No Place Like Home
Description
Do you remember the first time you watched The Wizard of Oz? The familiar pair of red shoes that sparkle as Dorothy skips down the yellow brick road, a rare collector’s item worth millions. In the summer of 2005, a pair was stolen from the Judy Garland Museum in the small town of Grand Rapids, Minnesota. No Place Like Home follows a classic heist story against the nostalgic backdrop of one of the most famous movies and Hollywood props of all time. Journalist Ariel Ramchandani and editor Seyward Darby investigate the strange story that dives into small town suspicions between local cops and the FBI, the fraught relationship between Grand Rapids and its most famous daughter, Judy Garland, and brings listeners inside the peculiar world of Hollywood memorabilia and the market for lost and stolen art. Although the shoes were eventually recovered, there are more questions left than answers. We still don't know who stole the shoes and where they were hiding for nearly 13 years.
No Place Like Home is an Audacy original.
Entertaining and well researched. A completely unique 'ruby slippers' story.
Those shoes can’t continue to sit in a police basement! That’s scandalous. They should be in a museum so everyone can see them. Shaw shouldn’t get them either…they don’t belong to him - they belong to everyone! Besides which, he got his insurance money…he’s had his pound of flesh.
With all the blunders and lapses in security at the museum, I'd be surprised if the ruby slippers *didn't* get stolen! Doors left wide open AND unguarded? Security cameras not recording? Alarm system disarmed?? It all adds up to extreme negligence.
Noooo Shaw can not get them back!!!
I agree the slippers belong in Grand Rapids!!
I think hearing how kind the officers are to Shaw makes Shaw seem like an even bigger jerk.
good 👍
This story is really cool, and the podcasters did a great job at the research. Despite the dead-pan voices of both the reasearchers/podcasters, the show was enjoyable. I can’t recommend it, though, because of the terrible narration style of both women. They sound like this is the most boring thing that has ever been written. My six-year-old reads with more expression!
This show is doing a great job of bringing together all the many different elements of this heartbreaking story. I mean, you can't talk about The Ruby Slippers without also discussing Judy Garland and her tragic life. What the industry did to her is just shameful -- what a beautiful piece of magic we were too briefly given. Why must we use up, and discard as trash, all the brightest treasures, as though gems rain down on us every day?
Shaw sounds like a jerk. why agree to an interview if you don't want to talk about it?