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The One Cone That Unraveled a $62,400 Payroll Heist

The One Cone That Unraveled a $62,400 Payroll Heist

A single traffic cone with a stamped inventory number cracked open a $62,400 payroll robbery and linked a staged road crew to a missing county asset. That cone was photographed by a birdwatcher before deputies arrived - how did one tiny object expose a two-year plan and a crime across three counties?

In this episode, we follow the morning of February 11, 2009, from the discovery at an intersection to the investigative lead that tied the cone to county storage, asking how a logged-as-missing cone became the linchpin in a payroll theft that…

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