Missing painting in NYC linked to man who once stole from KU art library

The co-owner of a $1 million painting that went missing in New York under mysterious circumstances once stole books from an art library at the University of Kansas.

Tom Doyle is a central figure in the case of a Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot painting that a handler supposedly misplaced during a night of hard drinking. The handler, James Carl Haggerty, became a tabloid punchline when his misadventure with “Portrait of a Girl” was described in a recent lawsuit. But suspicion has turned to Doyle, Haggerty’s friend, convicted felon and a co-owner of the painting.