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Wax Key

Office of a cash-in-transit firm near Heathrow in 1983, with a key board on the wall.

London, Saturday, November 26, 1983, 9 am. On the industrial estate next to Heathrow airport, warehouse 12 of the Carrow cash-in-transit company still smells of petrol.

Suspects

• Nigel FairweatherShift supervisor of the guards, keeper of the main door key, 54
• Dennis LoftusMorning shift guard, 31
• Maureen BellamyAdministrative manager of the warehouse, in charge of the manifest and the payroll, 46

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Zone Four

Exhibition hall of a modern gallery in Rotterdam, 2012, with seven empty hooks on the wall and police tape.

Rotterdam, Tuesday, October 16, 2012, 8 am. A large exhibition gallery beside a museum park is celebrating its 20th anniversary with the show “Avant-Gardes”. At 3:02 am the motion sensor in the west wing went off.

Suspects

• Femke OosterhuisControl room operator at the security firm, 34
• Jurgen BakelaarAssistant curator in charge of the exhibition, 58
• Mattias VeldkampContract installer with the art haulage company that hung the exhibition, 31

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Key in the Water

Baroque hall of an English palace in 2019, the floor flooded and an empty pedestal in the water.

Oxfordshire, Saturday, September 14, 2019, 8 am. At Ashmoor Palace, a Baroque house open to visitors, director Cressida Hollins steps into a hall flooded to the ankles.

Suspects

• Royce TanfieldPlumber hired by the gallery, who installed the artwork, 41 years old
• Agatha PurslowHead of the palace night security, 58 years old
• Benedict OrmsbyRepresentative of the artist's gallery, who set up the exhibition, 49 years old

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Rope in the Skylight

Cargo warehouse near an airport in 2017, with empty trunks and a cut rope hanging from a skylight.

Feltham, Monday, 30 January 2017, 9 am. In a customs cargo warehouse near Heathrow, the night guard found two round holes in the skylight at 6:15 am and a cut rope hanging from the ceiling.

Suspects

• Royston HargreaveNight guard of the warehouse, 61 years old
• Callum BrierleyDay-shift supervisor of the warehouse, former industrial climber, 39 years old
• Graziella ToscaniRepresentative of a Turin bookseller, who escorted the trunks to London, 54 years old

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Checkpoint on the Corner

Meeting room of an advertising agency in São Paulo, 2001, at night, a cordless phone on the table.

São Paulo, Tuesday, December 11, 2001, 11 pm. At 6:40 pm, two blocks from his advertising agency in Higienópolis, ad man Teodoro Bastos was stopped at a Federal Police checkpoint.

Suspects

• Gerson TavaresTeodoro Bastos's driver, 46
• Leonor SiqueiraTeodoro Bastos's executive secretary, 41
• Nestor GuimarãesThe agency's administrative manager, 53

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