I think we all knew that we wanted something different, and we had to break away from where we were living. How the hell would we do this? And he said, I know a guy in New York.. believing that they had escaped with next to nothing. (Having seen their fair share of heist movies, they knew how dangerous it was to leave a paper trail.) Nothing like a six year prison sentence to get the creative juices flowing. Barry described himself as an older man with a long ponytail and said he'd be wearing a green scarf. Because the boys made the highly unusual decision not to accept the prosecutor's offer to testify against one another during sentencing in exchange for leniency, they were each sentenced to identical seven-year terms. Warren introduced himself as Mr. Williams. you know, it's. it was. He loved that it had been made the screen saver on the F.B.I.s computers. 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 early November the boys were selling fake IDs at a hundred dollars apiece, and had apparently branched out into more lucrative identity manipulations. Eric would stay on the main floor while Warren subdued Gooch in the Rare Book Room. Reinhard mentioned a collection of lightly guarded rare books and art at the university library, and the two, while watching Hollywood heist movies, started kicking around the idea of stealing from the $20 million collection. For footwear he went with clean white sneakers. In fact, they all tell me that as the planning picked up in the months before the heist, the three of them came to believe that it was their best and perhaps last chance to create a viable life for themselves after college. Far from being social outcasts, they had been popular athletes, and two were on some form of college scholarship. I see Warren and Eric bust out of the back door, Spencer says, describing what he saw unfold from his lookout position. 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. April 20, 2022. The others spent time in the library, too, taking notes on staff routines and viable escape routes. The actor thanked his fans for all their kind words. Spencer, meanwhile, was short, wiry, distant, and in many ways Warren's opposite: an over-scheduled, over-achieving, diamond-tipped drill of a kid who excelled at whatever he set himself to. Warren called Gooch back to change Walter Beckmans appointment to three P.M. On the morning of December 16, Warrens carefully scripted plan began to unravel almost immediately. . He was still enrolled, but only nominally, and remained on the fringes of campus life. (Through his attorney, Allen declined to be interviewed.) 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. Still shaken from her ordeal, Gooch, in her 50s, told police that shortly after entering the Rare Book Room with the two men she had been struck on the arm with a Taserlike weapon, her hands and feet were bound with zip ties, and a wool cap was pulled over her eyes. Speculative plans became actual plans, the plan became a dry run, the dry run became a crime - a botched affair that . A 20-man task force of Lexington police and F.B.I. The meeting was scheduled for the next morning on the southern edge of Central Park near the Plaza Hotel. A uniformed doorman cheerily welcomed both boys into the lobby, where they informed reception that they were there for Mr. Walter Beckman's appointment with Thomas Leckey, Christie's rare-book specialist. The painting, in digital form, would become a popular screen saver on the F.B.I. Mass Market Paperback. So we would see parts like that and we would be Oh, this is just like us. Little did the three know that F.B.I. Ultimately, upon release, his art career has flourished. Because their campuses were only a mile apart, they assumed they would stay close, but as with most freshmen, their assured identities and easy expectations muddied once they hit campus. The fourth, Charles Chas Allen II, had been transferred to a federal medical center in Lexington.) Only by committing a felony could they ensure that they would never end up living back in the sterile, suburban world of the subdivisions. Eric couldn't get hold of his friend's car, leaving Chas to borrow a Dodge Caravan his mother was fortuitously selling the next day, the boys say. Because this is so much bigger than anything weve done before.. Improvising on the plan, he kicked Eric and Warren out on the street, believing three men in a gray minivan would draw too much attention. Now the hard partwe have to steal them. I was nervous. None the less, still super stoked Lex Art League accepted 3 of my artworks. 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. Only cannabis-smoking goalkeeper Warren Lipka . They stopped talking entirely and disbanded. The other two would wait around the block in the S.U.V. 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. It was hard for us. Buried in the files was a series of e-mails to Christies in New York. That night Chas snapped, they say, fearing the Christies book appraisalthe Jesus bolt holding Warrens entire heist plan togetherwas in danger of falling through. In all my art classes I was the only guyin with a bunch of girls who didnt have any idea what they wanted to do. He scored a joint before checking into a hole-in-the-wall and falling asleep. 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. The two men followed the librarian into the Rare Book Room, and John closed the door behind them. Back at Warren's later that afternoon, the boys were transfixed by local coverage of the Transy Book Heist. According to the news, it appeared that neither Gooch nor anyone else was able to provide the police with an accurate description of the boys. 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. We need to just get over this stuff, Eric tells me, explaining how Warren re-entered his life after their falling-out the previous semester. After a brief discussion they chose Chas Allen, a handsome, clean-cut U.K. business major who had started the lawn-care company with Eric the previous summer. If you want to do something, you should figure out how you are going to do it. 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. (Throughout the interviews with the three, it became clear that Chas was the odd man out among the group. 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. notified all the airports in the area, dispatched officers to surrounding neighborhoods, and called the F.B.I. 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. Get the latest chatter, from Kensington Palace and beyond, straight to your inbox. Across town at U.K., in a towering cinder-block dorm, Warrens world was spinning apart at a much faster clip. Add to cart Category: Prints Additional information As a precautionary measure, they left the books in the car. He said his name was John. 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. 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. Spencer continued with his heavy schedule of classes, studying, painting, and working out, while Warren returned full-time to U.K. With the pressure mounting, however, Warren was caught shoplifting a TV dinner from a local supermarket, Eric was arrested and charged with D.U.I.police pulled him over not only for running red lights but also because Warren was on top of the car, hanging on to the roof rackand Spencer crashed his Acura Legend. The two boys sought cover from the cops in the sprawling grounds of the housing projects. When she asked for contact information, Spencer gave her his cell-phone number. We had a few pitchers, feeling each other out. Again, Warren thought otherwise. 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. Boom. If we got away with it, we'd be in Europe living this crazy life thinking we were Ocean's 11 types. Its often considered a mistake in the art world to have multiple styles, but I have to go wherever my inspiration takes me. The story behind their motiveand how they got caught. 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. As they scooted down the stairs their arms gave out and they stopped to catch their breath. I think we all knew that we wanted something different, and we had to break away from where we were living. In the weeks following the book heist, law enforcement followed leads at Transy and reviewed countless hours of security footage from the U.K. computer lab, to which a police technician had traced the e-mail from Walter Beckman to Gooch. 1.7K Followers. Meanwhile, Eric lined up the G.T.A.V. Vanity Fair may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. They think we have [the books]. Although the two hadn't really been in contact in the first few months of school, Warren knew that Spencer's artistic talents would be an asset. agents poured in over the wreckage. "It's often considered a mistake in the art world to have multiple styles, but I have to go wherever my inspiration takes me. Donald Trump to Evangelicals: You Cant Break Up With Me Because Im Breaking Up With You First, Reality Is Submerged in Fantasy: The Villages Is a Boomers UtopiaAnd Demographic Time Bomb. 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. agents were sitting behind them the whole time, listening to their every word. Spencer was arrested in a simultaneous raid on his dorm room at Transy. Opposite him there is another young man, fully fleshed and with a neat haircut, resting in a chair, staring into space. I was expecting to play soccer quite a lot, but the coach was a completely different person once I got on the team, he tells me. For added anonymity, Warren bleached his hair blond that night. And one thing led to another and we were just like, Let's put this behind us. And once we get past all of that, we started talking about this plan that he and Spencer have. (Big Warren declined to comment on the gambling accusations at the time.) (Spencer had had to do a rush job on them because his art-history final had run long.) These people's perspectives, because they have money, they're tweaked., In October of his freshman year, Warren quit the U.K. soccer team, forfeiting his scholarship. They got security around that? Warren asked Spencer. In the weeks following the book heist, law enforcement followed leads at Transy and reviewed countless hours of security footage from the U.K. computer lab, to which a police technician had traced the e-mail from Walter Beckman to Gooch. 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. All four, now 22, children of privilege, products of elite Lexington high schools, are serving seven-year sentences for their parts in the crime. The two boys sought cover from the cops in the sprawling grounds of the housing projects. The phone number was registered to a Gary Reinhard of Lexington, Kentucky. According to the revised plan, they would ditch the old-man disguises and only Warren and Eric would enter the library. and local detectives. Now the hard partwe have to steal them. I was nervous. 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. In exchange, Barry slipped him an e-mail address with instructions to sign off any communication with the name Terry. The other was short and quiet, wearing a yellow jacket two sizes too large and a matching scarf. Spencer would communicate with Warren from a cell phone, which Warren would steal from a student in the morning. Warren made an appraisal appointment at Christies in New York for Walter Beckman, a pseudonym inspired by the soccer star David Beckham. He focused above all on painting, gaining admission into a prestigious Lexington arts program. They also noticed a group of people lingering in the Rare Book Room. Attempting perfection in writing a business plan will only lead to one end result: the business plan will never be written. After a quick powwow in the stacks, the conspirators decided to abort the mission for the time being and retreated to the bungalow. And so I see Warren go back. They jump in the van and peel out around the loop.. In between soccer practice, classes, painting, and studying, Spencer drew detailed sketches of the inside of the Special Collections Library and the adjacent Rare Book Room, making several appointments with the Special Collections librarian, Betty Jean Gooch, to scout the premises. The meeting initially hit a snag when Barry was put off by the boys' youth. After a brief discussion they chose Chas Allen, a handsome, clean-cut U.K. business major who had started the lawn-care company with Eric the previous summer. Id heard about them before, but I didnt know anything about them. The F.B.I. Forensically examining Instagram accounts, interviews, and police reports, author Kathleen Hale reconstructs their relationship, and ultimately Petitos murder. Though she couldn't recall much else about her assailants, one odd detail stood out. 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. Suddenly without Erics mock-ups, software, and equipment, Warren thought of Spencer. Afterward, Warren and Spencer briefed the others, and the four went to lunch, where, the boys say, Chas insisted they spend another night in New York and attempt to see Mr. Leckey the next day. I want to say living that kind of lifethe country clubs, sitting in a classroom and listening to two girls argue about turning down a BMW S.U.V. And I pledged a fraternity, but I really didnt get into that too much. American Animals, the 2018 biopic, written and directed by The Tinder Swindlers Bart Layton, is an acclaimed cinematic account of a younger Reinhard, a then Transylvania University junior whose plot to steal one of the rarest of US art history titles naturalist icon John James Audubons 1827 tome Birds of America as well as a first-edition Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin - led to guilty pleas from Reinhard and three chums, who paid the price: seven-year convictions across the board. . After several phone calls Warren managed to arrange a meeting in New York. In the fall of 2004, Warren Lipka moved into the unfinished basement. On the second-floor landing, Chas, in high-end flannel pajamas and thinking they were being robbed, pulled out a derringer, only to drop the weapon at the last moment. We felt bad., Warren and Eric rode the elevator to the basement, but they couldn't find the fire exit. He thought he was much better than everybody else, and he got to the point where he wasnt like us. (The librarian who chased them out of the library did tell police the correct total of four thieves, even though she had seen only three.) She offered to take his place. Because of the expense, only Warren made the trip, touching down at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport on a Saturday morning in early March 2004. I was not in my ordinary largely white existence anymore. Spencer drives me out to Lexington [Blue Grass Airport] on a Friday. The books were much heavier than the boys had projected, and the pair could handle only three at a time. So I walk off happy, come back to the States, and blow Spencer's mind.. It had some tennis trivia in there that I wasn't expecting.. It was only a tennis final, Eric says, but that final that day was actually harder than I thought it was going to be. Wedged in among the other houses on Beaumont Avenue, a quiet residential street near the U.K. campus, is a beaten-down yellow cinder-block bungalow, with two bedrooms on the second floor and two on the first. Eric dropped the books, and he and Warren made a run for it. Sign up for The Gleaners morning and evening newsletters. Warren and Eric got out of the G.T.A.V. They surveyed the offices of the campus police. computers in the Lexington field office. Im not going to lie. Afterward, he was to call Eric up to haul the books in two trips to the G.T.A.V., which was to be driven by Chas. See also Waiting for the law to snatch them was nerve-racking, but they went on with their lives as if nothing had been amiss. Two weeks into his stay, Reinhard, an ardent ornithologist, whose works draw inspiration from late Dutch-American abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning, feels that his greatest artistic asset is his versatility. When Eric let him in on the plan, Chas mocked the three as deluded potheads, he recalls. What I found incredibly valuable about prison was the multiculturalism. More important, the basement was secluded. 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 Warren's Amsterdam connections, they say, he threw his lot in with the others. We werent, like, hardened criminals, so we kind of had to really put up a front. Warren deepens his voice: How ya doing? That kind of stuff. After an awkward back-and-forth, Warren finally handed the man the $500. They simply ignored him, and the four returned to Lexington. In exchange, Barry slipped him an e-mail address with instructions to sign off any communication with the name Terry. The phone number was registered to a Gary Reinhard of Lexington, Kentucky. In their senior year the two became local celebrities after a dramatic photo appeared in the Lexington Herald-Leader showing Lexington Catholic star goalkeeper Lipka and Tates Creek forward Reinhard battling midair during a playoff game. (Through his attorney, Allen declined to be interviewed.) Undeterred, Warren introduced himself as Terry, firmly shaking hands before sitting down. LET'S START WITH 10 DAYS OF . Phase 2 ends when the loot is loaded into the G.T.A.V. When Warren arrived, he saw a man fitting that description seated with three other men. It was only a tennis final, Eric says, but that final that day was actually harder than I thought it was going to be. Eric and Chas dropped Warren and Spencer off around the corner from Christies. Serving a seven-year prison sentence following his involvement in a notorious heist (portrayed in the film American Animals), Spencer Reinhard was committed to not losing "the best years of his life." He turned to his own art, determined to refine his craft and technique. 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. Around Halloween, Warren drafted a working plan, which he presented to the other three in the basement. Indeed one might consider these years to be a catalyst with which he could find his unique vision. What they would tell me, then, is their version of eventsand the only complete account of the planning, execution, and aftermath of the heist. The reaction to the plan was generally positiveshortly after Thanksgiving, they moved forward. Leave a message. A Google search of Spencer Reinhard brought up numerous hits for soccer in the Lexington area. It was hard for us. Chas promised to return to pick them up in another car after dropping the minivan off at his mom's house. 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. Afraid to Look - Spencer Reinhard Home / Prints / Afraid to Look Afraid to Look $ 789 Full sized print of acrylic on canvas painting. He said his name was John. Among them was the 2002 photo from the Lexington Herald-Leader of Spencer and Warren playing soccer. And the woman there says, We had a set just like this that we sold four years ago for like $12 million. It could have been eight. When they arrived on campus in the replacement G.T.A.V., they couldn't find a parking space anywhere near the library. At only $200 a month, the price was right, as Warren was broke after having shut down his and Spencer's fake-ID business and dropping out of U.K. for the semester to focus full-time on the heist. Before, in college, growing up, we were being funneled into this mundane, nickel-and-dime existence. The two men followed the librarian into the Rare Book Room, and John closed the door behind them. By early November the boys were selling fake IDs at a hundred dollars apiece, and had apparently branched out into more lucrative identity manipulations. He added: Its always nice to be with people that are familiar with the area, and Ive been made to feel very welcome. Us three, we were much thicker than he was.) And what Chas likely didn't know was that, for Warren, Eric, and Spencer, the actual appraisal and sale of the stolen books had become irrelevant to the mission. Thanks for the on my post. Inside were the books, wrapped in sheets and pillowcases. Were going to need more people, Warren remembers thinking. I still feel like I have a long way to go to reach my full potential, and I think Jamaica will be an integral step in that direction., American visual artist Spencer Reinhard, an artist-in-residence at Blue Macaw in Boscobel, St. Mary, The ornithologist in Spencer Reinhard takes gaze. I can't really get into too much specifics, Eric says, but we were doing all kinds of little scams: making fake IDs, making little things here and there. [Beckman] said, B.J., a nickname her friends and colleagues used for her, she told officers. This story was recently documented in the feature film American Animals. Quote tagged! The F.B.I. Along the way a stoned Spencer read aloud from the purloined first edition of On the Origin of Species, particularly fascinated by the section on how the ears of domesticated animals have drooped over generations due to the disuse of the muscles of the ear from the animals not being much alarmed by danger.. Warren and Chas go up to the Rare Book Room, on the third floor, and Warren brings Gooch down hard and fast with a stun gun, making her a non-factor throughout the operation. Warren and Chas then let Eric in and they begin wrapping the Audubons in bedsheets and put any smaller books in backpacks. They take you in the Special Collections and show you these books, Spencer remembers, including Transys prized Birds of America, by John James Audubon, a four-volume set of life-size engravings the pioneer wildlife artist completed in London in 1838. 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. I've met with them, Eric continues. ). They got security around that? Nonchalantly, very nonchalantly, I mean, just kind of shooting it between us. The thieves left no fingerprints behind, and there were almost no witnesses. 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