Gram by Gram: How They Stole $4M of Osmium Unnoticed
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Gram by Gram: How They Stole $4M of Osmium Unnoticed
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A campus mail route, a propped open lab door, and three hundred and forty grams of osmium-187 vanished in tiny increments worth roughly four million dollars - taken one to four grams at a time to avoid detection. How did a pattern of thirty-one small withdrawals, a false vendor name, and a handwritten log keep that loss hidden until a sixteen-year-old student noticed an open binder?
In this episode, we walk through the events as presented in the transcript: the discovery in Suite 14-C, the timeline of badge and visitor logs, and the inventory discrepancies that added up to a massive loss. What made the theft invisible to automated systems, and who was responsible?
Person: Karen Brooks
Person: Wayne Doyle
Person: Investigator: Carol Norris
Item: Osmium-187
Amount missing: 340 grams
- Karen Brooks was sixteen years old and started the campus mail job in September 2010 at eleven dollars an hour.
- Wayne Doyle badged into Suite 14-C thirty-one times between September 2010 and January 2011.
- The visitor log showed six entries for "Ralston Isotope Consulting," a company with no registered address or public records.
- Osmium-187 was trading between $12,000 and $15,000 per gram at the time.
- The handwritten log entries exceeded the Mettler analytical instrument receipts by between 0.3 and 0.8 grams per transaction.
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