Have you seen these paintings?

"Life's work missing after thieves make off with valuable collection."

"My paintings may be gone but my inspitation remains."    

Another St. Valentine's Massacre

In the middle of the night, on Valentines day, 3 years ago, burglars made off with the life's work of renowned Haitian artist, Joseph Wilfrid Daleus.

Now, many broken hearts and three Valentine Days later, the search is still on.

Just like the 1990 Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum heist in Boston, when priceless works of Rembrandt, Degas and Vermeer evaporated into the welkin, which burglary continues enigmatic to this day, the location of the paintings of Daleus still remains a mistery.

Experts can, of course, recognize the works of those 17th century masters immediately, but for the general public to recognize the purloined paintings of Daleus, it may require a little extra knowledge.

Sometimes, in the memory of a childhood companion, who disappeared in the turmoil around Port-au-Prince during the reign of "Papa Doc", Daleys adds an extra digit to a foot or hand of one of his models, while he racalls that friend who had six on each foot.

Can you solve the mistery of where to find Daleus' works of art? - many of which were instpired by the voodoo for which Haiti is so well known.

Voodoo is nothing new to Daleus; it cured his diabetes. But inasmuch as voodoo can bring good or evil, it now seems to have worked both ways for Daleus.

Perhaps the Tontons Macoutes were behind the thievery, in order to make use of his art works in their dark satanic rituals somewhere deep in the Caribbean, who can tell?

If you know someone who has secret connections to the Tontons Macoutes, and you want to be like Charlie Chan in retrieving these treasures, log on, and let Daleus know how you can help him find them.

Voodoo will take care of the rest...