Dressed for success in a tailored dark-blue suit his parents had bought for special occasions and future job interviews, Warren cultivated the young-conservative look, using a Windsor knot on his red tie and giving his wing tips a last-minute buff. If we go in there theyre not going to suspect that we stole these. He was also less cordial and more agitated in person, asking Gooch soon after arriving if he could invite a friend along to see the books. from an unsuspecting friend and got his hands on zip ties, a wool cap, electrician's tape, and bedsheets. One evening it occurred to Spencer that they had used the Walter Beckman Yahoo account to contact both Christies and Gooch. They think we have [the books]. They all pled guilty to federal charges of robbery and. Warren jumped at the opportunity and recruited another adrift freshman, his old high-school soccer teammate Eric Borsuk, as a partner. It'll show up on your profile and if approved, on this page. Around Halloween, Warren drafted a working plan, which he presented to the other three in the basement. Spencers journey as an aspiring artist may at first appear wholly inimical to achieving that end, though significantly the challenges he faced are far from unique to most aspiring artists. By one oclock that afternoon, the 227-year-old liberal-arts college was swarming with campus police, uniformed Lexington Police, plainclothes detectives, and forensic teams, as well as local news crews covering the developing Transy Book Heist, a crime that would one day be listed among the F.B.I.s all-time most significant art-theft cases. He also didn't have photos, photocopies, documentation, or even the slightest ability to intelligently discuss the books. As they ran, they stumbled again into Chas, who had returned in another car as promised, just in time to save them and drive Eric to U.K. for his tennis-class exam. The story behind their motiveand how they got caught. "It's often considered a mistake in the art world to have multiple styles, but I have to go wherever my inspiration takes me. He looked like he was dressed from a thrift store, Halloran told the agents. Warren called me one night and hes like, We need to get together. My world view actually expanded. The severity of the requested sentences was predicated on the dual propositions that, although the Audubon volumes had never been physically removed from the library, according to the letter of the law they were nonetheless stolenincreasing the monetary value of the crimeand that the Black Cobra Stun Pen used to subdue B. J. Gooch not only inflicted physical harm but was in actuality a dangerous weapon. Worse still for the defendants, B. J. Gooch's ordeal had become a cause clbre among librarians, many of whom wrote letters to the judge arguing against leniency. In a duffel bag by his bed an F.B.I. The three then take the staff-only elevator down to the bottom floor and escape out the west fire exit. Spencer was arrested in a simultaneous raid on his dorm room at Transy. He said, You do that and you are free then to give them to us when you can. O.K., great. These peoples perspectives, because they have money, theyre tweaked., In October of his freshman year, Warren quit the U.K. soccer team, forfeiting his scholarship. They also did considerable research on the Internet, using such key terms as auction house appraisals, stun guns, and Swiss bank accounts. For inspiration, they watched heist movies like Ocean's 11 and Snatch. received two additional pieces of evidence from Christie's: security-camera footage of the meeting and a cell-phone number the men had left behind. computers in the Lexington field office. (Having seen their fair share of heist movies, they knew how dangerous it was to leave a paper trail.) Despite the differing temperamentsand the disapproval of Spencers parentsthe two were best friends from the age of eight, a friendship that revolved largely around soccer. Spencer assembled his outfit with even greater care. We had a few pitchers, feeling each other out. Darren Matthews. Though she couldn't recall much else about her assailants, one odd detail stood out. The reaction to the plan was generally positiveshortly after Thanksgiving, they moved forward. After a brief discussion they chose Chas Allen, a handsome, clean-cut U.K. business major who had started the lawn-care company with Eric the previous summer. Near the boiler he also jerry-rigged a greenhouse for growing marijuana. I'm not sure, but it was a lot. is parked in front of the library and the four are in 1st Position at bottom of stairs of library.. We did the robbery as a way to escape, Eric says. Chas turned the G.T.A.V. Eric dropped the books, and he and Warren made a run for it. She described one of the young men as about six feet tall, with bleached-blond hair, well dressed in a nice suit, and very talkative. Photographed by Nan Goldin at the tender age of 19, just about to release his Tony Richardson film. During a meeting in the basement, Warren convinced the other two that they were going to need a fourth, principally to help haul the nearly 250 pounds in Audubon folios out of the library. In the weeks following the book heist, law enforcement followed leads at Transy and reviewed countless hours of security footage from the U.K. computer lab, to which a police technician had traced the e-mail from Walter Beckman to Gooch. Having told their parents that they were going on a ski trip to West Virginia, that weekend they loaded the loot into Eric's Ford Explorer and took off on the 12-hour drive to New York for their Christie's appointment. American Animals, the 2018 biopic, written and directed by The Tinder Swindlers Bart Layton, is an acclaimed cinematic account of a younger Reinhard, a then Transylvania University junior whose plot to steal one of the rarest of US art history titles naturalist icon John James Audubons 1827 tome Birds of America as well as a first-edition Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin - led to guilty pleas from Reinhard and three chums, who paid the price: seven-year convictions across the board. [Beckman] said, B.J., a nickname her friends and colleagues used for her, she told officers. For one, its cheaper, and this allowed me to work less and spend more time with my young daughter. He was visibly unnerved, Warren remembers. Each has a different style of facial hairmuttonchops (Lipka), a Fu Manchu (Borsuk), a Tom Selleck (Reinhard)which Lipka informs me they had carefully trimmed for my visit. On the morning of December 16, Warrens carefully scripted plan began to unravel almost immediately. Indeed one might consider these years to be a catalyst with which he could find his unique vision. Late one Thursday afternoon in mid-February, the two friends bought a bag of weed and drove the 700 miles to Manhattan in Spencers Acura Legend. The contact, who identified himself only as Barry, stipulated that Warren had to bring $500 in good-faith money. Because their campuses were only a mile apart, they assumed they would stay close, but as with most freshmen, their assured identities and easy expectations muddied once they hit campus. Faced with overwhelming evidence, they all eventually confessed. . Chas cursed Warren as an incompetent, and condemned the other two as burnouts, demanding that the three figure out a way to get the books appraised so they could move on to the next phase of the plan. It didn't take long to tie in Eric and Chas. Warren and Eric got out of the G.T.A.V. In the early evening, they say they smoked some celebratory Kentucky Bluegrass weed they had stashed away for the occasion. Its often considered a mistake in the art world to have multiple styles, but I have to go wherever my inspiration takes me. The F.B.I. Across town at U.K., in a towering cinder-block dorm, Warrens world was spinning apart at a much faster clip. So I walk off happy, come back to the States, and blow Spencers mind.. A painting by Reinhard, a gifted artist, may offer some clues. He took a cab to Dam Square, an old hippie hangout in the center of the city he had read about on the Internet. To be such a big part of her life has been a joy. Writing from walter.beckman@yahoo.com, Warren sent B. J. Gooch an e-mail confirming Beckman's December 16 appointment at the Rare Book Room to view the Audubons and a few other items. Us three, we were much thicker than he was.) And what Chas likely didnt know was that, for Warren, Eric, and Spencer, the actual appraisal and sale of the stolen books had become irrelevant to the mission. More important, the basement was secluded. Realizing that the only way out was through the main floor, they took the elevator up once again and carried the books into a back stairwell that led to another exit. The partnership flourished, with Warren as the face of the operation and Eric in charge of ID production, until the two had an argument over $2,000 that went missing from Erics drawer. very unofficial.. When I get up there, B.J. Spencer, meanwhile, was short, wiry, distant, and in many ways Warrens opposite: an over-scheduled, over-achieving, diamond-tipped drill of a kid who excelled at whatever he set himself to. They also noticed a group of people lingering in the Rare Book Room. Handwriting can be an important piece of evidence in a criminal investigation. Frank Spencer Broker at Keller Williams Realty Published Feb 20, 2017 + Follow This past week we held a training outlining the 21 . notified all the airports in the area, dispatched officers to surrounding neighborhoods, and called the F.B.I. Chas promised to return to pick them up in another car after dropping the minivan off at his moms house. He thought he was much better than everybody else, and he got to the point where he wasnt like us. Around Halloween, Warren drafted a working plan, which he presented to the other three in the basement. In fact, wedged in their backpacks was nearly three-quarters of a million dollars' worth of books and manuscripts: an 1859 first edition of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection ($25,000), an illuminated manuscript from 1425 ($200,000), a set of the two-volume 15th-century horticultural masterpiece entitled Hortus Sanitatis ($450,000), 20 original Audubon pencil drawings ($50,000), and Audubon's A Synopsis of the Birds of North America ($10,000). Like, they were doing something serious, talking about the heist, going over the plan, and somebody would make a joke. 1.7K Followers. Abstraction allows me to explore multiple paths of my creative desire. and Lexington police put the pair under surveillance. The thieves left no fingerprints behind, and there were almost no witnesses. Eric had propped the folios on the steps with his foot when the librarian appeared at the top of the stairs, beside herself with rage after finding Gooch hog-tied in the Rare Book Room. And then they came up with the issue of getting these appraised. Now we cant ever go back there. Seeing something in the wayward Warren, the preppy grifter pitched him the idea of selling fake Kentucky driver's licenses in the U.K. dorms. LET'S START WITH 10 DAYS OF . Nothing like a six year prison sentence to get the creative juices flowing. His malaise was likely exacerbated by his parents' impending divorce amid his mother's allegations that his father, Big Warren, the celebrated coach of the university's women's soccer team, had gambled the family into bankruptcy. That night Chas snapped, they say, fearing the Christie's book appraisalthe Jesus bolt holding Warren's entire heist plan togetherwas in danger of falling through. Seeing something in the wayward Warren, the preppy grifter pitched him the idea of selling fake Kentucky drivers licenses in the U.K. dorms. The painting, in digital form, would become a popular screen saver on the F.B.I. When Warren arrived, he saw a man fitting that description seated with three other men. We told B.J. See, we have no choice now but to create something new, someplace else. In fact, they all tell me that as the planning picked up in the months before the heist, the three of them came to believe that it was their best and perhaps last chance to create a viable life for themselves after college. Can't have any of this documented. In fact, wedged in their backpacks was nearly three-quarters of a million dollars worth of books and manuscripts: an 1859 first edition of Charles Darwins On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection ($25,000), an illuminated manuscript from 1425 ($200,000), a set of the two-volume 15th-century horticultural masterpiece entitled Hortus Sanitatis ($450,000), 20 original Audubon pencil drawings ($50,000), and Audubons A Synopsis of the Birds of North America ($10,000). They were skeptical, Warren recalls. The press invariably described them as good boys from good familiesupper-middle-class kids afforded every opportunity, the ones with the most to lose. Honored to share the PRHBTN fest with you - your mural being the main attraction of course. Writing from walter.beckman@yahoo.com, Warren sent B. J. Gooch an e-mail confirming Beckmans December 16 appointment at the Rare Book Room to view the Audubons and a few other items. Eric and Chas dropped Warren and Spencer off around the corner from Christies. and local detectives. At only $200 a month, the price was right, as Warren was broke after having shut down his and Spencer's fake-ID business and dropping out of U.K. for the semester to focus full-time on the heist. In the morning, Warren says, he left two messages with Leckeys secretary and two more that afternoon. Id heard about them before, but I didnt know anything about them. In the fall of 2004, Warren Lipka moved into the unfinished basement. When she asked for contact information, Spencer gave her his cell-phone number. Spencer, meanwhile, was accepted to Transylvania on an arts scholarship, his sights firmly set on a career in graphic design. The boys readily agreed, and she escorted them through the offices to a small conference room. Suddenly without Eric's mock-ups, software, and equipment, Warren thought of Spencer. That was the plan. Returning five minutes later with a rolling red suitcase in tow, Spencer opened it on the conference table. He said his name was John. No response. Limited means forced my creativity into new areas. Built over old tobacco fields in the 80s, they feature ponds with fountains, cookie-cutter brick Colonial houses, street names like Ironbridge Drive and Turnberry Lane, and regulations authorizing penalties for unkempt yards and tacky lawn Santas. The meeting ended after 30 minutes, and Ms. Halloran escorted the two out, assuring them that shed be in touch after conferring with her superiors on the best way forward. I know the collection is extensive and anything you think I might be interested in seeing, by all means, share, he wrote. Spencer assembled a small wardrobe of fake beards, gray wigs, and costume glue. Warren was already busily working out the problem, returning for advice to his underworld contact: What if we had some artwork that we wanted to sell? Warren remembers asking him. The truth is, but for one obvious, big mistakethe trip to Christiesthey probably would have gotten away with it, a Lexington police detective told me. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. In high school, Warren, a lanky six-footer with a mop of brown hair, was a popular jock and a class clown who delighted his classmates by bear-hugging his nemesis, the dean of students, at graduation. When Eric let him in on the plan, Chas mocked the three as deluded potheads, he recalls. For footwear he went with clean white sneakers. Wedged in among the other houses on Beaumont Avenue, a quiet residential street near the U.K. campus, is a beaten-down yellow cinder-block bungalow, with two bedrooms on the second floor and two on the first. He said, You do that and you are free then to give them to us when you can. O.K., great. Dressed for success in a tailored dark-blue suit his parents had bought for special occasions and future job interviews, Warren cultivated the young-conservative look, using a Windsor knot on his red tie and giving his wing tips a last-minute buff. detective says. The books were much heavier than the boys had projected, and the pair could handle only three at a time. He focused above all on painting, gaining admission into a prestigious Lexington arts program. Warren had been convinced after spotting a suspicious man loitering near the yellow bungalowwhen he stepped outside, the man disappeared into an unmarked white van with tinted windows and sped off. A witness had written down a license-plate number, but it was way off. Waiting for the law to snatch them was nerve-racking, but they went on with their lives as if nothing had been amiss. They said that this set, Birds of America, sold for $12 million. I said, Twelve million dollars, just sitting there? After researching auction houses online, Warren singled out Christie's in New York. They checked into the Hilton Hotel in Midtown, Warren signing in under the nom de guerre Harry Ballsania name backed up with one of their fake Kentucky driver's licensesand paying in cash. With each taking one end of the Audubons, they made their way to the staff-only elevator. She described one of the young men as about six feet tall, with bleached-blond hair, well dressed in a nice suit, and very talkative. Warren called Gooch back to change Walter Beckmans appointment to three P.M. On the morning of December 16, Warrens carefully scripted plan began to unravel almost immediately. A 20-man task force of Lexington police and F.B.I. By far the most common theory around town was that the heist had been just a frat prank that spun way out of control. Because no one would go to Christies with stolen books to get them appraisedthats how we did a lot of stuff, like, we would smoke weed directly under the [security] camera on the Transy campus, park a car right underneath it and then smoke for like an hour. If not, we were going to get caught and it was going to be a crazy story., And now that weve diverted from that path, we feel liberated, Warren tells me, waving his arms around the room. Faced with overwhelming evidence, they all eventually confessed. The two boys sought cover from the cops in the sprawling grounds of the housing projects. But before long they were put to chase once again, this time by two local thugs. After the Halloran interview the F.B.I. from an unsuspecting friend and got his hands on zip ties, a wool cap, electricians tape, and bedsheets. Though she couldnt recall much else about her assailants, one odd detail stood out. When not at practice, Warren spent his time smoking pot, watching Comedy Central, and reading German philosophy. Warren and Chas go up to the Rare Book Room, on the third floor, and Warren brings Gooch down hard and fast with a stun gun, making her a non-factor throughout the operation. Warren and Chas then let Eric in and they begin wrapping the Audubons in bedsheets and put any smaller books in backpacks. No response. All rights reserved. Spencer called himself Mr. Stephens. Pink, in this case to Chas. It had been agreed that Warren, with his smooth talk, and Spencer, with his artistic knowledge, would go to the meeting. In early 2006, they began serving their sentences in federal prison, with no possibility for parole. Ezra Millers Messiah Delusions: Inside. (The librarian who chased them out of the library did tell police the correct total of four thieves, even though she had seen only three.) The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. As she was heading toward a display case, Gooch felt a tingling on her right arm and collapsed to the floor. Slattery was arrested and convicted of one successful and two attempted robberies. In between soccer practice, classes, painting, and studying, Spencer drew detailed sketches of the inside of the Special Collections Library and the adjacent Rare Book Room, making several appointments with the Special Collections librarian, Betty Jean Gooch, to scout the premises. Spencer would communicate with Warren from a cell phone, which Warren would steal from a student in the morning. Oh, yeah, he almost got shot, says Eric, laughing. Back at Warrens that afternoon, the boys were transfixed by local coverage of the Transy Book Heist.. A 20-man task force of Lexington police and F.B.I. I know the collection is extensive and anything you think I might be interested in seeing, by all means, share, he wrote. into a perfect parking space and watched as Eric and Warren entered the library. For footwear he went with clean white sneakers. The partnership flourished, with Warren as the face of the operation and Eric in charge of ID production, until the two had an argument over $2,000 that went missing from Eric's drawer. To have time to properly apply the disguises, he tried to reschedule his art-history final for later in the day on the 16th, but was unsuccessful. Meanwhile, Eric lined up the G.T.A.V. Improvising on the plan, he kicked Eric and Warren out on the street, believing three men in a gray minivan would draw too much attention. Now we can't ever go back there. As she inspected the items, Halloran dutifully took notes, then asked a few questions regarding their provenance, which Spencer answered as best he could under the circumstances. The meeting initially hit a snag when Barry was put off by the boys youth. During their sentencing hearing, in December 2005, the federal prosecutor asked for 11 to 14 years each for Eric, Chas, and Spencer, and 14 to 17 years for Warren, deeming him the leader, organizer, and recruiter. In fact, they all tell me that as the planning picked up in the months before the heist, the three of them came to believe that it was their best and perhaps last chance to create a viable life for themselves after college. It was hard for us. (Throughout the interviews with the three, it became clear that Chas was the odd man out among the group. 214 E Main StLexington, KY United States 40507, (Shift + Enter to play/pause. Improvising on the plan, he kicked Eric and Warren out on the street, believing three men in a gray minivan would draw too much attention. He topped off his new living quarters with the last of his worldly belongings: a large-screen television, a DVD player, and a Sony PlayStation. The banality of assessments, passing courses for the sake of progression and limited intellectual stimulation meant that Spencers time at university was far removed from his hoped for experience. Undeterred, Warren introduced himself as Terry, firmly shaking hands before sitting down. A witness had written down a license-plate number, but it was way off. Bam. He loved that it had been made the screen saver on the F.B.I. 2023 Cond Nast. What I found incredibly valuable about prison was the multiculturalism. notified all the airports in the area, dispatched officers to surrounding neighborhoods, and called the F.B.I. Like Barry, the men were immediately put off by Warren's youth, and even more so by the fact that he hadn't brought any of the books with him to Amsterdam. In all my art classes I was the only guyin with a bunch of girls who didn't have any idea what they wanted to do. They also noticed a group of people lingering in the Rare Book Room. Warren made an appraisal appointment at Christie's in New York for Walter Beckman, a pseudonym inspired by the soccer star David Beckham. and having to sign a fucking book. By hitting the ball back into Warrens court, Spencer thought he would keep that thrilling flicker of criminality burning for a bit longer, while fully expecting there to be an insurmountable obstacle somewhere down the road. He was told to look for a bearded, heavyset man in a solid-blue sweater. Not what I expected, not what I wanted it to be, Warren says. Sign up for The Gleaners morning and evening newsletters. They surveyed the offices of the campus police. It was the sense of redemption that I hadnt anticipated. He feared being restricted in any way. I was in interaction with people from nearly every country in the Americas, he reflected on the time spent between prisons in Kentucky and Texas. We spoke about his paintings, especially A Plan to Fail. She offered to take his place. 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