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. 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. We figured, All right, well, now we just got what we thought would be impossible . 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. They tried to come up with some link the cops could make between them and the theft, but they couldn't. I love that my kids will grow up seeing both worlds and experiencing both cultures. Suddenly without Erics mock-ups, software, and equipment, Warren thought of Spencer. The fourth, Charles Chas Allen II, had been transferred to a federal medical center in Lexington.) I was born in Lexington, Kentucky and was raised by my wonderful parents in what was a largely carefree and happy childhood. 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. from an unsuspecting friend and got his hands on zip ties, a wool cap, electrician's tape, and bedsheets. Eric would stay on the main floor while Warren subdued Gooch in the Rare Book Room. Darren Matthews. agents were sitting behind them the whole time, listening to their every word. American Animals brings to the silver screen the story of the Transy Book Heist of 2004, where four students tried to steal $12 million worth of arts and books from the Special Collections Library . Warren and Spencer readied themselves early without waking the others, silently showering, shaving, and putting the finishing touches on their outfits. We can never go back if we wanted toI would rather have not been busted, but all I can say is it feels right in here, and before, in college, it just never did., I remember talking to Eric and Warren one day and I was like, So what, theyre going to put us in jail, says Spencer. 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. Shortly thereafter he was introduced to a Lexington Catholic alumnus who was making an easy living in identity theft. Spencers life story and his practice are indelibly linked, thus the works he has created are a highly personal meditation on the journey Spencer Reinhard experienced. Spencer elected not to consider his consequent incarceration as the loss of his best years, but rather sought to salvage his fledgling artist career by utilising his time to develop his practice and to consider new methods and media. Ink transfer refers to my unique process of removing the ink from magazine pages and suspending it in layers of gel medium. The L.P.D. In the fall of 2004, Warren Lipka moved into the unfinished basement. Chas backs up [the van] and almost hits the woman as Eric comes around to the door. 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 partnership flourished, with Warren as the face of the operation and Eric in charge of ID production, until the two had an argument over $2,000 that went missing from Erics drawer. When Warren arrived, he saw a man fitting that description seated with three other men. 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. And I pledged a fraternity, but I really didnt get into that too much. But even at that point, it became apparent that Warren and Spencer wouldn't be able to pull it off alone. The partnership flourished, with Warren as the face of the operation and Eric in charge of ID production, until the two had an argument over $2,000 that went missing from Eric's drawer. 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. When not at practice, Warren spent his time smoking pot, watching Comedy Central, and reading German philosophy. In fact, wedged in their backpacks was nearly three-quarters of a million dollars worth of books and manuscripts: an 1859 first edition of Charles Darwins On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection ($25,000), an illuminated manuscript from 1425 ($200,000), a set of the two-volume 15th-century horticultural masterpiece entitled Hortus Sanitatis ($450,000), 20 original Audubon pencil drawings ($50,000), and Audubons A Synopsis of the Birds of North America ($10,000). Its great to be the inspiration for this project., 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. ). April 20, 2022. 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. 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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. for a second vehicle at a secret location, which, according to Warren's plan, is used to transport team and loot to temporary resting place. After the heist, since it is certain that the stolen books will be entered into art-theft databases within a week, they have to get the books appraised at Christie's in New York immediately. It was just funny because weve been in a lot of places that theyve been, Eric says. During their sentencing hearing, in December 2005, the federal prosecutor asked for 11 to 14 years each for Eric, Chas, and Spencer, and 14 to 17 years for Warren, deeming him the leader, organizer, and recruiter. 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. The other was short and quiet, wearing a yellow jacket two sizes too large and a matching scarf. 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. As a child he drew and painted and his abilities led him to consider a career as an artist whilst at High School. . As a precautionary measure, they left the books in the car. Near the boiler he also jerry-rigged a greenhouse for growing marijuana. Opposite him there is another young man, fully fleshed and with a neat haircut, resting in a chair, staring into space. 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. The set was one of fewer than 200 produced. Warren also ordered four stun guns over the Internet. Both boys were spitting images of Mr. Stephens and Mr. Williams. They think we have [the books]. The crew arrived in New York City early Sunday morning. The severity of the requested sentences was predicated on the dual propositions that, although the Audubon volumes had never been physically removed from the library, according to the letter of the law they were nonetheless stolenincreasing the monetary value of the crimeand that the Black Cobra Stun Pen used to subdue B. J. Gooch not only inflicted physical harm but was in actuality a dangerous weapon. Worse still for the defendants, B. J. Gooch's ordeal had become a cause clbre among librarians, many of whom wrote letters to the judge arguing against leniency. I think we all knew that we wanted something different, and we had to break away from where we were living. 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. After researching auction houses online, Warren singled out Christies in New York. She described one of the young men as about six feet tall, with bleached-blond hair, well dressed in a nice suit, and very talkative. Spencers journey as an aspiring artist may at first appear wholly inimical to achieving that end, though significantly the challenges he faced are far from unique to most aspiring artists. A female detective went undercover as a Transy student, tailing Spencer while a team staked out the yellow bungalow. 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. If you want to do something, you should figure out how you are going to do it. 2023 Cond Nast. 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. Over the phone and by e-mail, Beckman had asked to view, among other items, a first edition of Charles Darwins On the Origin of Species and four double-size folios of John James Audubons Birds of America. He thought he was much better than everybody else, and he got to the point where he wasnt like us. That's what we were doing, kind of living this little Matchstick Men, college kind of life.. He feared being restricted in any way. 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. They had reserved a room in the same Midtown Hilton that Spencer and Warren had stayed in nearly a year earlier. . Faced with overwhelming evidence, they all eventually confessed. Having concluded that the next logical stage of his development was to study art in college he enrolled at Transylvania University in Kentucky. The ground floor quickly filled with shouting cops, screaming young women, and a few dazed men in boxer shorts. So I walk off happy, come back to the States, and blow Spencers mind.. Im not sure, but it was a lot. Believe me, you havent heard the last of us yet.. 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. Im not going to lie. The set was one of fewer than 200 produced. Pink, in this case to Chas. And that's when I came up. 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?. Oct 16, 2018. agents poured in over the wreckage. The painting, in digital form, would become a popular screen saver on the F.B.I. 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. and having to sign a fucking book. By hitting the ball back into Warren's court, Spencer thought he would keep that thrilling flicker of criminality burning for a bit longer, while fully expecting there to be an insurmountable obstacle somewhere down the road. When Halloran inquired about them, Spencer spoke up and offered to fetch them from the car. In exchange, Barry slipped him an e-mail address with instructions to sign off any communication with the name Terry. I'm expecting when I get up there it's going to be taken care of and I'm just going to start lifting books. They climbed onto dorm roofs, where they'd stake out the library for hours at a time, marking down the comings and goings of teachers, students, and security personnel. Aside from harming B. J. Gooch, Spencer, Warren, and Eric maintain that they have no regrets. Spencer's life story and his practice are indelibly linked, thus the works he has created are a highly personal meditation on the journey Spencer Reinhard experienced. Abstraction allows me to explore multiple paths of my creative desire. [This librarian] doesn't know what we're carrying, but she's like, Where did these kids come from? Eric says. Spencer gives me 500 bucks, in my pocket. During our interview Eric told me, He was like just a weight on us. The plan will continue to grow and mature as the leader goes forward. Warren was like, Ive talked to these guys. Like if we ever get caught, were talking about international issues, way past interstate commerce or whatever the hell it is.. and Lexington police put the pair under surveillance. 2023 Cond Nast. 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. We can never go back if we wanted toI would rather have not been busted, but all I can say is it feels right in here, and before, in college, it just never did., I remember talking to Eric and Warren one day and I was like, So what, they're going to put us in jail, says Spencer. Spencer Reinhard and Warren Lipka had grown up together in adjacent subdivisions on Lexington's south sidefully planned residential tracts wedged in between the city and the gradually receding horse country that rings it. We will be stronger, better, wiser for going through this together, the three of us. (Having seen their fair share of heist movies, they knew how dangerous it was to leave a paper trail.) Now we cant ever go back there. See also Both boys were spitting images of Mr. Stephens and Mr. Williams. We figured, All right, well, now we just got what we thought would be impossible possibly taken care of, Spencer tells me. 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 other two would wait around the block in the S.U.V. You know, most people look at that painting as if it was a plan destined to fail, but at the same time, we were planning to fail., In a few years we'll be released. He was still enrolled, but only nominally, and remained on the fringes of campus life. They checked into the Hilton Hotel in Midtown, Warren signing in under the nom de guerre Harry Ballsania name backed up with one of their fake Kentucky drivers licensesand paying in cash. He took a cab to Dam Square, an old hippie hangout in the center of the city he had read about on the Internet. She described one of the young men as about six feet tall, with bleached-blond hair, well dressed in a nice suit, and very talkative. Twelve million dollars, just sitting there? 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. After four years in New Jersey I was released back to Lexington where I lived with my parents and continued to paint. When the four boys were arrested the news was met with disbelief, as none of them had been in any serious trouble before. It was during his studies at Transylvania University that Spencer became aware of John James Audubons work, The Birds of America. One evening it occurred to Spencer that they had used the Walter Beckman Yahoo account to contact both Christie's and Gooch. The books were much heavier than the boys had projected, and the pair could handle only three at a time. Even if we wanted to, they won't let us. A 20-man task force of Lexington police and F.B.I. By far the most common theory around town was that the heist had been just a frat prank that spun way out of control. Inside were the books, wrapped in sheets and pillowcases. 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. If not, we were going to get caught and it was going to be a crazy story., And now that weve diverted from that path, we feel liberated, Warren tells me, waving his arms around the room. Speculative plans became actual plans, the plan became a dry run, the dry run became a crime - a botched affair that . That was the point all along. I was kind of skeptical, continues Spencer, but the way I rationalized it was: it's the biggest auction house. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. Yet he did allow and encourage the interpretation of his art as an abrogation of space and time and, above all, history. He was told to look for a bearded, heavyset man in a solid-blue sweater. Leave a message. A Google search of Spencer Reinhard brought up numerous hits for soccer in the Lexington area. Several weeks before Spencer was approached by Warren about the fake-ID business, he had been on a freshman-orientation tour of Transy, including the library and its exceptional collection of rare books and manuscripts. By that point Warren, Eric, and Spencer knew for certain they were going down. Chas promised to return to pick them up in another car after dropping the minivan off at his mom's house. He looked like he was dressed from a thrift store, Halloran told the agents. There were all sorts of theories as to why they had done it: they were drug addicts; they had amassed large gambling debtsor Lipka's father had, and the boys did it to save the family's honor (the variant most popular with the local papers). 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. After a short wait, a young Christie's employee, Melanie Halloran, came out to apologize, as Mr. Leckey, due to an impending public auction, would be unable to see them. 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. She also said that she was so suspicious and put off by the young mens youth and demeanor that she had recommended to her boss that they not pursue the business. This story was recently documented in the feature film American Animals. (Because Spencer was a Transy student, he risked being recognized in the library.) A uniformed doorman cheerily welcomed both boys into the lobby, where they informed reception that they were there for Mr. Walter Beckmans appointment with Thomas Leckey, Christies rare-book specialist. He was also less cordial and more agitated in person, asking Gooch soon after arriving if he could invite a friend along to see the books. 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. 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. Pink, in this case to Chas. Only cannabis-smoking goalkeeper Warren Lipka . 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. We told B.J. very unofficial.. They surveyed the offices of the campus police. I showed artistic ability from a young age and was selected to attend SCAPA in the fourth grade. We will be stronger, better, wiser for going through this together, the three of us. He said his name was John. He's probably thinking I blamed him for [stealing] the money, which I never really did. 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. In fact, wedged in their backpacks was nearly three-quarters of a million dollars' worth of books and manuscripts: an 1859 first edition of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection ($25,000), an illuminated manuscript from 1425 ($200,000), a set of the two-volume 15th-century horticultural masterpiece entitled Hortus Sanitatis ($450,000), 20 original Audubon pencil drawings ($50,000), and Audubon's A Synopsis of the Birds of North America ($10,000). Jean Smarts Career Timeline: I Dont Take Any of It for Granted, Donald Trump Calls E. Jean Carroll Rape Lawsuit a Hoax And A Lie; Judge Rules Suit Can Proceed, The former president continues to deny knowing the writer, calling her mentally sick., James Marsden Is Still Hoping for a Happy Ending for Canceled, Jeremy Renner Shares Selfie from Hospital Bed After Snow Plow Accident. . I was surprised he didn't.. I know the collection is extensive and anything you think I might be interested in seeing, by all means, share, he wrote. Spencer called himself Mr. Stephens. because she wanted a new Range Rover, like, what? It had some tennis trivia in there that I wasn't expecting.. The meeting initially hit a snag when Barry was put off by the boys' youth. They tried to come up with some link the cops could make between them and the theft, but they couldnt. Photographed by Nan Goldin at the tender age of 19, just about to release his Tony Richardson film. 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 two men followed the librarian into the Rare Book Room, and John closed the door behind them. The others spent time in the library, too, taking notes on staff routines and viable escape routes. By five P.M., Warrenas Beckmanwas back on the phone with Gooch explaining that he had missed his appointment because he had been out of town on business. Not what I expected, not what I wanted it to be, Warren says. As they ran, they stumbled again into Chas, who had returned in another car as promised, just in time to save them and drive Eric to U.K. for his tennis-class exam. What I found incredibly valuable about prison was the multiculturalism. And I pledged a fraternity, but I really didn't get into that too much. I developed techniques that no one that I know of has done. As they scooted down the stairs their arms gave out and they stopped to catch their breath. Spencer gives me 500 bucks, in my pocket. Eric rented a proper bedroom upstairs, while Spencer moved back into the dorms at Transylvania. 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. 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. and Lexington police put the pair under surveillance. Phase 3 is the escape, which involves switching the G.T.A.V. Bam. Well all be . 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. The stun guns Warren had ordered never arrived, so he drove around town and returned with a Black Cobra Stun Pen, and had Spencer zap him and Eric to test its knockdown power. 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 university's collection, and attacked a librarian in the process. Warren and Eric got out of the G.T.A.V. The other two would wait around the block in the S.U.V. In a duffel bag by his bed an F.B.I. 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. Spencer believed it was an insurmountable problem. Copyright 2023 The Gleaner Company (Media) Limited. That was the plan. 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.. Eric couldnt get hold of his friends car, leaving Chas to borrow a Dodge Caravan his mother was fortuitously selling the next day, the boys say. They said that this set, Birds of America, sold for $12 million. 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