She Was Just A Meter Reader - She Found a Stolen Masterpiece
She Was Just A Meter Reader - She Found a Stolen Masterpiece
You feel the chill when something meant to be secure is not - a $14,000 regional painting disappeared for nearly twelve months, then a meter reader found a convincing reproduction leaning against a cinder-block wall in a gravel alley; how could nobody in the museum notice for a year and what snapped the scheme open? Who had the access, the motive, and the timing to swap an original for a fake and leave it in plain sight?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of discoveries starting with a photograph taken by a meter reader and…
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