An FBI investigation into two retired teachers whose New Mexico home owned a stolen $100 million De Kooning painting found they had other valuable works in their home and enjoyed lavish trips around the world.

It has long been speculated that the late Rita and Jerry Alter were the duo who stole De Kooning’s “Woman-Ocher” from the University of Arizona Museum of Art in 1985.

The theft saw a woman accost a security guard while her male accomplice cut out the painting and ran away with it, but the thieves were never identified.

It was not until 2017 that police were alerted to the painting’s location by a New Mexico museum curator, who purchased the painting for $2,000 from Rita’s estate, who died that year after her husband’s death in 2012.

A follow-up investigation has since revealed that the former New York teachers owned other artworks, including two paintings that the FBI said were selling for six figures each, the Arizona Republic reported.

An FBI investigation into Rita and Jerry Alter (above), believed to have stolen a $100 million painting by De Kooning in 1985, found that despite modest salaries, the couple worked as local schoolteachers in Silver City, New Mexico, lived in luxury

The “Woman-Ocher” was stolen from the University of Arizona Museum of Art by two thieves. The painting hung in the Alter’s home in New Mexico for decades

The couple has been known to travel all over the world, visiting India, Nepal, China and Japan. Pictured: Jerry poses for a photo during one of the couple’s trips

Colleagues of Rita (right), a speech therapist at GW Stout Elementary School, wondered how she could afford to travel extensively around the world while making $16,171 a year

According to the FBI, Alter’s nephew told them that Rita had more than $1 million in bonds before her death, even though her annual salary as a speech therapist in Silver City, New Mexico, was just $16,171.

Christy Miller, a special education teacher who shared an office with Rita at GW Stout Elementary School in Silver City, told Republic that New Yorkers lived luxuriously in their new home in the Southwest, where they moved to in 1977.

Their one-story ranch featured a swimming pool, busts of William Shakespeare and Ludwig van Beethoven, and a blue tile-covered pyramid.

Neighbors noted that the couple would be visiting Hong Kong, Chile, Tasmania, Nepal, India, Japan and the Caribbean.

The FBI found that the alters visited about 145 countries in total.

Neighbors said the couple’s apparent wealth kept them at a distance, but when invited into the house they often spotted the stolen painting and said it was ugly as Rita and Jerry laughed.

The couple has reportedly traced their fortunes to various inheritances they received.

Although Jerry suffered a massive heart attack in 2002, the two continued to travel, most recently together on the Caribbean islands of Grenada, St. Vincent and Dominica.

Then, in 2012, at the age of 81, Jerry suffered a stroke and died.

After Rita’s death, her nephew Ron Roseman, the executor of her estate, donated the pair of expensive paintings and other sculptures to the Silver City Town and Country Garden Club charity thrift store.

The donations included originals by Joseph Henry Sharp and Victor Higgins, each of whose paintings number six.

The nonprofit was allowed to sell the artworks for $122,692, more than three times what the charity typically makes in a year.

The FBI released few details about the new items found in the late couple’s estate, noting that the case over the stolen “Woman-Ocher” was closed.

Tim Carpenter, a senior adviser to the FBI’s Art Crime Team, told Republic only the old would know how they got their hands on the $100 million painting.

“Unfortunately they took that with them to the grave,” he said.

The FBI did not immediately respond to ‘s request for comment.

Pictured: Jerry and Rita’s passports detailing a wealth of travel in the mid-1980s

One of her trips included visiting Japan’s Himeji Castle in the summer of 1985

After her death, the couple’s nephew donated her belongings to a local charity, which eventually sold the artworks for more than $122,000

The stolen “Woman Ocher” was eventually returned to the University of Arizona Museum of Art

According to KOB 4, Jerry and Rita kept a daily planner with meticulous notes about where they went, what they ate and what medications they were on. The couple mysteriously left Thanksgiving blank in 1985, the same day the painting was removed from the museum.

A newly emerged family photo also shows that Jerry and Rita, who have two children, were in Tucson a day before the robbery.

The day after Thanksgiving in 1985, a security guard at the University of Arizona Museum of Art reportedly opened the front doors to let an employee in when a man and woman came in behind the employee.

Since the museum was supposed to open that day, the guard didn’t tell her to leave. The man went up the stairs to the second floor of the museum while the woman stayed and chatted with the security guard.

About 15 minutes after entering the museum, the man and woman hurriedly left. Sensing that something was wrong, the guard went to the second floor and found that de Kooning’s Ocher Woman painting had been cut out of the frame.

The FBI has not commented on whether they believe the couple stole the painting, saying only that the case is considered closed

The painting will be on display again in a new exhibition at the museum in May 2023

When he tried to give chase, the man and woman sped away in a red sports car. The museum had no surveillance cameras at the time and the police found no fingerprints.

Authorities released a sketch of the pair, which bears a striking resemblance to Jerry and Rita, and described what they had been wearing, but no arrests were ever made.

The theft ran cold until August 2017 when David Van Auker accidentally stumbled upon the painting “hidden” behind the master bedroom of Jerry and Rita’s ranch-style New Mexico home.

He told several news outlets that he went to the couple’s home to see what they left behind after hearing about a property sale.

Van Auker is a co-owner of the Manzanita Ridge furniture and antiques store in Silver City.

Van Auker said that walking through the house he found a “great, cool mid-century painting” and bought it from Roseman for $2,000.

Van Auker and Roseman, who was appointed executor, were unaware of the painting’s history.

The painting will be exhibited again at the University of Arizona Museum of Art in May 2023 in a new exhibit entitled Restored: The Return of the Woman in Ocher.

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Video of students at a boys’ college at Complutense University in Madrid shouting at Putas Ninfmanas in a women’s hostel has sparked a political uproar. Spanish Prime Minister: We reject these male-dominated behaviors

For her it must have been a nice student, an initiation rite repeated almost identically every year to baptize the young students at Santa Monica Women’s College in Madrid, whose only fault is standing right outside the windows of Elas College ahuja. Both dormitories are part of the very prestigious Complutense University of Madrid, but the video of the performance, orchestrated by the boys of the boys’ college from the windows of their rooms at the address of the unfortunate neighbors, certainly does no credit to such an old and illustrious institution . Putas, sois unas putas ninfmanas, can be heard howling from a lighted window in the dark of night. The meaning of his words is clear enough not to require translation. But then, since it wasn’t clear enough, he moved on. Os prometo que vais a follar todas, he cried, adding to the sexist insult the threat of walking the talk. And since cowardice always needs accomplices, at the cry of Vamos he cried Ahja! his friends, who together pulled up the shutters of their rooms and answered with their beautiful cries. And so, in a single instant, the whole building lit up and in every window appeared the black silhouettes of four boys singing their macho choirs and clapping their hands to the rhythm of a stadium.

Needless to say, the video sparked a wave of outrage across the country. Prime Minister Pedro Snchez himself spoke on the subject: I appeal to all parties and the media to provide a unified, broad and common response to reject these inexplicable, unjustifiable sexist behaviors, he said. We cannot tolerate this hateful behavior that attacks women. It is particularly painful to see that the protagonists are young, he added on Twitter. Opposition leader Alberto Feijoo repeated what happened illegally. The university residence apologized, pronounced its conviction and explained in a press release that the house rules provide for exmatriculation in serious cases like this one. The student who initiated the verbal attack was expelled from the school. There is no news from the others. Most importantly, multiple outlets are pointing out that a very similar video was posted on Tik Tok last year without anyone – within the college – raising an eyebrow at the time. A video from a few years ago also circulated on Twitter, showing re-enrolled students at Elas Ahuja College performing the Hitler salute with their right arm raised and shouting Sieg Heil.

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China has commissioned the world’s largest flow battery. It is a 100MW, 400MWh vanadium flow battery that offers relatively cheap energy storage without using lithium.

After several years of development by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Asian giant has connected the world’s first advanced 100MW compressed air energy storage system to the grid, which is ready for commercial operation in the city of Zhangjiakou.

The new Zhangjiakou facility will abandon fossil fuels and leverage advances in supercritical heat storage, supercritical heat exchange, high-load compression and expansion technologies to increase system efficiency.

According to the China Energy Storage Alliance, the new facility can store and release up to 400 MWh, with a system design ratio of 70.4%.

This number is huge; Current compressed air systems are only 40-50% efficient and even the two largest Hydrostor CAES systems are only around 60% efficient.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences claims that the Zhangjiakou plant can supply the local grid with more than 132 GWh of electricity per year.

It will save about 42,000 tons of coal burned in power plants and reduce annual carbon dioxide emissions by about 109,000 tons.

The Academy notes that the low cost, long life, safety and efficiency of this design make it “one of the most promising technologies for large-scale energy storage.”