The Sixty-Two Dollar Scale That Stole Seventy Ounces of Gold
The Sixty-Two Dollar Scale That Stole Seventy Ounces of Gold
A cheap postal scale - a $62 retail unit welded to a cart, chained to a drain pipe, battery compartment empty - sat in a camera blind spot and quietly moved an estimated 68-74 troy ounces of gold over 14 months; who engineered such a precise, low-key theft and why did the thieves always take exactly enough? What started with a utility lineman's 7:42 a.m. photo became a prosecution exhibit and a trail of tiny, consistent clues that point to planning rather than accident.
In this episode, we follow the discovery and the paperwork…
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