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The sealed mason jar that marked box 1114 bought them time

The sealed mason jar that marked box 1114 bought them time

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A sealed mason jar with a live cricket and the number 1114 is left on a bank vault floor - can investigators trace a yearlong tunnel plot in time?

The sealed mason jar that marked box 1114 bought them time

In this episode, we follow the records and people who rebuilt a complex bank theft from the first strange clue to the network behind it. What decisions, movements, and small details let a crew drill through a vault wall and vanish with bearer bonds?

Date: July 4, 2011
Location: Dellard, Ohio
Person: Susan Underwood
Person: Eugene Myers
Case: Calloway Savings and Trust vault breach

- A road-grader operator at 6:14 a.m. found a four-by-two-foot rectangle sinking in newly laid asphalt above a bank vault.
- A sealed mason jar on the vault floor contained one live cricket and a slip reading "1114," pointing to a specific safe-deposit box.
- The east wall of the vault had seventy-four drilled boxes; three other walls were untouched and 312 boxes were housed in the vault.
- A shell company registered in Columbus under the name Karen Holst leased a vacant unit near the bank and held a subcontractor role in the repaving project.
- Badge-access logs show an assistant facilities manager swiped into the basement twenty-two times in sixty days, far above the predecessor’s baseline.

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