
The Shoe on the Intake: How 41 Pre‑Civil War Papers Vanished
The Shoe on the Intake: How 41 Pre‑Civil War Papers Vanished
Fear of a theft that knows how to be invisible: a single left dress shoe, size ten and a half, upright beneath the climate-control intake led to the discovery that 41 pre‑Civil War originals - appraised at $420,000 - had been removed without triggering alarms, motion logs, or signs of forced entry. Who used internal memos, forged requests, and an inside route to make the vault vanish from the archive's records?
In this episode, you hear how the missing documents were detected, who had access and motive, and the chain of forged memos…
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