Welcome to No Place Like Home
The Ruby Slippers Are Gone
The Robin Hood of Hollywood
Terribly Happy
Dear Dorothy, Hate Oz, Took Shoes
Who Can You Trust?
Everything Is Lining Up
Very Accomplished Thieves
They Don't Like Being Owned
SERIES SUMMARY
Do you remember the first time you watched The Wizard of Oz? It’s an iconic film that offers both comfort and adventure. And it all begins with the magical ruby slippers. The familiar pair of red shoes that sparkle as Dorothy skips down the yellow brick road. Once of the most famous props in Hollywood movie history, Dorothy’s ruby slippers are a rare collector’s item worth millions. In the summer of 2005, a pair was stolen from the Judy Garland Museum in the small town of Grand Rapids, Minnesota. No Place Like Home is a documentary podcast series that follows a classic heist story against the nostalgic backdrop of one of the most famous movies and Hollywood props of all time. We follow the theft from start to finish, and the mystery that still surrounds the events of the stolen ruby slippers to this day. C13Originals, a Cadence13 Studio, teams up with journalist Ariel Ramchandani and editor Seyward Darby to investigate the strange story that dives into small town suspicions between local cops and the FBI, the fraught relationship between Grand Rapids and its most famous daughter, Judy Garland, and brings listeners inside the peculiar world of Hollywood memorabilia and the market for lost and stolen art. Although the shoes were eventually recovered, there are more questions left than answers. We still don’t know who stole the shoes and where they were hiding for nearly 13 years.

ARIEL RAMCHANDANI - Host
Ariel Ramchandani is a freelance writer based in Brooklyn. Her stories have appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, Pacific Standard, The Atavist Magazine, The Economist’s 1843, WIRED, AFAR, The Economist, and The Wall Street Journal Magazine, among other publications. She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism, where she was a McCormick scholar and a Harrington Prize winner for magazine writing and editing. She was previously an editor and writer for More Intelligent Life and the culture channel of The Economist Online.
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About C13Originals
C13Originals is the division of Cadence13 focused on original storytelling and developing a slate of IP through a new premium level in-house production studio, and creators of top podcast series Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia and the white-collar crime docuseries Gangster Capitalism.
Credits
Executive Producer: Chris Corcoran
Writer: Ariel Ramchandani
Narrator: Ariel Ramchandani, Seyward Darby
Director: Lloyd Lochridge
Editor: Alistair Shurman
Producer: Paige Hymson, Valerie Thomas
Engineering: Bill Schultz, Bob Tabaddor, Sean Cherry, Patrick Antonetti
Mastering: Chris Basil
Research and Production Support: Adam Przybyl, Ian Mandt
Marketing and Publicity: Brian Swarth, Hillary Schupf, Melissa Wester, Meredith Tiger
Series Artwork: Curt Courtenay
Based on reporting by Ariel Ramchandani for Atavist Magazine
About C13Originals
C13Originals is the division of Cadence13 focused on original storytelling and developing a slate of IP through a new premium level in-house production studio, and creators of top podcast series Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia and the white-collar crime docuseries Gangster Capitalism.
Credits
Executive Producer: Chris Corcoran
Writer: Ariel Ramchandani
Narrator: Ariel Ramchandani, Seyward Darby
Director: Lloyd Lochridge
Editor: Alistair Shurman
Producer: Paige Hymson, Valerie Thomas
Engineering: Bill Schultz, Bob Tabaddor, Sean Cherry, Patrick Antonetti
Mastering: Chris Basil
Research and Production Support: Adam Przybyl, Ian Mandt
Marketing and Publicity: Brian Swarth, Hillary Schupf, Melissa Wester, Meredith Tiger
Series Artwork: Curt Courtenay
Based on reporting by Ariel Ramchandani for Atavist Magazine