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Forty-One Missing Bars: How a Trotline Toppled a Refinery's Secret

Forty-One Missing Bars: How a Trotline Toppled a Refinery's Secret

Fear and curiosity collide at the riverbank: a trotline pulls up a military canvas bag containing forty-one gold bars-marked PRT-7-and official refinery records show that same run produced only two troy ounces. How did roughly nineteen pounds of gold vanish from a secured plant and reappear wrapped in industrial rubber on a gravel bar?

In this episode, you’ll hear the discovery that jolted investigators, the plant procedures that created an unrecorded twelve-hour window, and the human connections that bridged industry…

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