{"id":17243,"date":"2023-05-17T03:45:17","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T07:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/?p=17243"},"modified":"2025-09-08T15:30:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T19:30:41","slug":"terry-martin-indicted-in-theft-of-judy-garland-wizard-of-oz-ruby-slippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/terry-martin-indicted-in-theft-of-judy-garland-wizard-of-oz-ruby-slippers\/","title":{"rendered":"Terry Martin indicted in Judy Garland &#8216;Wizard of Oz&#8217; Ruby Slipper theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/RubySlippersMPC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7733\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/RubySlippersMPC-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/RubySlippersMPC-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/RubySlippersMPC-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/RubySlippersMPC.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a>It has been reported by various online outlets that a man named <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>Terry Martin<\/em><\/strong><\/span>, has been indicted by a grand jury on charges of stealing a pair of ruby red slippers worn by <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em>Judy Garland<\/em><\/strong><\/span> in \u201c<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><em>The Wizard of Oz<\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u201d (1939). The shoes were stolen in 2005 and recovered in a 2018 FBI sting operation yet at the time, no arrests were made. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>Movie Prop Collectors<\/em><\/strong><\/a> covered the story in 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/2018\/09\/04\/fbi-stolen-wizard-oz-ruby-slippers-found\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk yuUa lqtk TjIX aGjv\">Mr. Martin was indicted Tuesday with one count of theft of a major artwork, prosecutors announced early today.<\/p>\n<p>The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported that Martin age 76, lives 12 miles south of the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>The initial court appearance is set for June 1 and is to take place via video.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the original 2018 FBI video announcement on finding the iconic film artifacts:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FBI press conference on Michael Shaw Stolen Ruby Slippers from The Wizard of Oz\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-eNcZJR_mY8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><template data-arve_cachetime=\"2025-09-08T19:09:55-04:00\" data-arve_iframe_src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-eNcZJR_mY8?feature=oembed\" data-arve_url=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/-eNcZJR_mY8\" data-author_name=\"Movie Prop Collector\" data-author_url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@MoviePropCollector\" data-height=\"281\" data-provider=\"youtube\" data-provider_name=\"YouTube\" data-provider_url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" data-thumbnail_height=\"360\" data-thumbnail_url=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/-eNcZJR_mY8\/hqdefault.jpg\" data-thumbnail_width=\"480\" data-title=\"FBI press conference on Michael Shaw Stolen Ruby Slippers from The Wizard of Oz\" data-type=\"video\" data-version=\"1.0\" data-width=\"500\" class=\"arve-data\"><\/template><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<iframe id=\"basic_facebook_social_plugins_likebutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.moviepropcollectors.com%2Fmagazine%2Fterry-martin-indicted-in-theft-of-judy-garland-wizard-of-oz-ruby-slippers%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=&amp;action=like&amp;font=arial&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:px; height:25px\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It has been reported by various online outlets that a man named Terry Martin, has been indicted by a grand jury on charges of stealing a pair of ruby red slippers worn by Judy Garland in \u201cThe Wizard of Oz\u201d (1939). The shoes were stolen in 2005 and recovered in a 2018 FBI sting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,9,1,10],"tags":[155,69,153,23,61,24,152,151,154,68],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-17243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-highlights","category-news","category-past-articles","tag-fbi","tag-judy-garland","tag-man-charged","tag-movie-prop","tag-movie-prop-collectors","tag-movie-props","tag-ruby-slippers-found","tag-ruby-slippers-stolen","tag-terry-martin","tag-wizard-of-oz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17243"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17248,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17243\/revisions\/17248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17243"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=17243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}