Man sentenced to one year in prison for stealing the red shoes from The Wizard of Oz. North Dakota prosecutors estimate the pumps to be worth about $3.5 million.
Dorothy's famous sequined shoes mysteriously disappeared in 2005 from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Then, as if by magic, but above all thanks to the FBI, the precious accessories - one of the four pairs remaining after the filming of the cult 1939 film - reappeared in 2018.. Terry Martin explained that he had stolen the pumps thinking that they were inlaid with real rubies and then sought to sell them on the black market. Over the years, the amount of the bounty offered to find the pumps had soared, with one patron going so far as to offer a million dollars.