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The Glove, the Badge, and the Vault That Vanished Midnight Maps

The Glove, the Badge, and the Vault That Vanished Midnight Maps

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The Glove, the Badge, and the Vault That Vanished Midnight Maps

An insured cache appraised at approximately $1.2 million disappeared without setting off alarms, while a single white cotton glove and a laminated badge reading DARRYL MOTT were found against a blank exterior wall-how did the thief get in and out with no forced entry? What flaw in the archive's systems made a perfect theft possible?

In this episode, we walk through the timeline of April 14, 2009, from the Sentinel alarm coming back online at 4:22 a.m. to the archivist discovering the missing material at 8:45 a.m., and trace the institutional and technical details that created the opportunity for the theft. Could a scheduled maintenance window and a documented security vulnerability explain the missing maps and plates?

Person: Stuart Ogle
Date: April 14, 2009
Location: Lindhurst Regional Archive, Caldwell Street, Pelham Falls
Event: One hundred fifty-eight years of surveyed landscape removed; forty-seven original survey maps and eleven hand-colored lithographic plates taken
Appraisal: approximately $1.2 million

- Sentinel alarm system logged as back online at 4:22 a.m, on April 14, 2009.
- Archivist opened the storage room and discovered the loss at 8:45 a.m. the same morning.
- Forty-seven survey maps dated 1841-1863 and eleven lithographic plates by August Nelle were taken.
- Maintenance window began at 11:47 p.m. on April 13 with ClearPath Environmental crew working on the climate system.
- Memo from 2006 noted a shared network node connecting the HVAC climate system to the Sentinel security platform, causing motion and humidity sensors to go dark if climate controls went offline.

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