Ep. #95 - What If You Got Away With It? - Part 2 - Alter Family, de Koenig Heist

The What If? Podcast

Spencer Wirth-Davis & Ryan Kopperud

Society & Culture

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In 1985 in Tucson, Arizona, two people walked into an art museum, cut a painting worth more than $100 million out of it's frame, and walked out. The Willem de Kooning piece was missing for over 30 years before it was recovered in an estate sale of a couple who lived just 200 miles from where the painting was taken.

To this day the questions remain: Did the Alter family steal this nearly priceless piece of art, just to hang it behind the door in their bedroom? If not, how did it come into their possession? Did they try to sell it? Is this a modern day Bonnie and Clyde situation? Is it the most innocent and romantic crime we've heard of? Maybe. Maybe.

Hot Topics: A Museum Of Our Own, OopsThatsYours.com, The Sweary Boys: International Art Thieves, and much more.

Outro music by Guante & Big Cats

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0:00.0	Hi man! How are you?
0:05.0	I'm okay. What's going on in your life? How do you feel today?
0:09.0	Uh, yeah, today's pretty good. Yeah, a little, a little hectic, but good hectic.
0:15.0	Why is, why hectic?
0:16.0	Hmm. I decided to put out two records like a week apart from each other.
0:20.0	Oh yeah, why not? Yeah, you know. Sometimes you work on shit for like a week apart from each other. Oh yeah, why not?
0:21.0	Yeah, you know.
0:21.9	Sometimes you work on shit for like a year and then it falls into place all at the same time.
0:26.6	Yeah, and you may or may not also be having our 100th episode celebration.
0:31.6	Yep, that's in there too.
0:32.6	Same month.
0:33.6	And then the day after we both go to Portland.
0:35.6	Hey! And then it turns out I'm going straight from Portland to L.A.
0:39.4	So I got a busy month ahead of me.
0:41.2	I don't know who it was.
0:42.8	Somebody was like, yo, if you go to the West Coast, do a meet and greet.
0:46.6	But we're not really going to have time to do a meet and greet?
0:49.8	I know, which sucks because at least Sam from Not Alone is out there at the same time as we are.
0:55.6	Oh, no way.
0:56.7	And going to see Mbim Bam live Friday night.
1:00.6	Oh, really?
1:01.3	That same weekend?
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