Dorothy's famous sequined shoes mysteriously disappeared in 2005 from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Terry Martin said he stole the pumps thinking they were encrusted with real rubies and then sought to sell them on the black market.
Aged 76, he will remain on parole due to his state of health, the man being hospitalized in palliative care and having only six months to live. Prosecutors had not requested a prison sentence against him, the individual having appeared in court in a wheelchair with an oxygen tank.