456: Ruby Red Handed

True Crime Obsessed

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.2 • 34.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

When the world's most iconic piece of film memorabilia--Judy Garland's iconic ruby slippers--were stolen from a small museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota (yes, Minnesota) in 2005, the world went on high alert. The questions swirled like a Kansas tornado: Who took them, how were such an important piece of American culture able to be swiped in the first place, and most importantly WOULD WE EVER GET THEM BACK? For over a decade, the investigation festered. The police were brainless! The heartless thieves left fans in the lurch, and the only hope was that an unknown hero would have the courage to come forward with information that would solve this case and return the slippers to their rightful place in Judy Garland's home town, because, as everyone knows, there's no place like home.

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0:00.0	My friend Adam is going on a cruise to Mexico with his mom, like on Wednesday.
0:04.2	Do you have any words of advice?
0:06.2	Don't go.
0:07.3	No, be safe, have fun.
0:09.4	Text me when you get home.
0:10.7	Adam, text her when you get home where we're going to worry.
0:19.5	Hi, Julie Meswelly.
0:20.5	Hi, Patrick Hines.
0:21.4	How's it going, girl?
0:22.1	It's going great.
0:23.2	I wish this was a whole hell of a lot gayer, but here we are. Okay, what do we have to tell them about first? And then we'll get into how not gay this is. Don't worry, we're going to plenty of fun, fam. It's just not gay enough. No, we're going to. I mean, we're gay enough. But I'm just saying.
0:35.0	Join the Facebook group, my loves.
0:36.9	It's the True Crime Obsessed podcast discussion group.
0:39.1	It's so fun.
0:39.7	It's so great.
0:40.5	That's also where we Obsessed podcast discussion group.
0:39.0	It's so fun.
0:39.6	It's so great.
0:40.5	That's also where we go to let you know what's going on.
0:42.3	But also the discy. We do that there. Everything we do in the Facebook group, we also do in the discy just differently. Yeah, we do more in the discy. You do? Oh, yeah. But the Facebook group is still fun.
0:50.2	Oh, it's still fun, but that has like, like separate channels.
0:53.1	Oh, yeah.
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