Two sleuths — a curator and a librarian — in New Paltz, N.Y., helped the F.B.I. track down 200-year-old paintings that were stolen from a historical society in 1972.
Source: New York Times
How Paintings Lost in a Small-Town Art Heist Were Recovered 50 Years Later
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