The Empty Slot: How Thieves Swapped a Museum's Priceless Vessel
The Empty Slot: How Thieves Swapped a Museum's Priceless VesselA riverbank discovery revealed a hard-sided crate of pre-Columbian ceramics with one slot empty - the thirteen-piece ensemble had been valued at $114,000 and repacked into a crate that Harwick Institute signed for eleven months earlier. Who used access badges, unrevoked credentials, and condition photos to replace a museum object and send it forty miles away?In this episode, we follow the chain of events from the Millbrook Regional Museum exhibit to the crate found under a railroad trestle four miles south of Millbrook, Indiana…
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