Terry Jon Martin, who was charged with stealing a Minnesota museum's ruby slippers featured in “The Wizard of Oz,' plans to plead guilty to the 18-year-long case.
A man charged with the museum heist of a pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the 'The Wizard of Oz' was expected to change his plea to guilty in court Friday, pulling back the curtain on a whodunit mystery dating back 18 years. Terry Jon Martin, 76, was indicted in May on one count of theft of a major artwork. The shoes from the film were stolen in 2005 from the Judy Garland Museum in the actress' hometown of Grand Rapids, Minnesota, and recovered in 2018 by the FBI.
think Terry is facing his own mortality, and I think when people are reaching that point in their life, they cut through the pleasantries and talk turkey,' DeKrey said in an interview ahead of Friday's hearing. The one-page indictment gave no details of the path that led investigators to Martin, who has a 1988 conviction for receiving stolen goods on his record and is free on his own recognizance.
My client is a sick man. He’s going to be on oxygen, and he’s going to be in a wheelchair,' DeKrey said. The slippers in question were on loan to the museum from Hollywood memorabilia collector Michael Shaw when someone climbed through a window and broke the display case. Three other pairs that Garland wore in the movie are held by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Smithsonian Museum of American History and a private collector.
The ruby slippers were key props in the 1939 movie. Following a mysterious landing in the colorful Land of Oz after a tornado hits her farm in Kansas, Garland’s character, Dorothy, has to click the heels of her slippers three times and repeat 'there’s no place like home' to return. The slippers are made from about a dozen different materials, including wood pulp, silk thread, gelatin, plastic and glass.
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Man charged with stealing 'Wizard of Oz' slippers from Minnesota museum expected to plead guiltyA man charged with stealing ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the “The Wizard of Oz” from a Minnesota museum is expected to change his plea to guilty at a court hearing
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Man charged with stealing 'Wizard of Oz' slippers from Minnesota museum expected to plead guiltyA man charged with stealing ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the “The Wizard of Oz” from a Minnesota museum is expected to change his plea to guilty at a court hearing. Seventy-six-year-old Terry Jon Martin was indicted in May on one count of theft of a major artwork and is scheduled to appear in court Friday.
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Man charged with stealing 'Wizard of Oz' slippers from Minnesota museum expected to plead guiltyA man charged with stealing ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the “The Wizard of Oz” from a Minnesota museum is expected to change his plea to guilty at a court hearing.
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Man charged with stealing 'Wizard of Oz' slippers from Minnesota museum expected to plead guiltyA man charged with stealing ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the “The Wizard of Oz” from a Minnesota museum is expected to change his plea to guilty at a court hearing.
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Man charged with stealing 'Wizard of Oz' slippers from Minnesota museum expected to plead guiltyA man charged with stealing ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the “The Wizard of Oz” from a Minnesota museum is expected to change his plea to guilty at a court hearing.
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Man charged with stealing 'Wizard of Oz' slippers from Minnesota museum expected to plead guiltyA man charged with the museum heist of a pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the 'The Wizard of Oz' was expected to change his plea to guilty in court Friday, pulling back the curtain on a whodunnit mystery dating back 18 years.
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