Get the latest chatter, from Kensington Palace and beyond, straight to your inbox. It was just funny because we've been in a lot of places that they've been, Eric says. I was surprised he didnt.. [This librarian] doesn't know what we're carrying, but she's like, Where did these kids come from? Eric says. They think we have [the books]. Cops entered the basement, a dank pit reeking of marijuana, and found Warren sprawled out on a mattress. 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. 's all-time most significant art-theft cases. We will be stronger, better, wiser for going through this together, the three of us. He was still enrolled, but only nominally, and remained on the fringes of campus life. Afterward, they returned to the Hilton for an early night. When summer break began, the three returned home to the subdivisions of South Lexington. The whole operation would have to be completed by 12:30 P.M., as the boys say Chas needed to return the Dodge Caravan to his mother in time for her to sell it, and Spencer and Eric had to get to their final exams in sociology and tennis, respectively. 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 drivers licensesand paying in cash. That night they had dinner at a Japanese restaurant, followed by drinks at the hotel bar, where Warren chummed up to an Iraq veteran, Spencer almost started a brawl after knocking a table full of drinks over, and Eric picked up a middle-aged Brazilian tourist. When summer break began, the three returned home to the subdivisions of South Lexington. All four were brought to Lexington police headquarters and individually interrogated by F.B.I. 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. After the Halloran interview the F.B.I. In the early evening, they say they smoked some celebratory Kentucky Bluegrass weed they had stashed away for the occasion. I was kind of skeptical, continues Spencer, but the way I rationalized it was: it's the biggest auction house. According to the revised plan, they would ditch the old-man disguises and only Warren and Eric would enter the library. A painting by Reinhard, a gifted artist, may offer some clues. Ultimately, upon release, his art career has flourished. Inside were the books, wrapped in sheets and pillowcases. Frightened and alone in an unfriendly neighborhood and weighed down with priceless books, Warren and Eric barreled down the street, frantically trying to hail a police cruiser to rescue them. The books were much heavier than the boys had projected, and the pair could handle only three at a time. The set was one of fewer than 200 produced. Chas promised to return to pick them up in another car after dropping the minivan off at his mom's house. They got security around that? Warren asked Spencer. What I found incredibly valuable about prison was the multiculturalism. During our interview Eric told me, He was like just a weight on us. Gooch agreed to reschedule for 11 the next morning. notified all the airports in the area, dispatched officers to surrounding neighborhoods, and called the F.B.I. See, we have no choice now but to create something new, someplace else. I'm expecting when I get up there it's going to be taken care of and I'm just going to start lifting books. (Spencer had had to do a rush job on them because his art-history final had run long.) Phase 1 begins at the bungalow when all four get into what Warren designated the G.T.A.V., or the Go-to-and-Away-Vehicle, all disguised as old men. Spencer called himself Mr. Stephens. It didnt take long to tie in Eric and Chas. American Animals is a 2018 heist film written and directed by Bart Layton.Starring Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan, Blake Jenner, Jared Abrahamson, and Ann Dowd, it follows four college friends who plan a heist of their library.It tells the story of an actual heist which took place at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky in 2004.. American Animals premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film . After the Halloran interview the F.B.I. We're going to need more people, Warren remembers thinking. Warren had run up the side of the hill and frantically ran off. The meeting initially hit a snag when Barry was put off by the boys' youth. He took a cab to Dam Square, an old hippie hangout in the center of the city he had read about on the Internet. as we left we were going to make an anonymous phone call so they knew she was up here, Eric continues. In terms of the dollar amount involved and the extraordinary circumstances, the theft was one of the most significant in its history. [Warren's] like, Come on up, Eric remembers. See, we have no choice now but to create something new, someplace else. He said, You do that and you are free then to give them to us when you can. O.K., great. If you were referring only to my paintings featuring birds, I would say its my ability to render the birds accurately, but in a way that gives them personality.. Eric couldnt get hold of his friends car, leaving Chas to borrow a Dodge Caravan his mother was fortuitously selling the next day, the boys say. from an unsuspecting friend and got his hands on zip ties, a wool cap, electricians tape, and bedsheets. He focused above all on painting, gaining admission into a prestigious Lexington arts program. The next day, they worked off their hangovers by checking out Ground Zero before strolling into the bustle of Chinatown for lunch. Still shaken from her ordeal, Gooch, in her 50s, told police that shortly after entering the Rare Book Room with the two men she had been struck on the arm with a Taserlike weapon, her hands and feet were bound with zip ties, and a wool cap was pulled over her eyes. On the morning of December 16, Warrens carefully scripted plan began to unravel almost immediately. (Big Warren declined to comment on the gambling accusations at the time.) Between studying for his first semester's finals, working out, and painting, Spencer made time to scope out the Special Collections section of the Transy library, reporting back to Warren weeks later that there was zero security other than an old lady librarian named B.J. Although the two hadnt really been in contact in the first few months of school, Warren knew that Spencers artistic talents would be an asset. So we would see parts like that and we would be Oh, this is just like us. Little did the three know that F.B.I. A 20-man task force of Lexington police and F.B.I. So we ate at Pazzos pizza pub. More important, the basement was secluded. When Eric let him in on the plan, Chas mocked the three as deluded potheads, he recalls. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. In the fall of 2003, Warren left for the University of Kentucky on a full athletic scholarship, eager to take his game to the next level, and with vague plans of getting into politics. . Two months later, amid a local media frenzy, the four formally pleaded guilty to all six federal charges, including theft of cultural artifacts from a public museum and interstate transportation of stolen property. Spencer, feeling increasingly disaffected with school life himself, readily accepted the offer. 2021 Spencer Reinhard all rights reserved. We figured the more obvious [we were], the less likely [we would be suspected]., As it was already nearing the end of the school year, and there was a lot of planning yet to be done, they agreed to postpone the theft until at least the fall. The untold story of the Transy Book Heist is one part Ocean's 11, one part Harold & Kumar: four Kentucky college kids who had millions to gain and nothing to lose. It was only a tennis final, Eric says, but that final that day was actually harder than I thought it was going to be. The others spent time in the library, too, taking notes on staff routines and viable escape routes. Back at Warrens later that afternoon, the boys were transfixed by local coverage of the Transy Book Heist. According to the news, it appeared that neither Gooch nor anyone else was able to provide the police with an accurate description of the boys. Once Warren had pulled the cap over Gooch's eyes, the two laid a bedsheet on the ground and began piling on the seven Audubon folios they intended to steal (the four-volume Birds of America plus three volumes from another Audubon series). It was during his studies at Transylvania University that Spencer became aware of John James Audubons work, The Birds of America. Warren and Eric got out of the G.T.A.V. We can never go back if we wanted toI would rather have not been busted, but all I can say is it feels right in here, and before, in college, it just never did., I remember talking to Eric and Warren one day and I was like, So what, they're going to put us in jail, says Spencer. None the less, still super stoked Lex Art League accepted 3 of my artworks. New film American Animals tells the story of one of the most audacious heists in U.S. history when three well off friends Spencer Reinhard, Warren Lipka, Eric Borsuk and Chas Allen decided to try . He feared being restricted in any way. 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. I love that my kids will grow up seeing both worlds and experiencing both cultures. . I know the collection is extensive and anything you think I might be interested in seeing, by all means, share, he wrote. Waiting for the law to snatch them was nerve-racking, but they went on with their lives as if nothing had been amiss. Seeing something in the wayward Warren, the preppy grifter pitched him the idea of selling fake Kentucky drivers licenses in the U.K. dorms. 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. By signing up you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. Leave a message. A Google search of Spencer Reinhard brought up numerous hits for soccer in the Lexington area. 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. is parked in front of the library and the four are in 1st Position at bottom of stairs of library.. Shop - Spencer Reinhard A selection of some of my works available in limited edition print. What they would tell me, then, is their version of eventsand the only complete account of the planning, execution, and aftermath of the heist. So we go back to the guy in Lexington and we say, Listen, we want to go somewhere, we want to go out of the country, and we need documentation, Warren explains. We can do a license, but now we need a passport. So he says, Come see me in a couple of days or a week, but I need money, $2,500. All right, you know, just another thing, O.K., 2,500 bucks. Again, Warren thought otherwise. The press invariably described them as good boys from good familiesupper-middle-class kids afforded every opportunity, the ones with the most to lose. Among them was the 2002 photo from the Lexington Herald-Leader of Spencer and Warren playing soccer. [This librarian] doesnt know what were carrying, but shes like, Where did these kids come from? Eric says. Pink, in this case to Chas. Limited means forced my creativity into new areas. On the second-floor landing, Chas, in high-end flannel pajamas and thinking they were being robbed, pulled out a derringer, only to drop the weapon at the last moment. 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. (Throughout the interviews with the three, it became clear that Chas was the odd man out among the group. Late one Thursday afternoon in mid-February, the two friends bought a bag of weed and drove the 700 miles to Manhattan in Spencer's Acura Legend. When they arrived on campus in the replacement G.T.A.V., they couldn't find a parking space anywhere near the library. She offered to take his place. Oct 16, 2018. The meeting initially hit a snag when Barry was put off by the boys youth. The painting is a kaleidoscope of images, including what appears to be a computer, a cell phone, a bong, the Transylvania library, and loose sheets of notepaper, floating above a desiccated one-eyed young man in a watch cap, kicking back on a beat-up couch with a blue dog on his lap. His clumsy attempt to clear his name, in a no-holds-barred interview with BBC, Gabby Petitos Life WithAnd Death ByBrian Laundrie. And that's when I came up. I took my zip ties and I put them around her feet and put them around her arms. It was about at that point that Gooch remembers Warren saying, Quit struggling, B.J., or do you want to feel more pain?. Sign up for The Gleaners morning and evening newsletters. That afternoon they worked their way back uptown, to scope out Christie's steel-and-glass headquarters before their Tuesday appointment. Like, they were doing something serious, talking about the heist, going over the plan, and somebody would make a joke. Spencer had underestimated his friend's resolve. Cops entered the basement, a dank pit reeking of marijuana, and found Warren sprawled out on a mattress. I get the call on the cell phone. Lifting a technique straight from the film Reservoir Dogs, Warren assigned code names based on color: Mr. Green (Spencer), Mr. Yellow (Warren), and Mr. Black (Eric)as in the film, emotions turned testy when he assigned Mr. Pink, in this case to Chas. Gicle print on Hahnemuhle Photo Paper (Matt 210gr) 2021 Limited edition of 25, all prints are signed and numbered. Opposite him there is another young man, fully fleshed and with a neat haircut, resting in a chair, staring into space. We need to just get over this stuff, Eric tells me, explaining how Warren re-entered his life after their falling-out the previous semester. That night Chas snapped, they say, fearing the Christies book appraisalthe Jesus bolt holding Warrens entire heist plan togetherwas in danger of falling through. He loved that it had been made the screen saver on the F.B.I. Indeed one might consider these years to be a catalyst with which he could find his unique vision. Warren, under an alias, would make an appointment with Gooch for that afternoon to view the books they wanted to steal. He loved that it had been made the screen saver on the F.B.I.s computers. But even at that point, it became apparent that Warren and Spencer wouldnt be able to pull it off alone. They think we have [the books]. He added: Its always nice to be with people that are familiar with the area, and Ive been made to feel very welcome. Mass Market Paperback. When I get up there, B.J. On the second-floor landing, Chas, in high-end flannel pajamas and thinking they were being robbed, pulled out a derringer, only to drop the weapon at the last moment. The L.P.D. So we ate at Pazzo's pizza pub. Across town at U.K., in a towering cinder-block dorm, Warren's world was spinning apart at a much faster clip. A female detective went undercover as a Transy student, tailing Spencer while a team staked out the yellow bungalow. In early February 2005, the F.B.I. It was hard for us. All Rights Reserved. The set was one of fewer than 200 produced. Reinhard mentioned a collection of lightly guarded rare books and art at the university library, and the two, while watching Hollywood heist movies, started kicking around the idea of stealing from the $20 million collection. They said that this set, Birds of America, sold for $12 million. I said, Twelve million dollars, just sitting there? I had so few distractions to take me away from my work, and only by bettering myself could escape the belief that I was losing my best years. 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. Warren was like, I've talked to these guys. It'll show up on your profile and if approved, on this page. Donald Trump to Evangelicals: You Cant Break Up With Me Because Im Breaking Up With You First, Reality Is Submerged in Fantasy: The Villages Is a Boomers UtopiaAnd Demographic Time Bomb. Spencer believed it was an insurmountable problem. Because no one would go to Christie's with stolen books to get them appraisedthat's 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. As they scooted down the stairs their arms gave out and they stopped to catch their breath. Eric couldn't get hold of his friend's car, leaving Chas to borrow a Dodge Caravan his mother was fortuitously selling the next day, the boys say. It was very punishing, that first couple of months in college. 1.7K Followers. He was just so unbearable. The first call went out to the National Crime Information Center, alerting law enforcement to be on the lookout for a gray minivan with temporary plates, the description of a vehicle seen screeching away from the library. We had a few pitchers, feeling each other out. It had some tennis trivia in there that I wasn't expecting.. The three then take the staff-only elevator down to the bottom floor and escape out the west fire exit. The reaction to the plan was generally positiveshortly after Thanksgiving, they moved forward. . The minimum-security Federal Correctional Institution in Ashland, Kentucky, 125 miles from Lexington, houses approximately 1,200 inmates in multi-story cellblocks encircled by concentric layers of razor-topped fencing and fortified guard towers. It was the sense of redemption that I hadn't anticipated. The phone number was registered to a Gary Reinhard of Lexington, Kentucky. The painting, in digital form, would become a popular screen saver on the F.B.I. 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 Oceans 11 and Snatch. It had some tennis trivia in there that I wasnt expecting.. The contact, who identified himself only as Barry, stipulated that Warren had to bring $500 in good-faith money. And so I see Warren go back. They jump in the van and peel out around the loop.. In the fall of 2003, Warren left for the University of Kentucky on a full athletic scholarship, eager to take his game to the next level, and with vague plans of getting into politics. Having concluded that the next logical stage of his development was to study art in college he enrolled at Transylvania University in Kentucky. Warren also ordered four stun guns over the Internet. In their senior year the two became local celebrities after a dramatic photo appeared in the Lexington Herald-Leader showing Lexington Catholic star goalkeeper Lipka and Tates Creek forward Reinhard battling midair during a playoff game. onto nearby Fourth Street and careened through traffic before stopping a mile farther on, in front of a predominantly black housing project. Because of the expense, only Warren made the trip, touching down at Amsterdams Schiphol Airport on a Saturday morning in early March 2004. After several phone calls Warren managed to arrange a meeting in New York. Eric rented a proper bedroom upstairs, while Spencer moved back into the dorms at Transylvania. She agreed. I think we all knew that we wanted something different, and we had to break away from where we were living. 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. At 11 the next morning, Chas slipped the G.T.A.V. Hes probably thinking I blamed him for [stealing] the money, which I never really did. After a quick powwow in the stacks, the conspirators decided to abort the mission for the time being and retreated to the bungalow. Buried in the files was a series of e-mails to Christie's in New York. The stun guns Warren had ordered never arrived, so he drove around town and returned with a Black Cobra Stun Pen, and had Spencer zap him and Eric to test its knockdown power. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Eric dropped the books, and he and Warren made a run for it. 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. 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. Suddenly without Eric's mock-ups, software, and equipment, Warren thought of Spencer. Warren introduced himself as Mr. Williams. Phase 2 involves the actual theft, and begins when Spencer takes his position at an upper-floor window of the nearby athletic center, where he will be on lookout. In the early evening, they say they smoked some celebratory Kentucky Bluegrass weed they had stashed away for the occasion. a plan to fail painting reinhard. After a quick powwow in the stacks, the conspirators decided to abort the mission for the time being and retreated to the bungalow. Im not going to lie. Having told their parents that they were going on a ski trip to West Virginia, that weekend they loaded the loot into Erics Ford Explorer and took off on the 12-hour drive to New York for their Christies appointment. They simply ignored him, and the four returned to Lexington. This story was recently documented in the feature film American Animals. The whole operation would have to be completed by 12:30 P.M., as the boys say Chas needed to return the Dodge Caravan to his mother in time for her to sell it, and Spencer and Eric had to get to their final exams in sociology and tennis, respectively. and Lexington police put the pair under surveillance. If we go in there they're not going to suspect that we stole these. Afterward, Warren and Spencer briefed the others, and the four went to lunch, where, the boys say, Chas insisted they spend another night in New York and attempt to see Mr. Leckey the next day. The plan is to continue using birds as my subjects but bringing back some of my earlier prison styles to take my work to the next level. Even if we wanted to, they won't let us. What they would tell me, then, is their version of eventsand the only complete account of the planning, execution, and aftermath of the heist. 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. Im not going to lie. I developed techniques that no one that I know of has done. (Because Spencer was a Transy student, he risked being recognized in the library.) When Eric let him in on the plan, Chas mocked the three as deluded potheads, he recalls. A week later came a terse reply, telling Terry that, if he wanted to sell something, he was going to have to come in person to Amsterdam, as that is where I do business. Both Spencer and Warren were thrilleduntil they realized it would require traveling with a passport. When she asked for contact information, Spencer gave her his cell-phone number. The Lexington Police Departments commercial-burglary squad was assigned to the case. Inside were the books, wrapped in sheets and pillowcases. In his talk, Spencer speaks to how he found a unique, unexpected sense of freedom and honesty in his art, not constrained by societal influences or monetary pressures. They went back up in the elevator, accidentally stopping on the main floor, where they were spotted by another librarian. Like, they were doing something serious, talking about the heist, going over the plan, and somebody would make a joke. We had a few pitchers, feeling each other out. But after stewing in the magnitude of the potential dollar amount involved, and once convinced of the ease of the heist, the logic of the appraisal, and the legitimacy of Warren's Amsterdam connections, they say, he threw his lot in with the others. Though I showed artwork briefly with Ann Tower Gallery, my career as an artist has been limited to private sales and commissions, including contributing a mural to PRHBTN in Lexington in 2018. He covered his tracks by using public phones and campus computers. Warren called Gooch back to change Walter Beckman's appointment to three P.M. On the morning of December 16, Warren's carefully scripted plan began to unravel almost immediately. Again, Warren thought otherwise. 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. from an unsuspecting friend and got his hands on zip ties, a wool cap, electrician's tape, and bedsheets. In exchange, Barry slipped him an e-mail address with instructions to sign off any communication with the name Terry. Spencer was born in 1984 in Lexington Kentucky. If we got away with it, wed be in Europe living this crazy life thinking we were Oceans 11 types. The day of the heist was to be Thursday, December 16, one of the last days of final examsthe library would be nearly empty. As she was heading toward a display case, Gooch felt a tingling on her right arm and collapsed to the floor. 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