. But their plan was flawed — and instead, the thieves walked away with a minimal haul, leaving just enough clues to lead the police to their door.
"This was my escape; this was my way out," he says. "We thought that the money would give us the resources to do whatever we wanted with our life, and I just knew that I had to be a part of this, even though your mind should say the opposite."As a freshman art student at Transylvania University in 2003, Reinhard toured the school's special collections library with a group of students.
. Allen, a business major at the University of Kentucky at the time, says he was initially against the idea — but the allure of millions of dollars drew him in.The four plotters spent months researching rare books, auction houses and Swiss Bank accounts, according to court documents. Borsuk and Allen staked out the library, counting how many people entered and exited the building at different times of the day, and monitoring campus security. "I would turn every doorknob in the [library], see where it went, check fire escapes to see if alarms went off. All of those kinds of things," Borsuk tells CNBC on the episode of "Super Heists."
As Lipka and Borsuk lugged the heavy valuables down an emergency stairwell — each of the four Audubon folios alone reportedly— they encountered an assistant librarian, who chased them out of the building. The men dropped the multimillion-dollar folios, leaving them only with the other, less valuable books.
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