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Tim Carpenter is a retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent and the former head of the FBI’s Art Crime Team. Over a 30-year career, he led some of the Bureau’s most significant cultural property investigations, recovering thousands of looted and stolen objects across the globe—including Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre, Norman Rockwell’s Lazybones, and the ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz. He received the FBI Director’s Award for excellence in counterterrorism and played a key role in modernizing the Bureau’s approach to art crime, expanding the Art Crime Team and strengthening its global reach.
Now the Managing Director of Argus Cultural Property Consultants, he advises museums, collectors, and insurers on risk, repatriation, and security. He regularly consults for film and television on art crime storylines and has appeared in multiple documentaries, including The Thief Collector. His work has been featured by The New York Times, CBS News, NPR, Vanity Fair, and The Washington Post Magazine.
The Graverobber is his debut book.
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