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
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Animals
https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/crime/article212180224.html
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