December 17, 2004: Transy Book Heist

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🗓️ 17 December 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Two college students entered the Transylvania University's Special Collections Library in Lexington, Kentucky, and stole an estimated $735,000 worth of books. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Friday, December 17th, 2021.
0:07.0	On this day in 2004, college students in Lexington, Kentucky stole several books from Transylvania University's special collections library.
0:22.0	Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.
0:25.7	Down time can be just fine, plain bangers from the 90s.
0:29.9	Tea break.
0:30.9	Lunch break.
0:31.8	Maybe listen to the outbreak.
0:33.8	Sometimes it's not time for some tombole, right?
0:36.7	It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time.
0:42.5	Go on, play some other time.
0:44.4	Put your phone down.
0:45.6	Tombola.
0:46.5	Open for fun.
0:48.2	Terms apply 18 plus gambleaware.org.
0:53.2	Welcome to Today in True Crime, a Spotify original from Parcast.
0:58.0	Today we're covering the Transylvania University book heist.
1:02.1	Let's go back to the morning of December 17th, 2004 in Lexington, Kentucky.
1:09.5	It was a busy day on campus as students finished up their final examinations ahead of winter break.
1:15.6	But inside the Special Collections Library, which contained the university's rarest books, things were calm.
1:22.6	Betty Jean Gooch, the Special Collections Librarian, had an appointment scheduled for that morning with a man named Walter Beckman.
1:30.7	He wanted to see a handful of their most valuable items.
1:34.0	Along with some other items, these included a first edition copy of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species,
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