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

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  Speaker 1: 41 missing bars. How a trot line toppled a refinery's
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  Speaker 1: secret fear and curiosity collide at the riverbank. A trot
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  Speaker 1: line pulls up a military canvas bag containing 41 gold
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  Speaker 1: bars marked PRT. 7. And official refinery records show that
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  Speaker 1: same run produced only 2 troy ounces. How did roughly
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  Speaker 1: 19 pounds of gold vanish from a secured plant? and
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  Speaker 1: reappear wrapped in industrial rubber on a gravel bar. In
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  Speaker 1: this episode, you'll hear the discovery that jolted investigators, the
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  Speaker 1: plant procedures that created an unrecorded 12-hour window, and the
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  Speaker 1: human connections that bridged industry, knowledge to opportunity, raising the
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  Speaker 1: question everyone wanted, answered. Who used that gap to move
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  Speaker 1: 41 bars? Person Beverly Fitzgerald. Location. Anselm River gravel bar
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  Speaker 1: four miles south of Caulfield date. October 9th, 2003 case.
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  Speaker 1: Lot code PRT7 corresponds to September 22nd, 2003. Secondary slag
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  Speaker 1: run person. Kenneth Rafferty found. 41 gold bars wrapped in
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  Speaker 1: black industrial rubber inside a military canvas bag. Weight, roughly
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  Speaker 1: 19 pounds of gold. valued at $ 110, 000 to $ 120, 000 at
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  Speaker 1: October 2003, Price's official yield for lot PRT, 7, September 22, 2003.
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  Speaker 1: Approximately two troy ounces distance, bag located about six miles
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  Speaker 1: downstream from Portman Refining Personnel. Kenneth Rafferty was Seoul's senior
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  Speaker 1: processing technician responsible for secondary line and assay logs for
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  Speaker 1: six years