Selasa 14 Jul 2015 19:05 WIB

Fan offers $1 mln reward for Judy Garland's stolen ruby slippers

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REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, MINNESOTA -- "There's no place like home," said Judy Garland in "The Wizard of Oz" and one fan clearly agrees after offering a $1 million reward for information about a pair of the ruby slippers she wore in the film that have been missing for a decade.

The red sequined shoes, one of four pairs the actress wore in the 1939 movie classic, were stolen from the Judy Garland Museum in her hometown Grand Rapids, Minnesota in August 2005.

The museum's executive director John Kelsch told Reuters an anonymous donor -- from Arizona and a "huge fan" of the film -- had come forward two weeks ago with the offer following the museum's "Wizard of Oz" Festival.

"He heard of our efforts," Kelsch said, adding the reward stipulated that the exact current location of the slippers and the name(s) of the perpetrator(s) be communicated.