment.
The shoes are famously associated with one of the iconic lines in The Wizard of Oz, as Garlandβs character, Dorothy, clicks her heels and repeats the phrase βThereβs no place like home.β
They were made from about a dozen different materials, including wood pulp, silk thread, gelatin, plastic and glass. Most of the ruby color comes from sequins but the bows of the shoes contain red glass beads.
When they were stolen, the slippers were on loan from Hollywood memorabilia collector Michael Shaw. The three other pairs Garland wore in the movie were held by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Smithsonian and a private collector.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/17/ruby-slippers-wizard-of-oz-stolen -
fun with socks and jane β 2 years ago(May 19, 2023 10:29 PM)
The thread below. At first I thought it was your thread. Then remembered that it was Poo Babyβs thread
https://www.filmboards.com/board/t/TOE-SUCKER-strikes-Nashville:-Hilton-manager-FIRED-for-LICKING-guest-a-...-3451063/
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TaraDeS β 2 years ago(May 19, 2023 10:33 PM)
by CrystalRaindrops May 20, 2023 12:27 AM
Member since February 15, 2018
I don't share my avatar. I beat up Dicknoseian and FakeCrystal for using my avatar a couple weeks ago. They both needed spleen surgery.
The Dicknoesian
just took it, I didn't share it.
To
"beat"
him up for it appears somewhat too aggressive.
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degree7 β 2 years ago(February 03, 2024 06:00 PM)
Looks like the Mafia arranged the heist. The motivation of the thief is kind of funny and sad:
Terry Jon Martin stole the ruby slippers from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota in 2005. In his guilty plea, Martin confessed to using a hammer to break into the museum and smash the display case to take the slippers.
β¦an old mob associate enticed Martin to carry out "one last score" after convincing him that the slippers needed real jewels to match their $1 million insured value.
DeKrey wrote in a memo: "At first, Terry declined the invitation to participate in the heist. But old habits die hard, and the thought of a 'final score' kept him up at night.
After much contemplation, Terry had a criminal relapse and decided to participate in the theft.β
The story took an unexpected twist as Martin explained that he had hoped to extract what he believed were real rubies from the shoes. Disappointingly, he was informed that the rubies were, in fact, glass.
