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Eight-Minute Window: How a Coffee Cup Hid $350,000

Eight-Minute Window: How a Coffee Cup Hid $350,000

Danger hides in routine: a warm medium Styrofoam coffee cup sat upright on a concrete ledge, the vault dial rested neutral, the alarm never sounded-and $411,000 vanished with $350,000 still missing. How did a six-minute morning habit and a gas-station cup become the linchpins of a crime that left no pry marks, no scratched locks, and a perfectly closed door?

In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the discovery to the breakthrough, following the objects and timings that led a young financial crimes officer to an unlikely…

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