Er wordt gezegd dat de beroemde rode schoentjes uit The Wizard of Oz de heilige graal van Hollywood-memorabilia zijn, de waarde wordt geschat op enkele miljoenen. Er zijn voor zover bekend vier paar schoenen; twee bevinden zich in musea en twee bij privé-verzamelaars. Een van die verzamelaars leende in 2005 zijn paar aan het Judy Garland museum in Grand Rapids, waar ze vervolgens werden gestolen. In de vijfdelige podcast No Place Like Home wordt niet alleen de diefstal onderzocht, maar ook het leven van Judy Garland, de relatie tussen haar en het dorpje Grand Rapids waar ze vandaan kwam, en de tamelijk eigenaardige wereld van Hollywood-memorabiliaverzamelaars vol roddel en afgunst.
Do you remember the first time you watched The Wizard of Oz? The familiar pair of red shoes that sparkle as Dorothy skips down the yellow brick road, a rare collector’s item worth millions. In the summer of 2005, a pair was stolen from the Judy Garland Museum in the small town of Grand Rapids, Minnesota. No Place Like Home follows a classic heist story against the nostalgic backdrop of one of the most famous movies and Hollywood props of all time. Journalist Ariel Ramchandani and editor Seyward Darby investigate the strange story that dives into small town suspicions between local cops and the FBI, the fraught relationship between Grand Rapids and its most famous daughter, Judy Garland, and brings listeners inside the peculiar world of Hollywood memorabilia and the market for lost and stolen art. Although the shoes were eventually recovered, there are more questions left than answers. We still don’t know who stole the shoes and where they were hiding for nearly 13 years.
No Place Like Home is an Audacy original.
On September 3, 2018, a rancher in Laredo, Texas, discovered a woman’s body shot execution-style on the side of the road. When investigators identified her as a local sex worker, their search for the killer took them into the darkest corners of the city. Then, after days of false starts and dead-ends, another body turned up, terrifying residents and leading law enforcement to conclude a serial killer is at large. More would die before a survivor finally came forward and identified the killer… but his motives proved as confounding as his crimes.
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