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A gravel-strewn road yielded a sealed archival shipping tube and, buried under weeks of dirt, the vanished forty-eight-inch Marcus Vail oil insured for $420,000 - yet the gallery wall still held a technically convincing copy. How did a forgery, an alarm code hidden in a crossword, and a seven-minute climate-log blackout all line up to make the original disappear?

In this episode, we follow the timeline from the moment a municipal grader unearthed the tube through the discovery that a near-perfect copy hung in plain sight; we trace the clues in a podcast, a newsletter photo, and a climate-control log to ask when the Vail actually left the gallery.

Person: Harvey Lewis
Person: Philip Norris
Person: Lauren Gray
Person: Teresa Padgett
Event: seven-minute gap in climate-control log from 11:43 to 11:50 PM on third Saturday of August

- Tube: sealed archival shipping tube found at 6:41 AM on a Tuesday in September 2019
- Painting: Marcus Vail oil on linen, roughly 48 inches wide, insured at $420,000
- Gallery tenure: Philip Norris had run the Arroyo Street gallery for 18 years
- Employee timeline: Lauren Gray had been gallery assistant for 14 months and produced copies in prior 3 years
- Discrepancy: 2-millimeter horizon-line drift revealed by transparency overlay on a newsletter photograph

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