Woman who bought stolen 2,000-year-old Roman bust from thrift shop speaks out: 'The backstory of this head is nuts'

Experts believe a U.S. soldier might have smuggled the bust back home after King Ludwig I's villa was bombed during World War II.

When Texas antiques dealer Laura Young goes thrifting, she keeps her head on a swivel — looking for household treasures for her and her clients. One day, as she was roaming around the aisles of a Goodwill store in Austin, she saw something sitting on a shelf that caught her eye.

Young told Villafranca she knew the bust was special from the moment she first saw it and immediately asked someone to help her pick it up. With the bust belted into her car, Young went home and started reaching out to experts. She sent pictures to academics and auction houses, trying to find out more about the stranger now sitting in her living room. A couple of days later, she heard back from Sotheby's Auction House, which identified the bust as previously being part of a German-owned state antiquities collection, Young said.

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