Man indicted for stealing 'Wizard of Oz' ruby slippers from Minnesota museum
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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,” federal prosecutors in North Dakota say. The shoes were stolen in 2005 and recovered by a 2018 FBI sting operation, but no arrests were made at the time.
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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,” federal prosecutors in North Dakota say. The shoes were stolen in 2005 and recovered by a 2018 FBI sting operation, but no arrests were made at the time.
The iconic ruby slippers were stolen from the Judy Garland Museum in 2005 and recovered in a sting operation 13 years later, but there had been no arrests.
The slippers were recovered in 2018 after mysteriously disappearing in 2005 from the Judy Garland Museum, but the feds knew they weren’t carried off by flying monkeys.
There’s no place like prison? A federal grand jury today indicted a man in the 2005 theft of a pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz. Terry Martin is charged with one…
A man has been charged with stealing the iconic ruby slippers from "The Wizard of Oz" from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids more than 15 years ago.
The indictment alleges that in 2005, Terry Martin stole an authentic pair of shoes that Garland’s character, Dorothy, wore in the 1939 MGM musical. The FBI recovered the slippers in a sting operation in 2018.
By Tina Burnside and Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — US authorities have charged a man in connection with the theft of a pair of ruby red slippers worn by actress Judy Garland as Dorothy in the 1939 classic movie “The Wizard of Oz” nearly 20 years after they were stolen from a museum in Minnesota.
A Minnesota man has been indicted on charges that he stole a pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in “The Wizard of Oz,” from a museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, nearly 18 years ago.
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," federal prosecutors in North Dakota say. The shoes were stolen in 2005 and recovered in a 2018 FBI sting operation, but no arrests were made at the time.
Terry Jon Martin was charged in U.S. District Court in Minnesota with stealing a pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the 1939 movie "The Wizard of Oz."
The case stumped law enforcement for years, despite conducting multiple interviews and identifying suspects. The pair of shoes now rests in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
A man was charged with allegedly stealing the iconic pair of ruby red slippers worn by Judy Garland in the movie “The Wizard of Oz” — a bizarre crime nearly two decades in the making, federal autho…
