It’s the details that separate the criminal from the ordinary mind. If UD were – like Barry Landau and Jason Savedoff, the Batman and Robin of historic document theft – going to steal and then sell our nation’s heritage, she’d take the treaties and letters and all, but she wouldn’t think to remove their card catalog entries so that there wouldn’t be a record of the documents having been in the library or the museum in the first place.
I mean, now, when she reads that the guys did that, sure… it makes perfect sense … remove your footprints …
This article features a photo of the innocent University of Vermont library, an easy mark for Barry and Jason (they got 67 documents).
This article features Savedoff pleading guilty.
October 28th, 2011 at 7:21AM
One advantage of the new world–pulling cards is easy, but hacking into the electronic database to remove the entry for the document requires a different set of talents.