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The Safe That Never Opened: How $412,000 Vanished Without a Trace · Heist Masterminds

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  Speaker 1: The safe that never opened. How $ 412, 000 vanished without a
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  Speaker 1: trace the green alarm panel never tripped. The safe showed
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  Speaker 1: no damage, and yet, $ 412, 000 in fair receipts was gone
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  Speaker 1: by morning. A reinforced gardel floor safe with a six-digit combination,
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  Speaker 1: emptied without a single sign of forced entry. Who walked in,
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  Speaker 1: turned the combination, and left $ 412, 000 vanished while the security
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  Speaker 1: system read green. In this episode, we follow the timeline
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  Speaker 1: and people connected to the Ransom County fare safe loss
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  Speaker 1: and the investigation that unfolded. From the last person to
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  Speaker 1: lock up to the consultant who had once watched the
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  Speaker 1: safe opened. What finally links the missing cash to an
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  Speaker 1: electrical visit and a bridge door contact. Person. Ted Mercer. Person.
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  Speaker 1: Vonda Harlan Person, Lori Adams Person, Heather Price Person, Lloyd
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  Speaker 1: Armstrong at 7.10 a.m. on August 18, 2014. An armored
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  Speaker 1: truck arrived and found the safe empty. The safe contained $ 412, 000
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  Speaker 1: in cash and checks the night before, August 17, 2014.
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  Speaker 1: The safe was a Gardall floor model, set into reinforced
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  Speaker 1: concrete with a six-digit combination. Lori Adams, a 41-year-old consultant,
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  Speaker 1: worked in the administration building for two weeks in 2011
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  Speaker 1: and watched Vonda Harlan enter the combination. On August 9th,
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  Speaker 1: the Hoppinition, on August 9th, 2014, Lloyd Armstrong, a 38-year-old
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  Speaker 1: licensed electrician, logged a 90-minute visit listed as a lighting
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  Speaker 1: check and wiring behind the door contact, showed a shorted
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  Speaker 1: copper bridge.