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A folding chair, a coffee cup, and $94,312 gone - opened with the right combination

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A folding chair, a coffee cup, and $94,312 gone - opened with the right combination

Fear of a meticulous, patient swap: a floor safe emptied without pry marks, replaced with seven perfectly cut advertisement sheets, and a single folding chair left as the only odd clue-how did someone open the safe with the right combination and leave almost no trace?

In this episode, we follow the sequence of discoveries from a paperboy at 6:14 a.m. to the deputy finding an empty floor safe, tracing the people with access, the delayed combination change, and the clues that uncovered a staged substitution-who had the combination and why were seven circulars used as fake bundles?

Person: Jeffrey Barrett
Date: January 4, 2014
Location: Millhaven Fairgrounds administration building
Amount: $94,312
Person: Frank Aldrich

- A fifteen-year-old paperboy, Jeffrey Barrett, discovered a lone folding chair by a side door at 6:14 a.m.
- A deputy found the floor safe open and empty at 6:51 a.m., with no scratches, pry marks, or bent frame.
- The safe’s combination had not been rotated since 2007, six years before the January 2014 incident.
- Seven advertising circulars were missing from a December 26 insert delivery; those circulars were cut into currency-sized rectangles and placed in four gray zippered bank deposit bags.
- The association’s combination was shared with exactly four people: treasurer Frank Aldrich, association president Debra Mott, the head of overnight security, and the operations manager.

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