Wig Heist! (Crimes of Old New York)
Mar 19, 2025•37 min•Season 4Ep. 14
Episode description
One Monday morning in 1958, Nina Lawson, Mistress of Wigs at the Metropolitan Opera, came into work to discover that someone had stolen thirty thousand dollars' worth of wigs from the Met. The theft made national headlines, and the FBI joined the hunt for the culprits.
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