Have you seen these ruby slippers? Someone swiped them from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minn and an anonymous individual is offering $1 million reward for their return. From the Washington Post:
Every year, the once-sparkling shoes were lent to the museum by their owner, collector Michael Shaw. When the museum told him it wanted to put the slippers in a safe every night, Shaw wouldn’t have it.
“He was the only person he felt should touch them,” (museum spokesman Rob) Feeney said. “Nobody else.”
And so Shaw delivered the slippers himself and placed them on a podium in a Plexiglass case, about 15 feet from a window. Early on Aug. 28, 2005, as the nation was gripped to TV screens watching Hurricane Katrina roll into New Orleans, the window was smashed with a baseball bat. The Plexiglass was smashed, too, and the slippers were gone. Investigators estimate the job took the thief or thieves less than a minute.
"The mystery of Dorothy’s missing ruby slippers: Solve it, and you’ll get $1 million"
