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Judy Garland’s hometown hopes a good witch will help purchase Dorothy’s ruby slippers

1:55pm June 18, 2024

by Dana Ferguson | MPR News

Minnesota lawmakers set aside $100,000 for the formerly stolen pair this year and the Judy Garland Museum hopes a benevolent figure can help win them at auction.

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The FBI says it has recovered a pair of ruby slippers worn in The Wizard of Oz that were stolen from a Minnesota museum in 2005. One of several pairs of slippers worn by Judy Garland in the movie are seen here in 1996.

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FBI Says It Has Recovered Stolen Ruby Slippers, Missing For 13 Years

1:17pm September 04, 2018

by Laurel Wamsley

The sequined shoes were pilfered from the Judy Garland Museum in 2005. Investigators had pursued a range of leads — including an abandoned Minnesota mine — ever since.