The Feather Thief

Description:

On a cool June evening in 2009, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist grabbed hundreds of bird skins - some collected 150 years earlier - and escaped into the darkness. Two years later, Kirk Wallace Johnson was consumed by the strange case of the feather thief. What would possess a person to steal dead birds? This is the gripping story of a bizarre and shocking crime, and one man's relentless pursuit of justice.

subjects: NATURE / Animals / Birds,  BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Museum Administration & Museology,  Theft from museums,  Natural history museums,  Natural History Museum (London, England),  Zoological specimens,  TRUE CRIME / General,  Fly tying,  Case studies,  Criminal investigation,  Natural History Museum (London,  England),  Large type books,  Fly tying,  Theft,  Museums, great britain,  Birds, great britain,  Zoological specimens, collection and preservation

People: Edwin Rist

Places: Great Britain