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The Crate at Dawn: How a Folded Chain Exposed a Museum Swap · Heist Masterminds

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  Speaker 1: The crate at dawn. How a folded chain exposed a museum.
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  Speaker 1: Swap danger hides in plain routines. A four-foot wooden crate
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  Speaker 1: appears at 6.40 a.m. on the third Tuesday of April 2013.
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  Speaker 1: A metal strap untouched and a chain left folded rather
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  Speaker 1: than cut. The single small detail that rattled an unfussy
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  Speaker 1: museum and a seasoned investigator. How did an artwork valued
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  Speaker 1: at $ 240, 000 leave a climate-controlled gallery, be replaced by a
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  Speaker 1: convincing forgery, and then be quietly returned without alarms ever tripping?
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  Speaker 1: In this episode, we follow the sequence of events at
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  Speaker 1: the Halverson Regional Museum and the arrival of a mysterious
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  Speaker 1: crate at the rear loading dock, tracing the people, timestamps,
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  Speaker 1: and physical clues that turned a routine intake into a
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  Speaker 1: criminal puzzle. What did the folded chain reveal about who
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  Speaker 1: handled the crate, and why the swap went unnoticed? Date,
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  Speaker 1: April 15th, 2013. Location, Halverson Regional Museum, Fenville, Object. Morning
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  Speaker 1: on the Ellensaw, oil on canvas, 31x20, 2 inches. Value, $ 240, 000.
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  Speaker 1: Loan partner, Wyndham Fine Arts Conservancy. Portsmouth, the crate, measured
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  Speaker 1: roughly four feet wide, three feet tall, and 18 inches
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  Speaker 1: deep and bore stenciled letters referencing the Halverson Traveling Collection.
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  Speaker 1: The metal strap around the crate was undisturbed when discovered
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  Speaker 1: at 6.40 a.m. The painting, Morning on the Allensaw, was
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  Speaker 1: donated in 1988, and appraised at $ 240, 000 by 2013. Curator
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  Speaker 1: Gerald Moss had worked at the Halverson for 19 years
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  Speaker 1: and signed the intake form without closely examining the returned canvas.
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  Speaker 1: Investigator Darlene Anderson had 14 years in the Fenville Property
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  Speaker 1: Crimes Unit and noted the chain was recoiled neatly beside
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  Speaker 1: the crate, not cut.