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When the elderly couple Jerry and Rita Altera from New Mexico died, a valuable painting was unexpectedly discovered in their bedroom “Woman – Ocher” painted by the Dutch painter Willem de Kooning, stolen November 29, 1985 from the State Art Museum Arizona and valued at 160 million dollars.
A striking find was made in the house of the spouses in the past year, however, US law enforcement officers still do not know that and think about what happened, and therefore information about this criminal For a long time, they were not disclosed. Yes, and today in the press only a minimum of information leaked about it.
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According to the neighbors, Jerry and Rita have always been charming a couple who led an extremely normal and calm lifestyle. How did this seemingly exemplary family succeed to steal an expensive canvas? And why? According to the official version police, the alters are really the kidnappers of this works of art. Moreover, on the day of the theft they visited the city where the museum is located, and even the snapshots of alleged criminals are quite similar to our heroes. However, at many unresolved issues remain guardians of the law.
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For example, how did the spouses manage to steal the canvas from everyone in sight? Subsequently, other museum visitors reported that saw a suspicious couple (according to these indications and were compiled photo-robots), but no pictures in the hands of men and women It was. This begs the following question: how did the kidnappers manage quietly take out a large piece in a frame from a building? Alas, surveillance cameras in those days were not here yet, but because the crime was not captured in a photo or video.
Finally, why did the Alters even commit this theft? They are clearly not planned to sell an expensive painting, and “Woman – Ocher” just hung in their bedroom for three long decades, as if bought on flea market reproduction. Collectors of rare and famous Apparently, they were not paintings either. It is not by chance that this the criminal case is surrounded by all kinds of mysterious details, attracting the attention of not only forensic experts and experts in painting, but and mystics …
