Fourteen Vials in the River: How Osmium Walked Out of Campus
Fourteen Vials in the River: How Osmium Walked Out of Campus
Cold, precise, and worth roughly $12,000 per gram, a set of 14 sealed lab vials of osmium-187 washed up eleven miles downstream from a university-no paperwork, no chain of custody, and an inventory system that showed no alarm. Who turned a climate-controlled repository into an open door, and why did the system fail to notice a multi-thousand-dollar disappearance?
In this episode, we follow the chain of calls, camera footage, and inventory logs that tied a fisherwoman’s discovery on March 4, 2019, to campus swipe records, a…
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