As It Happens6:48Theft of Wizard of Oz shoes was a mystery for 18 years. Now, a man has been charged
John Kelsch still vividly remembers the day the ruby red slippers were stolen from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Ripids, Minn, nearly two decades ago.
It was a Sunday morning in 2005. He’d just hopped out of the shower when the woman who worked at the museum’s admissions desk, Kathe Johnson, called him and said: “They’re gone.”
“I knew exactly what she meant,” Kelsch, a curator and founding director of the museum, told As It Happens host Nil Köksal.
“My heart was racing. Adrenaline
