A witness had written down a license-plate number, but it was way off. All four were brought to Lexington police headquarters and individually interrogated by F.B.I. 2023 Cond Nast. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. A uniformed doorman cheerily welcomed both boys into the lobby, where they informed reception that they were there for Mr. Walter Beckmans appointment with Thomas Leckey, Christies rare-book specialist. 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. By far the most common theory around town was that the heist had been just a frat prank that spun way out of control. Leave a message. A Google search of Spencer Reinhard brought up numerous hits for soccer in the Lexington area. A member of the RJRGLEANER Communications Group. Along the way a stoned Spencer read aloud from the purloined first edition of On the Origin of Species, particularly fascinated by the section on how the ears of domesticated animals have drooped over generations due to the disuse of the muscles of the ear from the animals not being much alarmed by danger.. The four men. The F.B.I. 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. Spencer was born in 1984 in Lexington Kentucky. Wedged in among the other houses on Beaumont Avenue, a quiet residential street near the U.K. campus, is a beaten-down yellow cinder-block bungalow, with two bedrooms on the second floor and two on the first. . Titled A Plan to Fail, it was part of a series he had done on the crime for a local art gallery while out on bond. 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 we'll be released. 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. He was whisked into a squad car. I showed artistic ability from a young age and was selected to attend SCAPA in the fourth grade. Far from being social outcasts, they had been popular athletes, and two were on some form of college scholarship. 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 . No response. On the morning of December 17, 2004, Betty Jean Gooch, a librarian in the Special Collections Library at Transylvania University, in Lexington, Kentucky, was preparing for her 11 oclock appointment with Walter Beckman, a man she had never met. He was still enrolled, but only nominally, and remained on the fringes of campus life. [Beckman] said, B.J., a nickname her friends and colleagues used for her, she told officers. 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. See, we have no choice now but to create something new, someplace else. 214 E Main StLexington, KY United States 40507, (Shift + Enter to play/pause. Chas cursed Warren as an incompetent, and condemned the other two as burnouts, demanding that the three figure out a way to get the books appraised so they could move on to the next phase of the plan. They had reserved a room in the same Midtown Hilton that Spencer and Warren had stayed in nearly a year earlier. We live in 10 months of the year in Colombia and spend two in the States. With a long, thin face and bleached-blond hair and sideburns, he appeared younger than Gooch had expected. The meeting lasted no more than 15 minutes, but still, it was a turning point because the men explained to Warren a crucial step of selling rare books, stolen or otherwise: appraisal by a legitimate auction house. I still feel like I have a long way to go to reach my full potential, and I think Jamaica will be an integral step in that direction., American visual artist Spencer Reinhard, an artist-in-residence at Blue Macaw in Boscobel, St. Mary, The ornithologist in Spencer Reinhard takes gaze. By signing up you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. A painting by Reinhard, a gifted artist, may offer some clues. All four were brought to Lexington police headquarters and individually interrogated by F.B.I. It had some tennis trivia in there that I wasn't expecting.. Nothing panned out until mid-January, when, following a federal subpoena, Yahoo delivered all the data on its servers related to the walter.beckman@yahoo.com address. Cops entered the basement, a dank pit reeking of marijuana, and found Warren sprawled out on a mattress. They surveyed the offices of the campus police. They also noticed a group of people lingering in the Rare Book Room. The plan for the actual robbery sets out three distinct phases. Believe me, you haven't heard the last of us yet.. That was the plan. Only cannabis-smoking goalkeeper Warren Lipka . [This librarian] doesn't know what we're carrying, but she's like, Where did these kids come from? Eric says. Spencer assembled a small wardrobe of fake beards, gray wigs, and costume glue. The take could be more than $5 million. When not at practice, Warren spent his time smoking pot, watching Comedy Central, and reading German philosophy. But even at that point, it became apparent that Warren and Spencer wouldn't be able to pull it off alone. We can do a license, but now we need a passport. So he says, Come see me in a couple of days or a week, but I need money, $2,500. All right, you know, just another thing, O.K., 2,500 bucks. I guess when we did that she went upstairs to check on B.J.. Warren jumped at the opportunity and recruited another adrift freshman, his old high-school soccer teammate Eric Borsuk, as a partner. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. He's probably thinking I blamed him for [stealing] the money, which I never really did. The thieves left no fingerprints behind, and there were almost no witnesses. It didn't take long to tie in Eric and Chas. Afterward, he was to call Eric up to haul the books in two trips to the G.T.A.V., which was to be driven by Chas. This ultimately led to the life changing events chronicled in the 2018 film American Animals. Spencer believed it was an insurmountable problem. It was hard for us. Shift + Tab to replay. As they took their seats in the conference room, Warren explained that he and Mr. Stephens are the sole representatives of Walter Beckman, whom he described as a very private individual from Boston who had recently inherited several valuable rare books and manuscripts. 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. Because of the expense, only Warren made the trip, touching down at Amsterdams Schiphol Airport on a Saturday morning in early March 2004. Warren introduced himself as Mr. Williams. I never intended to paint them and I resisted the idea but in the end I couldnt help but indulge the irony. Eric dropped the books, and he and Warren made a run for it. I was surprised he didn't.. Quote tagged! I've met with them, Eric continues. In high school, Warren, a lanky six-footer with a mop of brown hair, was a popular jock and a class clown who delighted his classmates by bear-hugging his nemesis, the dean of students, at graduation. 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. More important, the basement was secluded. [This librarian] doesnt know what were carrying, but shes like, Where did these kids come from? Eric says. Spencer, meanwhile, was accepted to Transylvania on an arts scholarship, his sights firmly set on a career in graphic design. The three then take the staff-only elevator down to the bottom floor and escape out the west fire exit. We spoke about his paintings, especially A Plan to Fail. It was the sense of redemption that I hadn't anticipated. They were skeptical, Warren recalls. Im not sure, but it was a lot. sent a team to interview Melanie Halloran, who told the agents about her meeting with Mr. Stephens and Mr. Williams. The painting is a kaleidoscope of images, including what appears to be a computer, a cell phone, a bong, the Transylvania library, and loose sheets of notepaper, floating above a desiccated. All these girls I could draw better than when I was in sixth grade.. After a brief discussion they chose Chas Allen, a handsome, clean-cut U.K. business major who had started the lawn-care company with Eric the previous summer. 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. As she inspected the items, Halloran dutifully took notes, then asked a few questions regarding their provenance, which Spencer answered as best he could under the circumstances. After researching auction houses online, Warren singled out Christie's in New York. Returning five minutes later with a rolling red suitcase in tow, Spencer opened it on the conference table. The plan will continue to grow and mature as the leader goes forward. When Warren arrived, he saw a man fitting that description seated with three other men. The minimum-security Federal Correctional Institution in Ashland, Kentucky, 125 miles from Lexington, houses approximately 1,200 inmates in multi-story cellblocks encircled by concentric layers of razor-topped fencing and fortified guard towers. A witness had written down a license-plate number, but it was way off. The press invariably described them as good boys from good familiesupper-middle-class kids afforded every opportunity, the ones with the most to lose. 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. The three then take the staff-only elevator down to the bottom floor and escape out the west fire exit. (Having seen their fair share of heist movies, they knew how dangerous it was to leave a paper trail.) 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. Now we cant ever go back there. Phase 1 ends when the G.T.A.V. The next day, they worked off their hangovers by checking out Ground Zero before strolling into the bustle of Chinatown for lunch. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. Handwriting can be an important piece of evidence in a criminal investigation. If we got away with it, we'd be in Europe living this crazy life thinking we were Ocean's 11 types. I was born in Lexington, Kentucky and was raised by my wonderful parents in what was a largely carefree and happy childhood. Nothing like a six year prison sentence to get the creative juices flowing. 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. Spencer, feeling increasingly disaffected with school life himself, readily accepted the offer. Spencer Reinhard and Warren Lipka had grown up together in adjacent subdivisions on Lexingtons south sidefully planned residential tracts wedged in between the city and the gradually receding horse country that rings it. as we left we were going to make an anonymous phone call so they knew she was up here, Eric continues. On the morning of December 16, Warrens carefully scripted plan began to unravel almost immediately. See also Boom. Eric and Chas dropped Warren and Spencer off around the corner from Christie's. Even if we wanted to, they won't let us. In the morning, Warren says, he left two messages with Leckey's secretary and two more that afternoon. Reinhard is here for a monthlong working visit at the invitation of Bianca Bartley and Zuar Jarrett, the programme director and chairman, respectively, of the recently launched creative initiative in St Mary targeting local and foreign artists spanning various disciplines. He took a cab to Dam Square, an old hippie hangout in the center of the city he had read about on the Internet. 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 Chappelle's Show. sent a team to interview Melanie Halloran, who told the agents about her meeting with Mr. Stephens and Mr. Williams. Ive met with them, Eric continues. Suddenly without Erics mock-ups, software, and equipment, Warren thought of Spencer. 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. received two additional pieces of evidence from Christie's: security-camera footage of the meeting and a cell-phone number the men had left behind. That afternoon they worked their way back uptown, to scope out Christie's steel-and-glass headquarters before their Tuesday appointment. I see Warren and Eric bust out of the back door, Spencer says, describing what he saw unfold from his lookout position. The fourth, Charles Chas Allen II, had been transferred to a federal medical center in Lexington.) 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 Erics drawer. Spencer was arrested in a simultaneous raid on his dorm room at Transy. The day of the heist was to be Thursday, December 16, one of the last days of final examsthe library would be nearly empty. The untold story of the Transy Book Heist is one part Ocean's 11, one part Harold & Kumar: four Kentucky college kids who had millions to gain and nothing to lose. 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. This is the story you didnt get from the film. from an unsuspecting friend and got his hands on zip ties, a wool cap, electrician's tape, and bedsheets. A female detective went undercover as a Transy student, tailing Spencer while a team staked out the yellow bungalow. The other was short and quiet, wearing a yellow jacket two sizes too large and a matching scarf. The severity of the requested sentences was predicated on the dual propositions that, although the Audubon volumes had never been physically removed from the library, according to the letter of the law they were nonetheless stolenincreasing the monetary value of the crimeand that the Black Cobra Stun Pen used to subdue B. J. Gooch not only inflicted physical harm but was in actuality a dangerous weapon. Worse still for the defendants, B. J. Goochs ordeal had become a cause clbre among librarians, many of whom wrote letters to the judge arguing against leniency. Built over old tobacco fields in the 80s, they feature ponds with fountains, cookie-cutter brick Colonial houses, street names like Ironbridge Drive and Turnberry Lane, and regulations authorizing penalties for unkempt yards and tacky lawn Santas. Chas not only lived in the yellow bungalow but also was a part owner of it with his father, a prominent Lexington real-estate investor. Phase 2 ends when the loot is loaded into the G.T.A.V. Warren went up to the third floor to meet Gooch, while Eric waited downstairs for him to call. They went back up in the elevator, accidentally stopping on the main floor, where they were spotted by another librarian. Warren also ordered four stun guns over the Internet. After four years in New Jersey I was released back to Lexington where I lived with my parents and continued to paint. I'm utterly curious about decision-making | Sharing lessons learned from the thousands of decisions I've studied and made | Founder https://www.resolve.blog. All rights reserved. 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. An American Animals coloring book, as well as original drawings Skip to content Spencer Reinhard Home After Audubon Prison Period Abstract Abstract color series Post prison Abstract About Shop Commissions Contact Menu Home After Audubon Prison Period Ad Choices. The painting is a kaleidoscope of images, including what appears to be a computer, a cell phone, a bong, the Transylvania library, and loose sheets of notepaper, floating above a desiccated one-eyed young man in a watch cap, kicking back on a beat-up couch with a blue dog on his lap. Back at Warrens 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. So we would see parts like that and we would be Oh, this is just like us. Little did the three know that F.B.I. And I pledged a fraternity, but I really didnt get into that too much. and having to sign a fucking book. By hitting the ball back into Warren's 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. (Spencer had had to do a rush job on them because his art-history final had run long.) a plan to fail painting reinhard. We had a few pitchers, feeling each other out. Only by committing a felony could they ensure that they would never end up living back in the sterile, suburban world of the subdivisions. The guys hung out together when they could, with Warren frequently conjuring up fantasiesthrough billowing clouds of marijuana smokeof post-heist life for them in the Mediterranean, complete with sleek catamarans and topless women. Chas backs up [the van] and almost hits the woman as Eric comes around to the door. After a quick powwow in the stacks, the conspirators decided to abort the mission for the time being and retreated to the bungalow. In the morning, Warren says, he left two messages with Leckeys secretary and two more that afternoon. If we got away with it, wed be in Europe living this crazy life thinking we were Oceans 11 types. Because no one would go to Christies with stolen books to get them appraisedthats 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. Aside from harming B. J. Gooch, Spencer, Warren, and Eric maintain that they have no regrets. . Warren went up to the third floor to meet Gooch, while Eric waited downstairs for him to call. I get the call on the cell phone. Even if they did steal the books, for example, how would they ever sell them? Now the hard partwe have to steal them. I was nervous. 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. Improvising on the plan, he kicked Eric and Warren out on the street, believing three men in a gray minivan would draw too much attention. In the fall of 2004, Warren Lipka moved into the unfinished basement. Ezra Millers Messiah Delusions: Inside. Warren jumped at the opportunity and recruited another adrift freshman, his old high-school soccer teammate Eric Borsuk, as a partner. Get the latest chatter, from Kensington Palace and beyond, straight to your inbox. Improvising on the plan, he kicked Eric and Warren out on the street, believing three men in a gray minivan would draw too much attention. He covered his tracks by using public phones and campus computers. 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. We need to just get over this stuff, Eric tells me, explaining how Warren re-entered his life after their falling-out the previous semester. So we ate at Pazzo's pizza pub. Hosted by That night Chas snapped, they say, fearing the Christie's book appraisalthe Jesus bolt holding Warren's entire heist plan togetherwas in danger of falling through. He was just so unbearable. He said, You do that and you are free then to give them to us when you can. O.K., great. In terms of the dollar amount involved and the extraordinary circumstances, the theft was one of the most significant in its history. 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. They went back up in the elevator, accidentally stopping on the main floor, where they were spotted by another librarian. The F.B.I. is parked in front of the library and the four are in 1st Position at bottom of stairs of library.. Forensically examining Instagram accounts, interviews, and police reports, author Kathleen Hale reconstructs their relationship, and ultimately Petitos murder. In all my art classes I was the only guyin with a bunch of girls who didn't have any idea what they wanted to do. They simply ignored him, and the four returned to Lexington. In the fall of 2004, Warren Lipka moved into the unfinished basement. It had been agreed that Warren, with his smooth talk, and Spencer, with his artistic knowledge, would go to the meeting. part of a series on Honesty We will be stronger, better, wiser for going through this together, the three of us. Spencer continued with his heavy schedule of classes, studying, painting, and working out, while Warren returned full-time to U.K. With the pressure mounting, however, Warren was caught shoplifting a TV dinner from a local supermarket, Eric was arrested and charged with D.U.I.police pulled him over not only for running red lights but also because Warren was on top of the car, hanging on to the roof rackand Spencer crashed his Acura Legend. Warren also ordered four stun guns over the Internet. Seeing something in the wayward Warren, the preppy grifter pitched him the idea of selling fake Kentucky drivers licenses in the U.K. dorms. By that point Warren, Eric, and Spencer knew for certain they were going down. 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. Quit struggling, B.J., or do you want to feel more pain? she remembered the man saying. They also did considerable research on the Internet, using such key terms as auction house appraisals, stun guns, and Swiss bank accounts. For inspiration, they watched heist movies like Ocean's 11 and Snatch. 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. They think we have [the books]. Undeterred, Warren introduced himself as Terry, firmly shaking hands before sitting down. notified all the airports in the area, dispatched officers to surrounding neighborhoods, and called the F.B.I. 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. I never intended to paint them and I resisted the idea but in the end I couldn't help but indulge the irony. The other two would wait around the block in the S.U.V. Oh, yeah, he almost got shot, says Eric, laughing. And Eric calls to him. Again, Warren thought otherwise. Despite the differing temperamentsand the disapproval of Spencers parentsthe two were best friends from the age of eight, a friendship that revolved largely around soccer. According to the revised plan, they would ditch the old-man disguises and only Warren and Eric would enter the library. Just days before their arrests the three even took in a movie: Ocean's 12. And one thing led to another and we were just like, Let's put this behind us. And once we get past all of that, we started talking about this plan that he and Spencer have. Around Halloween, Warren drafted a working plan, which he presented to the other three in the basement. Sign up for The Gleaners morning and evening newsletters. All these girls I could draw better than when I was in sixth grade.. Eric Borsuk, Spencer Reinhard, Charles 'Chas' Allen IIand Warren Lipka hatched a grand plan to steal rare books from their uni library Credit: KKYT. The L.P.D. And so I see Warren go back. They jump in the van and peel out around the loop.. Cops entered the basement, a dank pit reeking of marijuana, and found Warren sprawled out on a mattress. Warren had run up the side of the hill and frantically ran off. Im not going to lie. Spencer, meanwhile, was short, wiry, distant, and in many ways Warren's opposite: an over-scheduled, over-achieving, diamond-tipped drill of a kid who excelled at whatever he set himself to. Still shaken from her ordeal, Gooch, in her 50s, told police that shortly after entering the Rare Book Room with the two men she had been struck on the arm with a Taserlike weapon, her hands and feet were bound with zip ties, and a wool cap was pulled over her eyes. Who do we trust?. Jean Smarts Career Timeline: I Dont Take Any of It for Granted, Donald Trump Calls E. 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I know the collection is extensive and anything you think I might be interested in seeing, by all means, share, he wrote. He was visibly unnerved, Warren remembers. Once the boys were inside the library, students stared at the ridiculous old-man disguises. 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. They jump in the van and peel out around the loop.. The two boys sought cover from the cops in the sprawling grounds of the housing projects. A painting by Reinhard, a gifted artist, may offer some clues. Eric would stay on the main floor while Warren subdued Gooch in the Rare Book Room. When Warren arrived, he saw a man fitting that description seated with three other men. We'll all be still young, Warren says. Mr. Beckman now wanted these books appraised. He feared being restricted in any way. 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