 In an act of good faith the ransomer returned one of the panel's two parts (a grisaille painting of St John the Baptist).On 25 November 1934 the self-proclaimed thief, Arsène Goedertier, revealed on his deathbed to his lawyer that he was the only one who knew where the masterpiece was hidden, and that he would take the secret to his grave.Goedertier told his lawyer, Georges de Vos, that "I alone know where the Mystic Lamb is.