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A federal prosecutor said he would not seek prison time for 76-year-old Terry Jon Martin, who is reportedly receiving hospice care.

FILE - A pair of ruby slippers once worn by actress Judy Garland in the "The Wizard of Oz"

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A man charged in the museum heist of a pair of ruby slippers that Judy Garland wore in the “The Wizard of Oz” pleaded guilty Friday in a deal

A man charged with the museum heist of a pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the "The Wizard of Oz" pleaded guilty Friday, pulling back the curtain on a whodunit mystery dating back 18 years.

The famous slippers were stolen from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids in 2005.

A man charged with stealing a pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the “The Wizard of Oz” has pleaded guilty in a deal that could keep him out of prison due to his failing health. Seventy-six-year-old Terry Jon Martin appeared in federal court in Duluth, Minnesota, on Friday and pulled back a little of the curtain on a mystery that dates back 18 years. The shoes were stolen in 2005 from the Judy Garland Museum in the late actor’s hometown of Grand Rapids, Minnesota, an...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A man charged in the museum heist of a pair of ruby slippers that Judy Garland wore in the

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- A man charged in the museum heist of a pair of ruby slippers that Judy Garland wore in the "The Wizard of Oz" pleaded guilty Friday in a deal that could keep him out of prison due to his failing health, but only cleared up some of the mystery that dates back 18 years.

A 76-year-old man fessed up to the snatching of the iconic ruby red slippers Dorothy wore in "The Wizard of Oz" from a museum back in 2005.

But much of the mystery remains unclear.