because of Facebook, my apologies.
Here is one of my recent favorites – I was totally obsessed with this case while living in London in ’05. Only in the UK would 2 guys load a Henry Moore sculpture onto a lorry and bring it to a chop-shop to sell to East Indians for the price of bronze.
Missing Moore Sculpture May Have Been Sold For Scrap
By Dave Itzkoff
The British police believe that they have solved the case of a Henry Moore sculpture that has been missing for four years, and now suspect that it was sold for scrap, The Guardian reported. In 2005, the two-ton bronze sculpture, “Reclining Figure,” was stolen from Moore’s estate in Hertfordshire, 30 miles north of London, and a flatbed truck and crane believed to have been used in the crime were quickly recovered. After more than three years of investigation, Jon Humphries, the detective chief inspector of the Hertfordshire police, said that evidence suggests the work was “cut up” on the night of the crime, “then taken to a location where it was irreparably damaged before it was shipped abroad.” He added, “In my mind we’ve managed to kill off the mystery as much as is possible.” The sculpture, valued at about $4.6 million, would have yielded about $2,300 in scrap metal, Detective Humphries said.
