Reddit mentions of The Cup And The Lip: Exotic Tales

I missed the AMA, but I really wanted to bring this to these guys' attention. Hopefully someone sees this!



Jerry and Rita Alter



The Theory posted by a reddit user shouts to /u/CUNTY_lOBSTER



Jerry and Rita Alter stole a de Kooning painting from a Tucson museum and kept it hidden in their bedroom until they passed away. Mr. and Mrs. Alter bear a striking resemblance to the sketches from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft. They may have been in the area at the time of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft and the car they drove matches a description of a suspicious car in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft.



The sketches, side by side



Edit: Another article on the Alter's heist



Another Edit: Mr. and Mrs. Alter co-wrote a book called The Cup and the Lip




This NY Times article states,



"In one story, “The Eye of the Jaguar,” a grandmother and her granddaughter steal a 120-carat emerald from a display case in broad daylight, striking when a guard’s attention is focused elsewhere. “Having made their escape with no witnesses present, the thieves left absolutely no clues which the police could use to even begin a search for them!” he wrote.

He ends the story by describing how the stolen gem was later kept in a hidden display case, apparently in the grandmother’s home, “several miles from the place where this event transpired.”

“And two pairs of eyes, exclusively, are there to see,” he wrote."




Video summary of the de Kooning heist - some insights into the alters and a good summary of everything