LOS ANGELES — It’s taken far more than three clicks of the heels to bring the ruby slippers back home.

Thirteen years ago, the famed red-sequined heels from the “Wizard of Oz” were mysteriously stolen from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. With no fingerprints or security camera footage, police were left with few clues as to who broke through an entrance out back and smashed the plexiglass box holding the shoes. The only thing left behind: a lone red sequin.

Now, the hunt is over. The FBI announced Tuesday that the stolen slippers have been found, though no suspects were immediately revealed.

For many years, local, federal and private investigators pursued a variety of theories, eventually offering a $1 million reward for locating the shoes, one of four known pairs worn by Garland in the 1939 classic movie.

Dozens of leads came in after the reward was announced — but none of them seemed to bring investigators closer to solving the crime.

At the time of their theft Aug. 28, 2005, the shoes were on loan to the museum from a collector in North Hollywood, California.

“These shoes are the holy grail of all Hollywood memorabilia,” said Rhys Thomas, the author of “The Ruby Slippers of Oz,” who has tracked the case closely for years. “There isn’t anything else that does more to evoke the power of belief.”

In the “Wizard of Oz,” the shoes have the power to transport Dorothy back home to Kansas, if she clicks them three times and repeats the movie’s iconic phrase, “There’s no place like home.”

The slippers belonged to collector Michael Shaw, who bought them for $2,000 in 1970 from Kent Warner, a costumer who found them on an MGM lot at the time.

Eventually, an insurance company paid Shaw $800,000 after the theft and became the official owner of the shoes.

What happens next is unclear.

Shaw, who could not be reached for comment Monday, said in a 2015 interview with Newsweek that “there’s more to my life than a pair of pumps.”

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

Jennifer Medina © 2018 The New York Times