An hour ago Valley News Live as well as on The Today Show moments ago, reported the FBI announced they have located the infamous stolen Michael Shaw Ruby Slippers from the Judy Garland film, "The Wizard Of Oz" have been recovered in Minnesota. Later this afternoon the FBI will hold a full press conference.

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The iconic movie props owned by Hollywood memorabilia collector, Michael Shaw, were stolen from The Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. The slippers on loan to the museum by Mr. Shaw were stolen after 2 a.m. on August 28, 2005, when a thief (or thieves) broke a window in the museum’s back door and easily entered the building which had the alarm system shut off. The criminals approached a Plexiglas case containing the slippers resting on a podium. The thieves then broke the case and grabbed the shoes leaving the way they came in. Nothing else was stolen and no fingerprints or clues were found.

For many years Joe Maddalena CEO and president of the well known historical document & Hollywood memorabilia auction house Profiles in History, has been searching for these same slippers. Mr. Maddalena a recognized as an expert of historical documents, Hollywood memorabilia and comic art has stated for many years that The Wizard of Oz is one of, if not the favorite of his films. He promised Mr. Shaw that he would never give up in trying to find the stolen historical artifacts.  In 2012 Maddalena hosted the wildly successful Sy Fy channel show, "Hollywood Treasure" and offered an additional $10,000 for information on the whereabouts of the slippers.