The Borrowed Cone: How a Traffic Cone Unmasked a Payroll Heist
The Borrowed Cone: How a Traffic Cone Unmasked a Payroll Heist
Danger lurks in ordinary routines: a single orange cone, a twelve-minute payroll run and $41,200 gone in under four minutes-yet the cone was traced back to a locked municipal yard, taken without breaking the padlock. Who had a key and why would they borrow a traffic cone to stage a robbery?
In this episode, we walk through the sequence of events from the paperboy’s discovery to investigators tracing the cone and the implications that a missing municipal cone had for a seemingly secure town. What did that single borrowed cone…
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