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THE WOMAN IN THE ELEVATOR · The Timekeepers Dilemma

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  [SPEAKER_00]: The timekeepers dilemma, true crime tales, workplace crime, passion, and running out of time.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: At 702 every morning, Rachel Morgan entered the same office building.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: At 704, she wrote the elevator to the ninth floor.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: At 706, she bought coffee.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: At 708, she sat at her desk.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Until one Monday morning, Rachel never arrived at her desk.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Her badge was used to enter the building.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Her car was parked outside.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Her phone was found inside her purse, but Rachel herself was nowhere to be found.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Security initially believed she had left the building.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Then they reviewed the elevator footage and saw something that changed the entire in-vests.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Rachel worked as a project manager,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: for a construction company.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She was ambitious, driven, and fiercely protective of her career.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She had spent years working toward a major promotion.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Her biggest competitor was Daniel Price.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Daniel was charismatic, confident, and extremely popular with upper management.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Rachel didn't trust him, she never accused him of anything.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There's something about him.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: My left.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You say that about everyone.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: No, Rachel reply.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Just people who make me nervous.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Rachel had recently discovered that someone was accessing confidential project documents.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The files contained information about contracts worth millions.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Rachel became convinced someone inside the company
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  [SPEAKER_00]: she started investigating.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Again, passion became obsession.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Rachel worked late.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She checked access logs.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She studied emails.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She compared timestamps.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And eventually she found something.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A series of documents had been downloaded at exactly 6.48am every time.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Always before the office officially opened.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And every download came from a computer
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  [SPEAKER_00]: assigned to Daniel.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Rachel confronted him.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Daniel denied everything.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You've got the wrong person.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Rachel stared at him.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Then proved it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He smiled.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't have to.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Two weeks later Rachel told Maya that she had discovered something else.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I know who's doing it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Who?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Rachel
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When, tomorrow, those words would haunt my a later tomorrow, Rachel never got there.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The next morning, Rachel entered the building.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: At 704, she entered the elevator.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Daniel was already inside, security footage showed Rachel smiling when she saw him.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The door is closed.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Seven minutes later, the elevator opened.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Daniel walked out alone.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Daniel told investigators he had gotten off on the sixth floor.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He claimed Rachel remained inside the elevator, but the elevator records contradicted him.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The elevator had never stopped on the sixth floor.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It went directly to the night.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Daniel's story collapsed, but there was still no Rachel.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Police searched the building.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Then investigators discovered that Rachel's access badge had been used at 7-11 a.m.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The strange thing, Rachel's badge was inside her purse.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The purse was found in her office.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Someone else had used it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Someone who knew exactly where she kept it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The turning point investigators eventually discovered that Daniel had been stealing confidential information.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: but the murder investigation revealed something unexpected.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Daniel wasn't working alone.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Another employee had been helping him.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That employee was Rachel's supervisor.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The two had been selling information to a competitor.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Rachel had accidentally uncovered them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The elevator encounter had been staged.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Daniel had convinced Rachel that he wanted to explain everything.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He told her he could prove his innocence, Rachel believed him, that trust caused her everything.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Rachel's body was eventually discovered outside the city, the investigation lasted months.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Daniel and his accomplice were arrested, the company collapsed under the scandal.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But Rachel's story became something larger than a workplace crime.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: can't create dangerous opportunities.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Rachel had a routine, 702, 704, 706, 708.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She trusted those minutes.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She trusted the people she saw every morning.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And that was exactly what made her predictable.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Her killer didn't need to know everything about her.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He only needed to know her schedule.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The most haunting detail.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The last confirmed image of Rachel alive showed her entering the elevator.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She was smiling, she wasn't afraid, she believed she was walking into a conversation, not in ambush, not the final seven minutes of her life, a conversation, and that's what makes the case so disturbing, sometimes danger doesn't look like danger, sometimes it
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  [SPEAKER_00]: a friend, someone holding the elevator door open for you, the clock doesn't always warn you, sometimes it simply keeps moving.