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.
A pair of ruby slippers once worn by actress Judy Garland in the"The Wizard of Oz" sit on display at a news conference on Sept. 4, 2018, at the FBI office in Minnesota.A man charged with the museum heist of a pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the "The Wizard of Oz" pleaded guilty Friday, pulling back the curtain on a whodunit mystery dating back 18 years.
"I 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. The FBI said a man approached the insurer in 2017 and said he could help get them back. The slippers were recovered in an FBI art crime team sting operation in Minneapolis. They remained in the bureau's custody.
Video posted by WCCO-TV showed Martin entering the courthouse in a wheelchair with an oxygen tank between his legs, wearing a paper mask. 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.
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