DU darlings! Welcome to your Friday Afternoon Challenge. Today: “Hey, what’s Going On?”

[countryjake]

72. Did you read pinboy's yahoo article?

The local bishop produced only a fraction of the ransom demand and more extortion letters followed.

Then Goedertier died, yielding another clue in his apparent confession: "In my office ... drawer ... closet." There, copies of the old extortion letters and the draft of a new one were found.

Adding to the theft's mystique, this last one read: "'The Just Judges' are in a place where neither I nor anyone else can take it without drawing the public's attention." Police also found indecipherable drawings possibly pointing to a hiding place...

One of the more popular theories is that Goedertier, a stockbroker, may never have taken the panel out of the cathedral, but hidden it somewhere inside. But lifting every pane or tile in the massive St. Bavo would carry a prohibitive cost and risk damaging the historic edifice.


You are so lucky to have seen it! I can imagine myself poking around in the St. Bavo, tapping on things, peering behind stuff looking for secret hiding places; they'd throw my butt outta there quick! The most stolen artwork of all time, tho, amazing. I can't help but wonder if that mob of Calvinists had succeeded in burning it, early on, would we ever have even heard of it?