The Brass Key in the Ditch That Broke a Cult's Silence
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The Brass Key in the Ditch That Broke a Cult's Silence
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A discarded brass key stamped with the number 7 and a laminated badge were found frozen in a ditch on February 4, 2019 - a tiny object that exposed a hidden group inside a stamping plant that left no written trace. How did a supervisor recruit nine coworkers into a closed world of “clarity,” secret meetings and identical bank withdrawals, and why did one young woman vanish from her own life schedule?
In this episode, we tell what happened at Consolidated Stamping and how the discovery of the key set investigators on a path that connected a missing-persons report, matching bank patterns, and a covert group known to outsiders as the Ironbound Circle. What did the key unlock, and how did it unravel the Circle’s careful secrecy?
Date: February 4, 2019
Person: Kelly Hoffman
Location: County Road 9 outside Dellford; Consolidated Stamping; Plum Street house
Event: Discovery of laminated employee badge with brass key; missing-persons report filed
Group: Ironbound Circle
- The key found was a small brass key with the number 7 stamped on its head, taped to a Consolidated Stamping employee badge.
- The key was discovered by snowplow operator Neil Coleman while clearing the drainage ditch on County Road 9.
- Kelly Hoffman was 23 years old in spring 2018 and earned $14.60 per hour as a hydraulic press operator on second shift.
- By June 2018 Kelly had contributed $80 from her first overtime check to what Alan Hicks called the “tithe of clarity.”
- Eight other Consolidated Stamping employees showed identical bank withdrawals of $150 on the same date for four consecutive months, matching Kelly’s pattern.
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