The meeting initially hit a snag when Barry was put off by the boys' youth. Spencer Reinhard, Warren Lipka, Eric Borsuk and Charles Allen II were all between the ages of 19 and 20 at the time of the robbery. That night they had dinner at a Japanese restaurant, followed by drinks at the hotel bar, where Warren chummed up to an Iraq veteran, Spencer almost started a brawl after knocking a table full of drinks over, and Eric picked up a middle-aged Brazilian tourist. Warren and Eric got out of the G.T.A.V. and local detectives. The books were much heavier than the boys had projected, and the pair could handle only three at a time. Spencer had underestimated his friends resolve. They tried to come up with some link the cops could make between them and the theft, but they couldn't. The banality of assessments, passing courses for the sake of progression and limited intellectual stimulation meant that Spencers time at university was far removed from his hoped for experience. [Beckman] said, B.J., a nickname her friends and colleagues used for her, she told officers. They're all slim and dressed identically in cheap sneakers and a khaki uniform emblazoned with their incarceration numbers, and all have hair down to their shoulders. She agreed. On the second-floor landing, Chas, in high-end flannel pajamas and thinking they were being robbed, pulled out a derringer, only to drop the weapon at the last moment. agents were sitting behind them the whole time, listening to their every word. And I pledged a fraternity, but I really didnt get into that too much. When an agent called, he got a voice-mail recording, This is Spence. In early 2006, they began serving their sentences in federal prison, with no possibility for parole. Warren and Spencer readied themselves early without waking the others, silently showering, shaving, and putting the finishing touches on their outfits. Oh, yeah, he almost got shot, says Eric, laughing. and Lexington police put the pair under surveillance. Now the hard partwe have to steal them. I was nervous. This is the story you didnt get from the film. Ad Choices, The untold story of the Transy Book Heist is one part, Donald Trump to Evangelicals: You Cant Break Up With Me Because Im Breaking Up With You First, Reality Is Submerged in Fantasy: The Villages Is a Boomers UtopiaAnd Demographic Time Bomb, Maybe instead of being one among many, [this film] will make me the one, a fresh-faced Rob Lowe told us in 1984. Back at Warren's later that afternoon, the boys were transfixed by local coverage of the Transy Book Heist. According to the news, it appeared that neither Gooch nor anyone else was able to provide the police with an accurate description of the boys. Because no one would go to Christie's with stolen books to get them appraisedthat's how we did a lot of stuff, like, we would smoke weed directly under the [security] camera on the Transy campus, park a car right underneath it and then smoke for like an hour. Phase 2 ends when the loot is loaded into the G.T.A.V. The whole operation would have to be completed by 12:30 P.M., as the boys say Chas needed to return the Dodge Caravan to his mother in time for her to sell it, and Spencer and Eric had to get to their final exams in sociology and tennis, respectively. In fact, they all tell me that as the planning picked up in the months before the heist, the three of them came to believe that it was their best and perhaps last chance to create a viable life for themselves after college. So we get the passport from the dude, plane tickets. All four, now 22, children of privilege, products of elite Lexington high schools, are serving seven-year sentences for their parts in the crime. It didn't take long to tie in Eric and Chas. But even at that point, it became apparent that Warren and Spencer wouldn't be able to pull it off alone. A week later came a terse reply, telling Terry that, if he wanted to sell something, he was going to have to come in person to Amsterdam, as that is where I do business. Both Spencer and Warren were thrilleduntil they realized it would require traveling with a passport. Around Halloween, Warren drafted a working plan, which he presented to the other three in the basement. Spencer believed it was an insurmountable problem. The take could be more than $5 million. In fact, wedged in their backpacks was nearly three-quarters of a million dollars worth of books and manuscripts: an 1859 first edition of Charles Darwins On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection ($25,000), an illuminated manuscript from 1425 ($200,000), a set of the two-volume 15th-century horticultural masterpiece entitled Hortus Sanitatis ($450,000), 20 original Audubon pencil drawings ($50,000), and Audubons A Synopsis of the Birds of North America ($10,000). See also Starting with a 1970s Pierre Cardin canary-yellow blazer that had belonged to his grandfather, he wore a dress shirt with an ostentatiously large collar and a gold silk scarf. I developed techniques that no one that I know of has done. That afternoon they worked their way back uptown, to scope out Christies steel-and-glass headquarters before their Tuesday appointment. You know, most people look at that painting as if it was a plan destined to fail, but at the same time, we were planning to fail., In a few years well be released. In the morning, Warren says, he left two messages with Leckeys secretary and two more that afternoon. She described one of the young men as about six feet tall, with bleached-blond hair, well dressed in a nice suit, and very talkative. Because this is so much bigger than anything we've done before.. That was the plan. I was not in my ordinary largely white existence anymore. The next morning, all nerves, he left for the meeting site, a caf within walking distance. opens the door for me and Im just like, Holy shit. I quickly came up with some fake name and started walking in and Im like, Oh, shit, this is gonna happen at any moment. So while Im shutting the doors I look back and Warren took her to the ground. They had reserved a room in the same Midtown Hilton that Spencer and Warren had stayed in nearly a year earlier. Ink transfer refers to my unique process of removing the ink from magazine pages and suspending it in layers of gel medium. He was told to look for a bearded, heavyset man in a solid-blue sweater. The stun guns Warren had ordered never arrived, so he drove around town and returned with a Black Cobra Stun Pen, and had Spencer zap him and Eric to test its knockdown power. Chas promised to return to pick them up in another car after dropping the minivan off at his moms house. Writing from walter.beckman@yahoo.com, Warren sent B. J. Gooch an e-mail confirming Beckman's December 16 appointment at the Rare Book Room to view the Audubons and a few other items. Spencer believed it was an insurmountable problem. for a second vehicle at a secret location, which, according to Warrens plan, is used to transport team and loot to temporary resting place. After the heist, since it is certain that the stolen books will be entered into art-theft databases within a week, they have to get the books appraised at Christies in New York immediately. They checked into the Hilton Hotel in Midtown, Warren signing in under the nom de guerre Harry Ballsania name backed up with one of their fake Kentucky drivers licensesand paying in cash. They had reserved a room in the same Midtown Hilton that Spencer and Warren had stayed in nearly a year earlier. We weren't, like, hardened criminals, so we kind of had to really put up a front. Warren deepens his voice: How ya doing? That kind of stuff. After an awkward back-and-forth, Warren finally handed the man the $500. Spencer Reinhard and Warren Lipka had grown up together in adjacent subdivisions on Lexington's south sidefully planned residential tracts wedged in between the city and the gradually receding horse country that rings it. It had some tennis trivia in there that I wasn't expecting.. (The librarian who chased them out of the library did tell police the correct total of four thieves, even though she had seen only three.) What they would tell me, then, is their version of eventsand the only complete account of the planning, execution, and aftermath of the heist. Warren went up to the third floor to meet Gooch, while Eric waited downstairs for him to call. He thought he was much better than everybody else, and he got to the point where he wasnt like us. The books were much heavier than the boys had projected, and the pair could handle only three at a time. We figured the more obvious [we were], the less likely [we would be suspected]., As it was already nearing the end of the school year, and there was a lot of planning yet to be done, they agreed to postpone the theft until at least the fall. It was hard for us. New film American Animals tells the story of one of the most audacious heists in U.S. history when three well off friends Spencer Reinhard, Warren Lipka, Eric Borsuk and Chas Allen decided to try . From the facts that were available, it appeared that a team of four men, described as Caucasian, in their 20s, had stolen some of the most prized books and manuscripts in the universitys collection, and attacked a librarian in the process. Um. In early 2006, they began serving their sentences in federal prison, with no possibility for parole. Because the boys made the highly unusual decision not to accept the prosecutors offer to testify against one another during sentencing in exchange for leniency, they were each sentenced to identical seven-year terms. He was still enrolled, but only nominally, and remained on the fringes of campus life. A 20-man task force of Lexington police and F.B.I. He took a cab to Dam Square, an old hippie hangout in the center of the city he had read about on the Internet. The whole operation would have to be completed by 12:30 P.M., as the boys say Chas needed to return the Dodge Caravan to his mother in time for her to sell it, and Spencer and Eric had to get to their final exams in sociology and tennis, respectively. These people's perspectives, because they have money, they're tweaked., In October of his freshman year, Warren quit the U.K. soccer team, forfeiting his scholarship. Warren jumped at the opportunity and recruited another adrift freshman, his old high-school soccer teammate Eric Borsuk, as a partner. That was the point all along. (Spencer had had to do a rush job on them because his art-history final had run long.) One evening it occurred to Spencer that they had used the Walter Beckman Yahoo account to contact both Christie's and Gooch. Gooch agreed to reschedule for 11 the next morning. So I kind of go, That would be pretty crazy, wouldnt it? He said, Yeah, that would be kind of crazy. I then said, You know, why dont you look into it more and well go from there? Just like . Reinhards works will be exhibited at his residencys final exhibition on May 8, culminating in May 16s big reveal. Ultimately, upon release, his art career has flourished. In the fall of 2004, Warren Lipka moved into the unfinished basement. In the morning, Warren says, he left two messages with Leckey's secretary and two more that afternoon. Meanwhile, Eric lined up the G.T.A.V. American Animals is a 2018 heist film written and directed by Bart Layton.Starring Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan, Blake Jenner, Jared Abrahamson, and Ann Dowd, it follows four college friends who plan a heist of their library.It tells the story of an actual heist which took place at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky in 2004.. American Animals premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film . Phase 2 involves the actual theft, and begins when Spencer takes his position at an upper-floor window of the nearby athletic center, where he will be on lookout. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. The investigation of the Transy Book Heist came to an explosive end on the morning of February 11, 2005, as a SWAT unit broke down the front door of the yellow bungalow with a battering ram, blasting stun grenades throughout the building. That afternoon they worked their way back uptown, to scope out Christie's steel-and-glass headquarters before their Tuesday appointment. To have time to properly apply the disguises, he tried to reschedule his art-history final for later in the day on the 16th, but was unsuccessful. They climbed onto dorm roofs, where they'd stake out the library for hours at a time, marking down the comings and goings of teachers, students, and security personnel. Limited means forced my creativity into new areas. Between studying for his first semester's finals, working out, and painting, Spencer made time to scope out the Special Collections section of the Transy library, reporting back to Warren weeks later that there was zero security other than an old lady librarian named B.J. Warren and Eric got out of the G.T.A.V. As a child he drew and painted and his abilities led him to consider a career as an artist whilst at High School. When an agent called, he got a voice-mail recording, This is Spence. Waiting for the law to snatch them was nerve-racking, but they went on with their lives as if nothing had been amiss. I know now that they were my best years, and if I hadnt gone to prison, they would have been lost to temptations of the so-called free world., Shuttling between his familys adopted home in California, Colombia, and Stateside, Reinhard said: The transition for me has been great. Artistically, it offered me the freedom to make the work I wanted to make without concern for my audience. Between studying for his first semesters finals, working out, and painting, Spencer made time to scope out the Special Collections section of the Transy library, reporting back to Warren weeks later that there was zero security other than an old lady librarian named B.J. and having to sign a fucking book. By hitting the ball back into Warrens court, Spencer thought he would keep that thrilling flicker of criminality burning for a bit longer, while fully expecting there to be an insurmountable obstacle somewhere down the road. By that point Warren, Eric, and Spencer knew for certain they were going down. very unofficial.. As they scooted down the stairs their arms gave out and they stopped to catch their breath. It Was Catastrophic: Inside Prince Andrews Misguided Bid to Explain Away Epstein, In the wake of Jeffrey Epsteins arrest and apparent suicide, Prince Andrew moved from the fringe of a swirling underage-sex scandal toward its white-hot center. a plan to fail painting reinhard. It immediately had kind of sparked my imagination, like a fantasy., O.K., so were sitting in the car, smoking weed, Warren recalls, and then Spencer said, I just took a tour in that library, and theres shit sitting there you wouldnt believe. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. One evening it occurred to Spencer that they had used the Walter Beckman Yahoo account to contact both Christies and Gooch. They were skeptical, Warren recalls. Id heard about them before, but I didnt know anything about them. For footwear he went with clean white sneakers. He said, You do that and you are free then to give them to us when you can. O.K., great. After several phone calls Warren managed to arrange a meeting in New York. That was the point all along. Leave a message. A Google search of Spencer Reinhard brought up numerous hits for soccer in the Lexington area. Mr. Beckman now wanted these books appraised. The Real Spencer Reinhard : To have this, this need to know what is on the other side of that line, and realizing the only way to actually do that is to cross it, there's never a point in your life after that where you haven't already crossed that line. Warren was like, Ive talked to these guys. What I found incredibly valuable about prison was the multiculturalism. The partnership flourished, with Warren as the face of the operation and Eric in charge of ID production, until the two had an argument over $2,000 that went missing from Eric's drawer. LET'S START WITH 10 DAYS OF . Afterward, Warren and Spencer briefed the others, and the four went to lunch, where, the boys say, Chas insisted they spend another night in New York and attempt to see Mr. Leckey the next day. Fuck Biden, Dont Tread on Me, and a Wisconsin Death Trip for Our Times. I was in interaction with people from nearly every country in the Americas, he reflected on the time spent between prisons in Kentucky and Texas. We werent, like, hardened criminals, so we kind of had to really put up a front. Warren deepens his voice: How ya doing? That kind of stuff. After an awkward back-and-forth, Warren finally handed the man the $500. When the four boys were arrested the news was met with disbelief, as none of them had been in any serious trouble before. If you want to do something, you should figure out how you are going to do it. Cops entered the basement, a dank pit reeking of marijuana, and found Warren sprawled out on a mattress. Eric had propped the folios on the steps with his foot when the librarian appeared at the top of the stairs, beside herself with rage after finding Gooch hog-tied in the Rare Book Room. For added anonymity, Warren bleached his hair blond that night. Calculated, mathematical, loose, painterly, spontaneous, 2021 Spencer Reinhard all rights reserved, Please send me the price list, I am interested in purchasing an original Reinhard. A 20-man task force of Lexington police and F.B.I. Writing from walter.beckman@yahoo.com, Warren sent B. J. Gooch an e-mail confirming Beckmans December 16 appointment at the Rare Book Room to view the Audubons and a few other items. It was very punishing, that first couple of months in college. Warren had been convinced after spotting a suspicious man loitering near the yellow bungalowwhen he stepped outside, the man disappeared into an unmarked white van with tinted windows and sped off. We felt bad., Warren and Eric rode the elevator to the basement, but they couldnt find the fire exit. Although the two hadnt really been in contact in the first few months of school, Warren knew that Spencers artistic talents would be an asset. In their senior year the two became local celebrities after a dramatic photo appeared in the Lexington Herald-Leader showing Lexington Catholic star goalkeeper Lipka and Tates Creek forward Reinhard battling midair during a playoff game. After becoming disillusioned with the college experience, I rebelled from the sterile, privileged life I was leading by committing six felonies which famously landed me in prison for 87 months. He loved that it had been made the screen saver on the F.B.I. Seeing something in the wayward Warren, the preppy grifter pitched him the idea of selling fake Kentucky drivers licenses in the U.K. dorms. Amid safety concerns, and anxiety over the fate of a $200 million movie. They think we have [the books]. Spencer called himself Mr. Stephens. Late one Thursday afternoon in mid-February, the two friends bought a bag of weed and drove the 700 miles to Manhattan in Spencer's Acura Legend. His work and practice demonstrates not only the redemptive power of art but the struggle of all artists to articulate and convey their voice and message in an increasingly noisy and distracted world. He was also less cordial and more agitated in person, asking Gooch soon after arriving if he could invite a friend along to see the books. We'll all be still young, Warren says. The other two would wait around the block in the S.U.V. He also didn't have photos, photocopies, documentation, or even the slightest ability to intelligently discuss the books. Warren, under an alias, would make an appointment with Gooch for that afternoon to view the books they wanted to steal. It was just funny because weve been in a lot of places that theyve been, Eric says. They simply ignored him, and the four returned to Lexington. Warren and Chas left the other two and staggered to the nearby China Club, a tacky West Side nightclub, which they knew about from the famous Rick James episode of Chappelles Show. He focused above all on painting, gaining admission into a prestigious Lexington arts program. Spencer Reinhard Please send me the price list, I am interested in purchasing an original Reinhard After Audubon 2014 to Present After prison I took up a casual interest in birds. So we go back down to the bottom floor just to get away from her. All four were brought to Lexington police headquarters and individually interrogated by F.B.I. When Eric let him in on the plan, Chas mocked the three as deluded potheads, he recalls. The next day, they worked off their hangovers by checking out Ground Zero before strolling into the bustle of Chinatown for lunch. When summer break began, the three returned home to the subdivisions of South Lexington. In the fall of 2004, Warren Lipka moved into the unfinished basement. For example, if you want to go on a vacation, you should first decide where you are going and how much money you have . To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. After four years in New Jersey I was released back to Lexington where I lived with my parents and continued to paint. Vanity Fair may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. Among the prisoners are three of the four unlikely masterminds behind the Transy Book Heist: Warren Lipka, Spencer Reinhard, and Eric Borsuk. During our interview Eric told me, He was like just a weight on us. How the hell would we do this? And he said, I know a guy in New York.. as we left we were going to make an anonymous phone call so they knew she was up here, Eric continues. If not, we were going to get caught and it was going to be a crazy story., And now that weve diverted from that path, we feel liberated, Warren tells me, waving his arms around the room. They checked into the Hilton Hotel in Midtown, Warren signing in under the nom de guerre Harry Ballsania name backed up with one of their fake Kentucky driver's licensesand paying in cash. Having told their parents that they were going on a ski trip to West Virginia, that weekend they loaded the loot into Erics Ford Explorer and took off on the 12-hour drive to New York for their Christies appointment. Warren had been convinced after spotting a suspicious man loitering near the yellow bungalowwhen he stepped outside, the man disappeared into an unmarked white van with tinted windows and sped off. She offered to take his place. Not what I expected, not what I wanted it to be, Warren says. par | Mai 29, 2022 | at present, the members of the family hominidae include | fulton county property search qpublic | Mai 29, 2022 | at present, the members of the family hominidae include | fulton county property search qpublic The press invariably described them as good boys from good familiesupper-middle-class kids afforded every opportunity, the ones with the most to lose. is parked in front of the library and the four are in 1st Position at bottom of stairs of library.. I was born in Lexington, Kentucky and was raised by my wonderful parents in what was a largely carefree and happy childhood. The truth is, but for one obvious, big mistakethe trip to Christie'sthey probably would have gotten away with it, a Lexington police detective told me. After a short wait, a young Christies employee, Melanie Halloran, came out to apologize, as Mr. Leckey, due to an impending public auction, would be unable to see them. Phase 1 ends when the G.T.A.V. Inside were the books, wrapped in sheets and pillowcases. 1.7K Followers. After several phone calls Warren managed to arrange a meeting in New York. My son was born in January, so its been a busy time and I plan to take full advantage of the freedom I will have in Jamaica, Reinhard stated. I guess when we did that she went upstairs to check on B.J.. Late one Thursday afternoon in mid-February, the two friends bought a bag of weed and drove the 700 miles to Manhattan in Spencers Acura Legend. Warren sectioned off a bedroom by hanging bedsheets from the rafters and furnished it with an old mattress and a tangerine easy chair he had picked up from Goodwill. I get the call on the cell phone. We're going to need more people, Warren remembers thinking. Each has a different style of facial hairmuttonchops (Lipka), a Fu Manchu (Borsuk), a Tom Selleck (Reinhard)which Lipka informs me they had carefully trimmed for my visit. Behind the main building and through three blastproof security doors is the prison visitors room, where I meet separately with Likpa, Reinhard, and Borsuk for a series of interviews almost a year into their sentence. We will be stronger, better, wiser for going through this together, the three of us. Once safely back in Lexington, the two created a Yahoo account and sent off the e-mail in which they claimed to have unspecified rare books in their possession, using the name Terry, as instructed. Well all be . The three then take the staff-only elevator down to the bottom floor and escape out the west fire exit. At first, we wanted to move to the States as quickly as possible, but we began to see the benefits of living in South America. In exchange, Barry slipped him an e-mail address with instructions to sign off any communication with the name Terry. His malaise was likely exacerbated by his parents impending divorce amid his mothers allegations that his father, Big Warren, the celebrated coach of the universitys womens soccer team, had gambled the family into bankruptcy. Gicle print on Hahnemuhle Photo Paper (Matt 210gr) 2021 Limited edition of 25, all prints are signed and numbered. The meeting ended after 30 minutes, and Ms. Halloran escorted the two out, assuring them that she'd be in touch after conferring with her superiors on the best way forward. Now we can't ever go back there. I think we all knew that we wanted something different, and we had to break away from where we were living. Oh, yeah, he almost got shot, says Eric, laughing. In the fall of 2003, Warren left for the University of Kentucky on a full athletic scholarship, eager to take his game to the next level, and with vague plans of getting into politics. During their sentencing hearing, in December 2005, the federal prosecutor asked for 11 to 14 years each for Eric, Chas, and Spencer, and 14 to 17 years for Warren, deeming him the leader, organizer, and recruiter. What they would tell me, then, is their version of eventsand the only complete account of the planning, execution, and aftermath of the heist. Each has a different style of facial hairmuttonchops (Lipka), a Fu Manchu (Borsuk), a Tom Selleck (Reinhard)which Lipka informs me they had carefully trimmed for my visit. Indeed one might consider these years to be a catalyst with which he could find his unique vision. In between soccer practice, classes, painting, and studying, Spencer drew detailed sketches of the inside of the Special Collections Library and the adjacent Rare Book Room, making several appointments with the Special Collections librarian, Betty Jean Gooch, to scout the premises. 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