Fifteen months into the investigation, 22-year-old Edwin Rist, an American studying the flute at London’s Royal Academy of Music, was arrested at his apartment and charged with …

Jul 30, 2011 · Edwin Rist, 22, of High Street, Willesden Green, London, burgled the Natural History Museum, Tring in 2009. In April Rist, a US citizen, was given a 12-month jail sentence, …

Dec 1, 2024 · American flutist Edwin Rist, dubbed The Feather Thief, was so obsessed with exotic birds that he even committed a crime for them.

The police announced on 12 November 2010 that a 22-year-old US citizen, Edwin Rist, had been arrested, in the Tring area, in connection with the theft and the majority of bird skins had been …

Edwin Rist (1988-) was convicted of wildlife smuggling, stealing an estimated million dollars worth of antique bird skins from the Natural History Museum at Tring on November 24, 2010..

May 18, 2018 · At the heart of your book is a young American musician named Edwin Rist. Give us a brief biography and explain how he became involved in the world of salmon fly-tying. …

Dec 13, 2024 · In 2009, a college kid named Edwin Rist broke into the British Natural History museum at Tring and stole millions of dollars worth of antique bird feathers. He needed fuel for …

Apr 24, 2018 · That's the crux of Kirk Wallace Johnson's true story about Edwin Rist, a young prodigy in both the orchestral and fly-tying communities whose greed got the best of him. In …

The birds Edwin Rist stole were valuable and collected in the mid-1800s by one of the greatest scientific explorers of his time: a man named Alfred Russel Wallace. (6 minutes)

Apr 8, 2011 · US citizen Edwin Rist, 22, who admitted burglary and money-laundering at a previous hearing, was described as a James Bond fantasist by his solicitor.