Art Theft Research Paper

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This art works were worth a lot so people would try to get them back from the thief's. Of course the thief's would ask for something in return to give them back, but some would keep them to get more out of it. This articles will describe how they were stolen and recovered.

Stolen master pieces in the Brooklyn warehouse. The stolen masterpieces were worth $5 million then but today there worth over $500 million. Soon an investigator felt feet from the real thing, that the Rembrandt, and perhaps all the stolen art, and soon be home. Years go by and he still wonders whether what he saw that night was a masterpiece or a masterly effort to con an eager reporter. The F.B.I still discounts his warehouse viewing. He wrote a book about the art theft

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