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Forty-Two Seconds: How They Silenced Cameras and Stole $930K

Forty-Two Seconds: How They Silenced Cameras and Stole $930K

Fear of a perfectly timed blind spot - forty-two seconds - drives this story: an armored transfer of forty-eight diamonds worth $930,000 went missing while the parking-structure surveillance feed was silently disconnected for exactly forty-two seconds, and a burgundy velvet pouch with eleven stones turned up days later in snow. Who read the fine print and turned a routine compression cycle into the perfect theft?

In this episode, we follow the sequence of events, the people and reports connected to the transfer, and the detail that…

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