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University employee steals a quarter million dollars worth of pre-Columbian pottery
By Jaida Joyner, Staff WriterThe pre-Columbian antiquities housed in a glass case in Scharbauer Hall don’t just tell stories from ancient times, they also have a pretty good tale from 2001.
Known as the Moorehead collection in honor of the couple who donated them, the pieces were the center of a heist from TCU and a lawsuit regarding their value.
At the time of the theft, the Andean artifacts were housed in the Mary Couts Burnett Library after Donald and Shelley Moorehead donated them in 1997.
Read more at https://tcu360.com/2024/01/17/unive...llion-dollars-worth-of-pre-columbian-pottery/