They Dug Out of a Vault: How Someone Walked Away With $1M copertina

They Dug Out of a Vault: How Someone Walked Away With $1M

They Dug Out of a Vault: How Someone Walked Away With $1M

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They Dug Out of a Vault: How Someone Walked Away With $1M

Fear of a perfect, patient crime - a vault emptied with no forced door, no tripped alarm, and drill marks on the wrong side of the wall - drove investigators into a hidden tunnel beneath downtown. A steel safe-deposit box was found dry and open on orange construction mesh three-quarters of a mile from the nearest road; who planned every step well enough to walk out of a vault and seal the route behind them?

In this episode, we follow the sequence of discoveries from a culvert on the Vicki Slater Trail to a storm-drain tunnel and a rented storage unit, outlining the evidence that pointed investigators toward a subterranean exit and the unanswered logistical puzzle at its center: how did they get inside to begin with?

Person: Sharon Pruett
Date: July 5, 2011
Location: Vicki Slater Trail; Marsten Vault and Trust basement
Case: Vault breach of 412 safe-deposit boxes
Investigator: Emily Meyer

- A steel safe-deposit box was found open and empty on a folded square of orange construction mesh three-quarters of a mile from the nearest road.
- The Marsten Vault and Trust basement held 412 safe-deposit boxes; 61 boxes were accessed during the breach and 38 were emptied.
- The conservatively estimated value of missing contents ranged between $800,000 and $1,000,000.
- Drill marks on the utility corridor wall ran from the vault side outward, indicating the opening was made from inside the building infrastructure.
- A tunnel approximately 40 feet long, shored with salvaged lumber, connected the vault utility corridor to a storm drain shown only on a 1963 paper survey.

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