255 - The Transy Book Heist
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Do Go On
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History
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Publication Date |
Sep 09, 2020
Episode Duration |
02:30:43

On the 17th of December, 2004, Transylvania University librarian Betty Jean Gooch was waiting for her meeting with a man named Walter Beckman - within hours, a crime was committed that is now listed among the F.B.I.’s all-time most significant art-theft cases... it was also one of the most bungled. Listen to hear what went down!

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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:

https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/02/transy-book-heist

https://web.archive.org/web/20110210225111/http://transy.edu/about/name.htm

https://people.com/movies/true-story-behind-american-animals/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Animals

https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/crime/article212180224.html


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