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Art thieves caught after Googling the stolen art pieces' author

4 pointsby msantosover 10 years ago

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msantosover 10 years ago
TL,DR;<p><i>“I outsmarted the guy,” Gundlach [the art collection owner] says about the theft. “I figured out that he was a street criminal who didn’t know anything about art because of what he took, and I figured out that sooner or later he would Google the signatures of all the artists.”</i><p><i>&quot;According to Gundlach, his Google theory led law enforcement authorities to the only other person in the area who conducted an Internet search for his grandmother’s name after the heist. The thief was arrested and all of Gundlach’s paintings–including Johns’ “Green Target”–were recovered.</i>