The de Kooning Job: Teachers Turned Thieves

Chameleon

Audiochuck | Campside Media

True Crime, Documentary, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.6 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In 1985, a priceless painting vanished from a university museum in Arizona. The FBI had no leads. 32 years later, it turned up behind a bedroom door in a suburban New Mexico home. Turns out the retired couple living there may have pulled off one of the most audacious art heists of the 20th century.

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0:00.0	Campside Media.
0:05.0	Hello?
0:06.0	What is the...
0:07.0	What do you want me to say?
0:08.0	Oh, it's just a...
0:10.0	Camelion.
0:11.0	Camelian Weekly.
0:13.0	Oh.
0:14.0	On November 29th,
0:16.0	1985, the day after Thanksgiving,
0:19.0	two people, a man and a woman who seemed to be young retirees,
0:23.6	entered the University of Arizona's Museum of Art in Tucson, shortly after opening.
0:29.6	This isn't a heavily traveled museum on the busiest of days, but at that hour, on a Friday, there was virtually no one there. The woman who had
0:39.4	glasses and wore a scarf over her hair stopped to talk to the security guard on duty about a painting
0:44.7	that hung in the museum's stairs, while the man, who had dark hair glasses and a mustache wandered off.
0:51.8	Not too long after, maybe five, at most ten minutes.
0:55.3	The man came back down from wherever he'd been,
0:58.1	met up with a woman, and they both left.
1:00.5	It was a very short museum visit.
1:03.6	It wasn't until the guard on duty took his next walk
1:05.8	through the museum's exhibits, the most routine of duties,
1:08.9	because nothing ever changes in a museum, and was frozen
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