Less than a week after a Hanover newspaper received a ransom letter from the purported thief of the golden emblem of a beloved food company, the self-styled "Cookie Monster" seems to have had a change of heart. The Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung received a second letter from Germany's most-wanted cookie thief stating that the golden biscuit would be returned. 
 
 "Because Werni loves the biscuit as much as I do and now always cries and misses the biscuit so badly, I'm giving it back to him!!!" it reads, ostensibly in reference to Werner Michael Bahlsen, the head of Bahlsen, which makes the globally successful Liebnitz brand of cookies. 
 
 The initial letter demanded, among other things, that the company provide the treats to all the rooms at a local children's hospital if it ever wanted to see the golden cookie again. Bahlsen CEO Werner Michael Bahlsen offered to make a donation of 52,000 packs of biscuits to different organizations upon the emblem's safe return, but he also said that the company would not meet the thief's demands and that it "refused to be blackmailed." 
 
 The biscuit was stolen from outside Bahlsen's headquarters in Hanover. Both letters have been accompanied by photos of a person in a Cookie Monster costume sticking the golden biscuit in its mouth. 
 
 The perpetrator did not state in the letter when the cookie might be safely returned. ||||| Police in Germany say someone dressed as the Cookie Monster has sent a second note regarding a stolen cookie sculpture _ this time saying he wants to return it. 
 
 But officials aren't sure the person in the photo actually stole the 20-kilogram (44 pound), century-old sculpture. 
 
 The gilded bronze item was part of a statue outside German cookie baker Bahlsen's Hannover office, and it was reported stolen last month. 
 
 The Hannover police's statement says a local newspaper on Monday received a picture of someone dressed like the Sesame Street character holding what appears to be the stolen cookie. 
 
 The enclosed note is written in cut-out letters. 
 
 An earlier letter demanded that cookies be delivered to children at a city hospital, but the new note made no demands.
– A century-old, 44-pound cookie sculpture was stolen last month from outside a famous German bakery, and police have now received two "ransom" notes. Both included pictures of a person dressed as Cookie Monster putting the golden cookie in his or her mouth, Spiegel reports; the AP adds that the most recent note was written using cut-out letters. The first letter demanded that the company deliver cookies to hospitalized children, but the most recent letter indicates a change of heart. "Because Werni loves the biscuit as much as I do and now always cries and misses the biscuit so badly, I'm giving it back to him!!!" it reads, likely making a reference to baker owner Werner Michael Bahlsen. Bahlsen had offered to donate 52,000 packages of cookies to various organizations upon the statue's safe return, but he added that the company won't be blackmailed.