She Walked In: How an Appraiser Stole a Museum Masterpiece
She Walked In: How an Appraiser Stole a Museum Masterpiece
The museum's DVR dropped a forty-minute window and a missing masterpiece was found in an evidence locker twelve days later - but no one broke in. A former commercial art appraiser spent eighteen months building a fake social life, commissioned a perfect copy, and walked through the front door during a heritage dinner; how did she turn intimate knowledge of a failing security system into a clean theft?
In this episode, we trace the sequence of events from the appraiser’s research to the night the painting disappeared, detailing the…
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