{"id":9771,"date":"2019-02-25T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=9771"},"modified":"2019-02-25T06:00:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T10:00:36","slug":"well-known-miller-lake-art-thief-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=9771","title":{"rendered":"Well-known Miller Lake art thief dies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MILLER LAKE: <\/strong>A well-known international art thief from Miller Lake has died, CTV News reported last month.<\/p>\n

John Mark Tillmann, 57, died two days before Christmas and was buried in a cemetery located at a church in Elderbank.<\/p>\n

Tillmann, who owned a Porsche and BMW, had filled his HRM residence with historic artifacts and art stolen over decades. He stole from universities, libraries, museums, antique dealers and private collections across Atlantic Canada.<\/p>\n

Among about 1,300 items seized by police were a spear; a gas mask; a glass lantern; a model canoe; paintings depicting centuries-old scenes; a brass telescope; and an 1819 watercolour from Nova Scotia\u2019s legislative library.<\/p>\n

Many of the institutions weren\u2019t even aware the items had been stolen.<\/p>\n

Tillmann was caught when RCMP pulled him over during a July 2012 traffic stop and found the Wolfe letter,<\/p>\n

Tillmann died two days before Christmas in Musquodoboit Harbour, according to a certificate of death obtained by CTV, which first reported his death.<\/p>\n

He was charged in 2009 with trying to kill his mother, and also served a two-year sentence for extorting, assaulting and threatening an ex-girlfriend. Media reports have also documented a history of racism and anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n

In 2013, Tillmann pleaded guilty to 40 charges and was sentenced nine years in prison. He was granted parole in 2016.<\/p>\n

At local coffee shops in Fall River, many were skeptical that he was indeed really dead in conversations about the news after the stories aired on CTV.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MILLER LAKE: A well-known international art thief from Miller Lake has died, CTV News reported last month. John Mark Tillmann, 57, died two days before Christmas and was buried in a cemetery located at a church in Elderbank. Tillmann, who owned a Porsche and BMW, had filled his HRM residence with historic artifacts and art […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[324,2,325,326],"class_list":["post-9771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-art-thief","tag-fall-river","tag-john-mark-tillmann","tag-miller-lake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}