The Dry Briefcase by the River: How A Fake Warning Almost Burned a Archive
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The Dry Briefcase by the River: How A Fake Warning Almost Burned a Archive
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A battered leather briefcase floated downstream with a perfectly dry, two-page typed warning dated April 5, 2014 - and two days later engineers found the exact fractured steam pipe and adjacent electrical conduit it described. How did a dismissed facilities technician predict the location, mechanism, and timing of a near-ignition in Alderman Hall without access to internal reports, and why did his fabricated tactic risk the university's irreplaceable archive?
In this episode, we tell how the briefcase was found, who found it, and what the document claimed; we detail the building, the people who worked there, and the chain of events that led to an urgent inspection - and we ask whether Totten’s actions were a reckless stunt or a desperate act that saved a collection.
Person: Laura Becker
Person: Ray Totten
Person: Mark Callahan
Date: April 9, 2014 (briefcase found)
Location: Soline River
- The briefcase contained a two-page typed document dated April 5, 2014.
- Laura Becker retrieved the dry briefcase from a trotline on the morning of April 9, 2014.
- Engineers inspected Alderman Hall two days after the briefcase was found and confirmed the fractured steam pipe and adjacent electrical conduit.
- Ray Totten was terminated from Harwick University six weeks before April 2014 and had inspected the east sub-basement in autumn 2013 and January 2014.
- Totten owned at least seven manual typewriters and admitted fabricating the document and dropping the briefcase into the Soline River.
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