There's no place like home.
Federal authorities announced Tuesday that ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in "The Wizard of Oz" have been recovered 13 years after they were stolen from a museum.
According to the Associated Press, the shoes went missing in 2005 when someone broke into a small display case at the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Rolling Stone reports the burglar entered through a back door window and left no fingerprints; the only evidence left behind was a single red sequin.
A press conference detailing the recovery is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon and will include the FBI's Minneapolis office, the North Dakota U.S. Attorney's Office, and the Grand Rapids Police Department.
"I literally felt like I was hit in the stomach when I got the call," the shoes' owner, collector Michael Shaw, told Newsweek in 2015. "My knees buckled, and I went right down on the floor. I had taken care of those shoes for 35 years!"
According to Entertainment Weekly, the shoes were one of four pairs worn by Garland as Dorothy in the 1939 film based on "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by Chittenango native L. Frank Baum. Leonardo DiCaprio and director Steven Spielberg acquired one of the other pairs in 2012 for display in the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, due to open next year.
The heroine's shoes were silver in the original books, but changed for the movie to make more of a color spectacle. MGM still owns the copyright on the ruby slippers, which is why you don't see Dorothy wearing them in other "Oz" adaptations even though Baum's works are now in the public domain.
The famous heels were reportedly insured for $1 million. An anonymous donor also offered a $1 million reward for their recovery; it's unclear if anyone will collect.
In the movie, Dorothy clicked her heels three times to get back to her home in Kansas after an adventure in Oz with Scarecrow, the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion and her little dog Toto. The Wicked Witch of the West kept trying to take the shoes off Dorothy because they originally belonged to her sister, who died when Dorothy's house crash-landed on top of her.