Paris Picasso/Matisse Thief Says He Threw Paintings In The Trash

“A man suspected of hiding precious artwork stolen from the Paris Museum of Modern Art last year claims that in a panic, he threw the paintings” – Picasso, Braque, Modigliani, Matisse and Leger, together worth about $134 million – “in a garbage bin on a Paris street and [that they may have been] destroyed with the rest of that day’s trash.”