A painting by Reinhard, a gifted artist, may offer some clues. I took my zip ties and I put them around her feet and put them around her arms. It was about at that point that Gooch remembers Warren saying, Quit struggling, B.J., or do you want to feel more pain?. I'd heard about them before, but I didn't know anything about them. Im not sure, but it was a lot. After several phone calls Warren managed to arrange a meeting in New York. Spencer was born in 1984 in Lexington Kentucky. Chas cursed Warren as an incompetent, and condemned the other two as burnouts, demanding that the three figure out a way to get the books appraised so they could move on to the next phase of the plan. From the facts that were available, it appeared that a team of four men, described as Caucasian, in their 20s, had stolen some of the most prized books and manuscripts in the universitys collection, and attacked a librarian in the process. A week later came a terse reply, telling Terry that, if he wanted to sell something, he was going to have to come in person to Amsterdam, as that is where I do business. Both Spencer and Warren were thrilleduntil they realized it would require traveling with a passport. Now the hard partwe have to steal them. I was nervous. Forensically examining Instagram accounts, interviews, and police reports, author Kathleen Hale reconstructs their relationship, and ultimately Petitos murder. Around Halloween, Warren drafted a working plan, which he presented to the other three in the basement. And Eric calls to him. Spencer gives me 500 bucks, in my pocket. agent discovered the stolen books, all undamaged, as well as the five-page typed plan for the heist, an accounting ledger, wigs, instructions for opening a Swiss bank account, and stun guns, which had apparently arrived after the robbery. They were skeptical, Warren recalls. Not what I expected, not what I wanted it to be, Warren says. When she asked for contact information, Spencer gave her his cell-phone number. They simply ignored him, and the four returned to Lexington. After a quick powwow in the stacks, the conspirators decided to abort the mission for the time being and retreated to the bungalow. In the fall of 2004, Warren Lipka moved into the unfinished basement. agents poured in over the wreckage. Calculated, mathematical, loose, painterly, spontaneous, 2021 Spencer Reinhard all rights reserved, Please send me the price list, I am interested in purchasing an original Reinhard. Warren and Spencer readied themselves early without waking the others, silently showering, shaving, and putting the finishing touches on their outfits. Dressed for success in a tailored dark-blue suit his parents had bought for special occasions and future job interviews, Warren cultivated the young-conservative look, using a Windsor knot on his red tie and giving his wing tips a last-minute buff. On the morning of December 17, 2004, Betty Jean Gooch, a librarian in the Special Collections Library at Transylvania University, in Lexington, Kentucky, was preparing for her 11 o'clock appointment with Walter Beckman, a man she had never met. Theyre all slim and dressed identically in cheap sneakers and a khaki uniform emblazoned with their incarceration numbers, and all have hair down to their shoulders. (Through his attorney, Allen declined to be interviewed.) Eric would stay on the main floor while Warren subdued Gooch in the Rare Book Room. LET'S START WITH 10 DAYS OF . More important, the basement was secluded. And then they came up with the issue of getting these appraised. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Returning five minutes later with a rolling red suitcase in tow, Spencer opened it on the conference table. as we left we were going to make an anonymous phone call so they knew she was up here, Eric continues. When an agent called, he got a voice-mail recording, This is Spence. Warren jumped at the opportunity and recruited another adrift freshman, his old high-school soccer teammate Eric Borsuk, as a partner. Lifting a technique straight from the film Reservoir Dogs, Warren assigned code names based on color: Mr. Green (Spencer), Mr. Yellow (Warren), and Mr. Black (Eric)as in the film, emotions turned testy when he assigned Mr. Ive met with them, Eric continues. notified all the airports in the area, dispatched officers to surrounding neighborhoods, and called the F.B.I. For added anonymity, Warren bleached his hair blond that night. I attended Tates Creek High School, where I continued to take art classes, but most of my time was dedicated to playing soccer. The Lexington Police Departments commercial-burglary squad was assigned to the case. . Quit struggling, B.J., or do you want to feel more pain? she remembered the man saying. As a child he drew and painted and his abilities led him to consider a career as an artist whilst at High School. (Because Spencer was a Transy student, he risked being recognized in the library.) Choose your favorite reinhard art prints from 2,323 available designs. So we go back down to the bottom floor just to get away from her. Honored to share the PRHBTN fest with you - your mural being the main attraction of course. The books were much heavier than the boys had projected, and the pair could handle only three at a time. Warren made an appraisal appointment at Christie's in New York for Walter Beckman, a pseudonym inspired by the soccer star David Beckham. The press invariably described them as good boys from good familiesupper-middle-class kids afforded every opportunity, the ones with the most to lose. Phase 2 involves the actual theft, and begins when Spencer takes his position at an upper-floor window of the nearby athletic center, where he will be on lookout. In terms of the dollar amount involved and the extraordinary circumstances, the theft was one of the most significant in its history. I love that my kids will grow up seeing both worlds and experiencing both cultures. Sign up for The Gleaners morning and evening newsletters. Gooch agreed to reschedule for 11 the next morning. It immediately had kind of sparked my imagination, like a fantasy., O.K., so were sitting in the car, smoking weed, Warren recalls, and then Spencer said, I just took a tour in that library, and theres shit sitting there you wouldnt believe. Barry described himself as an older man with a long ponytail and said he'd be wearing a green scarf. Again, Warren thought otherwise. When Eric let him in on the plan, Chas mocked the three as deluded potheads, he recalls. agent discovered the stolen books, all undamaged, as well as the five-page typed plan for the heist, an accounting ledger, wigs, instructions for opening a Swiss bank account, and stun guns, which had apparently arrived after the robbery. Eric had propped the folios on the steps with his foot when the librarian appeared at the top of the stairs, beside herself with rage after finding Gooch hog-tied in the Rare Book Room. Because the boys pleaded guilty, many of the case's crucial details remain unknown even to law enforcement. That night Chas snapped, they say, fearing the Christie's book appraisalthe Jesus bolt holding Warren's entire heist plan togetherwas in danger of falling through. I was kind of skeptical, continues Spencer, but the way I rationalized it was: it's the biggest auction house. In high school, Warren, a lanky six-footer with a mop of brown hair, was a popular jock and a class clown who delighted his classmates by bear-hugging his nemesis, the dean of students, at graduation. By one o'clock that afternoon, the 227-year-old liberal-arts college was swarming with campus police, uniformed Lexington Police, plainclothes detectives, and forensic teams, as well as local news. The boys readily agreed, and she escorted them through the offices to a small conference room. The minimum-security Federal Correctional Institution in Ashland, Kentucky, 125 miles from Lexington, houses approximately 1,200 inmates in multi-story cellblocks encircled by concentric layers of razor-topped fencing and fortified guard towers. Meanwhile, Eric lined up the G.T.A.V. By that point Warren, Eric, and Spencer knew for certain they were going down. Warren called Gooch back to change Walter Beckman's appointment to three P.M. On the morning of December 16, Warren's carefully scripted plan began to unravel almost immediately. The contact, who identified himself only as Barry, stipulated that Warren had to bring $500 in good-faith money. The investigation of the Transy Book Heist came to an explosive end on the morning of February 11, 2005, as a SWAT unit broke down the front door of the yellow bungalow with a battering ram, blasting stun grenades throughout the building. Spencer, feeling increasingly disaffected with school life himself, readily accepted the offer. "It's often considered a mistake in the art world to have multiple styles, but I have to go wherever my inspiration takes me. They said that this set, Birds of America, sold for $12 million. I said, Twelve million dollars, just sitting there? (Because Spencer was a Transy student, he risked being recognized in the library.) Titled A Plan to Fail, it was part of a series he had done on the crime for a local art gallery while out on bond. Warren, under an alias, would make an appointment with Gooch for that afternoon to view the books they wanted to steal. Having told their parents that they were going on a ski trip to West Virginia, that weekend they loaded the loot into Erics Ford Explorer and took off on the 12-hour drive to New York for their Christies appointment. The banality of assessments, passing courses for the sake of progression and limited intellectual stimulation meant that Spencers time at university was far removed from his hoped for experience. Speculative plans became actual plans, the plan became a dry run, the dry run became a crime - a botched affair that . The painting is a kaleidoscope of images, including what appears to be a computer, a cell phone, a bong, the Transylvania library, and loose sheets of notepaper, floating above a desiccated one-eyed young man in a watch cap, kicking back on a beat-up couch with a blue dog on his lap. But even at that point, it became apparent that Warren and Spencer wouldnt be able to pull it off alone. His clumsy attempt to clear his name, in a no-holds-barred interview with BBC, Gabby Petitos Life WithAnd Death ByBrian Laundrie. Back at Warrens that afternoon, the boys were transfixed by local coverage of the Transy Book Heist.. He was still enrolled, but only nominally, and remained on the fringes of campus life. Warren sectioned off a bedroom by hanging bedsheets from the rafters and furnished it with an old mattress and a tangerine easy chair he had picked up from Goodwill. What I found incredibly valuable about prison was the multiculturalism. On the morning of December 17, 2004, Betty Jean Gooch, a librarian in the Special Collections Library at Transylvania University, in Lexington, Kentucky, was preparing for her 11 oclock appointment with Walter Beckman, a man she had never met. Pink, in this case to Chas. According to the revised plan, they would ditch the old-man disguises and only Warren and Eric would enter the library. Before rendering her decision, the judge made preliminary findings that each of the boys was equally culpable, that the value of the books stolen would include only those physically removed from the building, and although Gooch suffered no bodily injury, the stun pen was in fact a dangerous weapon. They got security around that? Nonchalantly, very nonchalantly, I mean, just kind of shooting it between us. (Having seen their fair share of heist movies, they knew how dangerous it was to leave a paper trail.) As they took their seats in the conference room, Warren explained that he and Mr. Stephens are the sole representatives of Walter Beckman, whom he described as a very private individual from Boston who had recently inherited several valuable rare books and manuscripts. I know the collection is extensive and anything you think I might be interested in seeing, by all means, share, he wrote. Eric had propped the folios on the steps with his foot when the librarian appeared at the top of the stairs, beside herself with rage after finding Gooch hog-tied in the Rare Book Room. The author knocks on the doors bearing the darkest symbols, behind which lie guns, ammo, antisemitism, antiabortion dogmaand a belief in the coming civil war. The Kentucky Theatre We had a few pitchers, feeling each other out. 's computers. and local detectives. I was nervous. Currently an artist-in-residence at Blue Macaw in Boscobel, Reinhard says his first trip to Jamaica has stirred his creative senses, and he couldnt be happier. As she inspected the items, Halloran dutifully took notes, then asked a few questions regarding their provenance, which Spencer answered as best he could under the circumstances. If we go in there theyre not going to suspect that we stole these. Frightened and alone in an unfriendly neighborhood and weighed down with priceless books, Warren and Eric barreled down the street, frantically trying to hail a police cruiser to rescue them. Warren was already busily working out the problem, returning for advice to his underworld contact: What if we had some artwork that we wanted to sell? Warren remembers asking him. The plan is to continue using birds as my subjects but bringing back some of my earlier prison styles to take my work to the next level. I know now that they were my best years, and if I hadnt gone to prison, they would have been lost to temptations of the so-called free world., Shuttling between his familys adopted home in California, Colombia, and Stateside, Reinhard said: The transition for me has been great. you know, it's. it was. is parked in front of the library and the four are in 1st Position at bottom of stairs of library.. The story behind their motiveand how they got caught. I was surprised he didn't.. Whilst Spencers life path may have been unorthodox at times one can only but admire what it has led him to. Spencer Reinhard and Warren Lipka had grown up together in adjacent subdivisions on Lexingtons south sidefully planned residential tracts wedged in between the city and the gradually receding horse country that rings it. That was the plan. They surveyed the offices of the campus police. Once safely back in Lexington, the two created a Yahoo account and sent off the e-mail in which they claimed to have unspecified rare books in their possession, using the name Terry, as instructed. The minimum-security Federal Correctional Institution in Ashland, Kentucky, 125 miles from Lexington, houses approximately 1,200 inmates in multi-story cellblocks encircled by concentric layers of razor-topped fencing and fortified guard towers. To have time to properly apply the disguises, he tried to reschedule his art-history final for later in the day on the 16th, but was unsuccessful. There were all sorts of theories as to why they had done it: they were drug addicts; they had amassed large gambling debtsor Lipkas father had, and the boys did it to save the familys honor (the variant most popular with the local papers). Indeed one might consider these years to be a catalyst with which he could find his unique vision. After the Halloran interview the F.B.I. Oh, yeah, he almost got shot, says Eric, laughing. So we go back to the guy in Lexington and we say, Listen, we want to go somewhere, we want to go out of the country, and we need documentation, Warren explains. possibly taken care of, Spencer tells me. It was hard for us. Inside were the books, wrapped in sheets and pillowcases. It was definitely a terrifying thing. In early 2006, they began serving their sentences in federal prison, with no possibility for parole. The plan will continue to grow and mature as the leader goes forward. They tried to come up with some link the cops could make between them and the theft, but they couldn't. They stuffed some of the smaller books Gooch had pulled out for them into their backpacks. A few minutes later, a short, dark-haired young man, also dressed in a winter coat, cap, and gloves, entered the library. The crew arrived in New York City early Sunday morning. Chas promised to return to pick them up in another car after dropping the minivan off at his mom's house. Spencer assembled his outfit with even greater care. It was just funny because weve been in a lot of places that theyve been, Eric says. But after stewing in the magnitude of the potential dollar amount involved, and once convinced of the ease of the heist, the logic of the appraisal, and the legitimacy of Warrens Amsterdam connections, they say, he threw his lot in with the others. The other was short and quiet, wearing a yellow jacket two sizes too large and a matching scarf. My world view actually expanded. I guess when we did that she went upstairs to check on B.J.. By early November the boys were selling fake IDs at a hundred dollars apiece, and had apparently branched out into more lucrative identity manipulations. Phase 2 ends when the loot is loaded into the G.T.A.V. Writing from walter.beckman@yahoo.com, Warren sent B. J. Gooch an e-mail confirming Beckmans December 16 appointment at the Rare Book Room to view the Audubons and a few other items. Among the prisoners are three of the four unlikely masterminds behind the Transy Book Heist: Warren Lipka, Spencer Reinhard, and Eric Borsuk. In the fall of 2003, Warren left for the University of Kentucky on a full athletic scholarship, eager to take his game to the next level, and with vague plans of getting into politics. The other two would wait around the block in the S.U.V. I showed artistic ability from a young age and was selected to attend SCAPA in the fourth grade. At first, we wanted to move to the States as quickly as possible, but we began to see the benefits of living in South America. The ground floor quickly filled with shouting cops, screaming young women, and a few dazed men in boxer shorts. Spencer assembled his outfit with even greater care. A painting by Reinhard, a gifted artist, may offer some clues. Number one on that list was failure to create a business plan. The take could be more than $5 million. She agreed. A witness had written down a license-plate number, but it was way off. So we get the passport from the dude, plane tickets. It is more important to get a plan down, as flawed as it may be, and then continue to work on it as the entrepreneur would work on their business over time. Were going to need more people, Warren remembers thinking. Realizing that the only way out was through the main floor, they took the elevator up once again and carried the books into a back stairwell that led to another exit. The first call went out to the National Crime Information Center, alerting law enforcement to be on the lookout for a gray minivan with temporary plates, the description of a vehicle seen screeching away from the library. He topped off his new living quarters with the last of his worldly belongings: a large-screen television, a DVD player, and a Sony PlayStation. For one, its cheaper, and this allowed me to work less and spend more time with my young daughter. All four were brought to Lexington police headquarters and individually interrogated by F.B.I. Warren went up to the third floor to meet Gooch, while Eric waited downstairs for him to call. We figured, All right, well, now we just got what we thought would be impossible . After becoming disillusioned with the college experience, I rebelled from the sterile, privileged life I was leading by committing six felonies which famously landed me in prison for 87 months. Spencer had underestimated his friend's resolve. It immediately had kind of sparked my imagination, like a fantasy., O.K., so we're sitting in the car, smoking weed, Warren recalls, and then Spencer said, I just took a tour in that library, and there's shit sitting there you wouldn't believe. sent a team to interview Melanie Halloran, who told the agents about her meeting with Mr. Stephens and Mr. Williams. They're all slim and dressed identically in cheap sneakers and a khaki uniform emblazoned with their incarceration numbers, and all have hair down to their shoulders. Darren Matthews. They surveyed the offices of the campus police. Spencer received a commission to paint murals at a local school and kept up his soccer training, Eric started a lawn-care business with his friend Chas Allen, and Warren landed a job at a local day camp. As she inspected the items, Halloran dutifully took notes, then asked a few questions regarding their provenance, which Spencer answered as best he could under the circumstances. Warren made an appraisal appointment at Christies in New York for Walter Beckman, a pseudonym inspired by the soccer star David Beckham. They went back up in the elevator, accidentally stopping on the main floor, where they were spotted by another librarian. The F.B.I. Phase 2 involves the actual theft, and begins when Spencer takes his position at an upper-floor window of the nearby athletic center, where he will be on lookout. Across town at U.K., in a towering cinder-block dorm, Warrens world was spinning apart at a much faster clip. We figured the more obvious [we were], the less likely [we would be suspected]., As it was already nearing the end of the school year, and there was a lot of planning yet to be done, they agreed to postpone the theft until at least the fall. The take could be more than $5 million. Late one Thursday afternoon in mid-February, the two friends bought a bag of weed and drove the 700 miles to Manhattan in Spencers Acura Legend. The next day, they worked off their hangovers by checking out Ground Zero before strolling into the bustle of Chinatown for lunch. The truth is, but for one obvious, big mistakethe trip to Christie'sthey probably would have gotten away with it, a Lexington police detective told me. Both boys were spitting images of Mr. Stephens and Mr. Williams. At only $200 a month, the price was right, as Warren was broke after having shut down his and Spencers fake-ID business and dropping out of U.K. for the semester to focus full-time on the heist. Boom. They said that this set, Birds of America, sold for $12 million. I said, Twelve million dollars, just sitting there? Once Warren had pulled the cap over Goochs eyes, the two laid a bedsheet on the ground and began piling on the seven Audubon folios they intended to steal (the four-volume Birds of America plus three volumes from another Audubon series). During a meeting in the basement, Warren convinced the other two that they were going to need a fourth, principally to help haul the nearly 250 pounds in Audubon folios out of the library. Late one Thursday afternoon in mid-February, the two friends bought a bag of weed and drove the 700 miles to Manhattan in Spencer's Acura Legend. Eric and Chas dropped Warren and Spencer off around the corner from Christies. That was the point all along. Spencer, meanwhile, was accepted to Transylvania on an arts scholarship, his sights firmly set on a career in graphic design. Warren had run up the side of the hill and frantically ran off. By that point Warren, Eric, and Spencer knew for certain they were going down. As they scooted down the stairs their arms gave out and they stopped to catch their breath. computers in the Lexington field office. If you were referring only to my paintings featuring birds, I would say its my ability to render the birds accurately, but in a way that gives them personality.. That night they had dinner at a Japanese restaurant, followed by drinks at the hotel bar, where Warren chummed up to an Iraq veteran, Spencer almost started a brawl after knocking a table full of drinks over, and Eric picked up a middle-aged Brazilian tourist. I had so few distractions to take me away from my work, and only by bettering myself could escape the belief that I was losing my best years. Chas not only lived in the yellow bungalow but also was a part owner of it with his father, a prominent Lexington real-estate investor. And I pledged a fraternity, but I really didnt get into that too much. ). Gicle print on Hahnemuhle Photo Paper (Matt 210gr) 2021 Limited edition of 25, all prints are signed and numbered. 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