Investigators haven't said whether the slippers were clicked together three times before finding their way home. The FBI has a press conference scheduled for Tuesday afternoon. He sold the pair to Shaw for $2,000, along with one of Dorothy's dresses, a witch's hat and a Munchkin outfit. Walter Dean Myers As a kid I didnt see black cowboys on the screen. In 1970, a costumer named Kent Warner found them and sold off several pairs of the slippers. Walter Dean Myers The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in risking your life for a cause anchored in some distant political arena. The insurance company sued Shaw, the museum and its director to avoid making that payout Newsweek reports the parties settled in 2007, with Shaw receiving $800,000.ĭespite the slippers' evident value and desirability, several pairs sat for years unnoticed in storage on the MGM lot. Minnesota Public Radio says the shoes were insured for $1 million. "Other people speculated that Shaw had paid someone to steal the shoes-perhaps replicas-so that he could collect insurance," according to the magazine. A memorabilia collector named Michael Shaw had loaned the slippers to the museum, which is located in a house where Garland grew up - and he said he was among those questioned by authorities. Neither the Garland museum's alarm system or video surveillance system were working at the time of the 2005 theft, which Newsweek reported led some people to suspect it was an inside job. The Two-Way Save The Ruby Slippers: Smithsonian Seeks Funds To Preserve Dorothy's Shoes
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