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Priceless Crimes

Priceless Crimes

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Ever wondered about the untold stories behind history's most audacious art heists? Priceless Crimes uncovers the thrilling world of stolen masterpieces and the cunning minds who take them.

Join us as we delve into the shadowy realm of art theft, exploring everything from legendary museum robberies to intricate forgery schemes. We go beyond the headlines to reveal the meticulous planning, dramatic escapes, and often shocking fates of priceless artifacts.

New episodes arrive daily, Monday through Sunday, at 9:00 AM, bringing you a fresh dose of high-stakes intrigue. Each installment offers meticulously researched narratives, presenting a gripping account of the world's most infamous art criminals and the detectives who hunt them.

Priceless Crimes is for anyone fascinated by unsolved mysteries, true crime with a sophisticated twist, and the allure of hidden treasures. If you're captivated by the intersection of art history and criminal enterprise, this is your ultimate destination.

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  • The Museum Swap: How a Dog Found a $120,000 Fake

    The Museum Swap: How a Dog Found a $120,000 Fake
    Jul 29 2026
    The Museum Swap: How a Dog Found a $120,000 Fake

    A dog groomer’s walk turned into a discovery that exposed a months-long swap: a 1941 Charles Budd oil appraised between $110,000 and $140,000 was found rolled in a drainage gully while a student copy worth $4,000 hung in the museum’s frame. Who replaced the original with a replica, and why did institutional paperwork let a six-figure painting leave the collection?

    In this episode, you’ll hear how the painting was found, what museum records and a single $300 appraisal reveal, and how the Ohio Art Crime Unit began piecing the case together; will the records, the buyer registration, and the deaccession process answer who is responsible?

    Person: Patricia Ames
    Date: February 2019
    Location: Douglas Doyle Trail outside Morrow Falls, Ohio
    Artist: Charles Budd
    Object: February Thaw, Muskingum - oil on linen, 24 by 30 inches

    - The canvas was found rolled inside a black archival sleeve in three inches of snowmelt.
    - The painting was catalogued as lot OH-1988-114 after acquisition in 1988 from a Dunmore estate.
    - The original Budd was appraised between $110,000 and $140,000; the student copy was valued at $4,000.
    - The Overton Museum’s deaccession file contained a single $9,800 appraisal produced by Cornerstone Art Advisory for a $300 fee.
    - The Overton board approved the deaccession in June 2018 and the auction occurred in September 2018 with the buyer registering as Raymond Ogle.

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    17 Min.
  • The River Returned What a Forger Tried to Hide: 1 of 200 Found

    The River Returned What a Forger Tried to Hide: 1 of 200 Found
    Jul 28 2026
    The River Returned What a Forger Tried to Hide: 1 of 200 Found

    The chill of a January morning revealed a sealed tube that floated four miles down the Cassidy River carrying a single authentic lithograph from a numbered edition of two hundred - while the other 199 sat as convincing forgeries in a gallery flat file; how did one original end up hidden and then lost in a river? What unseen flaw in the scheme let a fisherman, a sheriff's office and a careful loupe unravel months of calculated deception?

    In this episode, we present the sequence of events from discovery to investigation, describing how the tube was found, what experts observed under raking light, and the gaps that remain about dozens of missing originals; how did packaging, paper and a fisherman's routine expose the fraud?

    Person: Robert Adair
    Person: William Pryce
    Location: Cassidy River, four miles south of Pelham, Indiana
    Date: January 9, 2011
    Event: Discovery of authentic lithograph sealed in a tube

    - The tube floated four miles down the Cassidy River before snagging on a fisherman's trotline on January 9, 2011.
    - The print was marked in pencil near the lower margin "5/200 - R. Adair" and measured eighteen by twenty-four inches.
    - William Pryce, age seventy-four in 2010, had collected all two hundred prints over fifteen years, valuing the complete edition at $430,000.
    - The gallery, Ashton Fine Works in Bloomington, had been in business for twenty-two years and was entrusted with Pryce's consignment in autumn 2010.
    - Investigators found one authentic print recovered from the river while one hundred and ninety-nine inkjet reproductions remained in the gallery's flat files.

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    20 Min.
  • The Canvas in the Ditch: How a Forgery Fell Apart Overnight

    The Canvas in the Ditch: How a Forgery Fell Apart Overnight
    Jul 27 2026
    The Canvas in the Ditch: How a Forgery Fell Apart Overnight

    A discarded oil painting, found face-up in a frozen drainage ditch at 6:14 AM, turned out to be a near-perfect copy of a modestly collectible Cincinnati portrait-and it had been thrown there less than nine hours earlier. Who copied a family heirloom, how a junior cataloguer ended up buying the lot he processed, and why a forged provenance unraveled within a day are questions that push this small fraud into a study of panic and careless choices.

    In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the discovery in Warren County to the auction sale and the paper trail that followed, tracing every decision that made the forgery collapse; what really happened between the consignor, the auction house staff, and the buyer?

    Person: Nicole Wells
    Time: 6:14 AM
    Date: December 4
    Location: Eastern edge of Warren County, Ohio
    Item: "Portrait of a Woman in Gray," oil on canvas, 16 x 20 inches

    - The painting was discovered face-up in a frozen drainage ditch at 22 degrees Fahrenheit.
    - The canvas carried a scratched monogram attributed to Rosalind Weir, who died in 1981.
    - The original had hung in Dorothea Pryce's living room since 1963 after a private sale from the artist.
    - Sarah Henderson, age 33 and self-trained, painted two versions and consigned the copy in September using a PO box paid in cash.
    - Lot 114 sold for $4,200 and the certified personal bank check was written by Seth Adler, the 26-year-old junior cataloguer who noted a two-inch vertical compression crease in his private notebook.

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    19 Min.
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