The Badge in the Drain: How $280K Vanished from Whitmore Hall
The Badge in the Drain: How $280K Vanished from Whitmore Hall
A county surveyor found a university ID sealed into concrete at a loading dock - five months after the area was last used - and that photograph set in motion an inquiry into how $280,000 in rare elements disappeared without alarms or audit exceptions. The access logs show 43 after-hours service entries and 41 brief Laboratory Four sessions tied to a single technician, but the paper sign-in book is spotless; who turned routine access into a silent extraction?
In this episode, we follow the records, the badges, and the signatures to…
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