#301 The Dali Art Heist of Riker's Island

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Society & Culture, True Crime

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🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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The Riker's Island Art Heist happened on March 1st 2003, when four prison guards had the brilliant idea to steal an original Salvadore Dali painting, although not his best work, but still, an original Dali, and replace it with an elementary copy. The story of how the painting got there in the first place is almost as good as the heist itself! Check out our other shows!: Cryptic Soup w/ Thena & Kylee Strange & Unexplained True Crime Guys YouTube EVERYTHING TRUE CRIME GUYS: https://linktr.ee/Truecrimeguysproductions True Crime Guys Music: True Crime Guys Music on Spotify OhMyGaia.com Code: Crimepine Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Patreon.com/sandupodcast Merch: truecrimeguys.threadless.com Sources: https://hardcrackers.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/B1E1DAC9-D8FC-4D23-8CA4-DAA67115BF75.jpeg Check out the Painting! here:https://hardcrackers.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/B1E1DAC9-D8FC-4D23-8CA4-DAA67115BF75.jpeg https://hardcrackers.com/crucifixion-rikers-ysland/

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to True Crime Guys podcast. I'm your host Michael, and you know Andy's here, freezing with me.
0:09.9	Oh my God, Michael.
0:11.7	It's like we're always complaining. It's either too hot or it's too cold, Andy. What the hell?
0:14.9	These morning shoots, baby, in the wintertime, oh my God.
0:19.9	What do you mean? I turned the heater on a whole hour ago. Oh, a whole hour. A whole hour ago, Andy. It's perfectly content. It's perfectly on. It's okay. It'll be great in here in about five hours. Right. Tomorrow is great. Long after we're gone. But guys, before we get into this, this is one of the Palet Cleanser type cases. I believe so. Honestly, they're fun. I love these art heist cases because there's nothing you can't joke about, you know what I'm saying? But I like this one in particular because it's Dolly. And I am, you know, if you don't know me, I'm a huge Dolly fan. I have three
0:54.2	dolly paintings in my room. I freaking love Dolly. Some of the art you've done yourself has some very
1:00.0	dolly inspirations behind it. Big inspiration to me, absolutely. And when I found out that one of
1:05.9	his paintings was stolen, I was intrigued, but it's even funnier of the painting, which I have linked in the sources
1:13.8	below the description of this episode.
1:15.9	Go down there in the sources and I put, you know, check out the painting here.
1:19.2	It's cool.
1:19.9	It's actually a picture of when the painting was presented to the prison.
1:23.9	Mm-hmm.
1:24.5	Okay.
1:25.4	And it's a depiction of the crucifixion. Yeah. Okay. But what's funny about the picture
1:30.7	that I've linked is that in the background, you see another picture of another painting of the
1:37.7	crucifixion already hung on the wall in the jail. And it's just comical how silly it looks.
1:44.8	Comparatively?
1:45.3	You really need to check it out.
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