Three keys, all accounted for - the lock never touched - ninety-one grams gone

Bank Robbery Stories · Jul 23, 2026 · 19m

Three keys, all accounted for - the lock never touched - ninety-one grams gone

Ninety-one grams of purified rare-earth elements vanished from a sealed cabinet with three accounted-for keys and no signs of forced entry - a loss valued at roughly $230,000 in replacement cost and containing isotopic materials years in the making. Who moved the fourteen polycarbonate tubes out of their pristine foam trays and through a building that left no electronic trace?

In this episode, we follow the discovery and early investigation into the missing reference standards from a university lab, the access logs…