Thirty years after Chagallâ€s “Othello and Desdemona” was stolen from a Manhattan apartment, the FBI found it locked inside a makeshift wooden box labeled “Miscellaneous High School Artwork.” Was it the buildingâ€s maintenance man who stole the work for Bulgarian mobsters? We discuss the details of this 1988 burglary on this weekâ€s episode.

Episode artwork by Adam Nicholson.

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Music by Patrick Damphier.
Show artwork by Saskia Keultjes.