Heist Masterminds · Wednesday · 2 min
during setup chaos Jan. 15; returned post-Jan. 18
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during setup chaos Jan. 15; returned post-Jan. 18
An impossible quiet greets a hotel guest: seven ornate frames hung perfectly under their lights - but every canvas is blank linen, unprimed and matte as though the paintings simply ceased to exist overnight. Who had the right access, the right materials, and the patience to replace two million dollars’ worth of art without a single scuff or alarm?
In this episode, we walk through the sequence of events at the Holloway Grand during the Midwestern Insurance Underwriters Summit and trace the narrow window when replacement, not theft, occurred; what do the service logs, a borrowed brass elevator key, and an art-supply receipt reveal about the person who rehearsed this performance?
Person: Bernard Ashworth
Location: Holloway Grand Hotel, Calleston, Ohio
Date: January 15-19, 2017
Value: insured for over $2.1 million
Investigator: Jennifer Farrell, Hendricks Mutual
- Seven ornate frames on the fourteenth-floor penthouse were found with blank, unprimed linen canvases on January 19, 2017.
- Bernard Ashworth inspected the collection twice during summit week: the evening of January 16 and midday January 18, and noted the Brenner’s light issue on January 16.
- The Holloway Grand hosted approximately 900 attendees for the Midwestern Insurance Underwriters Summit during the third week of January 2017.
- Four active penthouse key-card credentials existed during the summit: Ashworth, GM Keith Odom, housekeeping head Connie Marsh, and AV contractor Donald Griffin.
- The service elevator log contained nine handwritten entries between January 15 and January 18, 2017, with two unauthorized entries labeled “AV equipment” signed only with the initial M.
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An impossible quiet greets a hotel guest: seven ornate frames hung perfectly under their lights - but every canvas is blank linen, unprimed and matte as though the paintings simply ceased to exist overnight. Who had the right access, the right materials, and the patience to replace two million dollars’ worth of art without a single scuff or alarm?
In this episode, we walk through the sequence of events at the Holloway Grand during the Midwestern Insurance Underwriters Summit and trace the narrow window when replacement, not theft, occurred; what do the service logs, a borrowed brass elevator key, and an art-supply receipt reveal about the person who rehearsed this performance?
Person: Bernard Ashworth
Location: Holloway Grand Hotel, Calleston, Ohio
Date: January 15-19, 2017
Value: insured for over $2.1 million
Investigator: Jennifer Farrell, Hendricks Mutual
- Seven ornate frames on the fourteenth-floor penthouse were found with blank, unprimed linen canvases on January 19, 2017.
- Bernard Ashworth inspected the collection twice during summit week: the evening of January 16 and midday January 18, and noted the Brenner’s light issue on January 16.
- The Holloway Grand hosted approximately 900 attendees for the Midwestern Insurance Underwriters Summit during the third week of January 2017.
- Four active penthouse key-card credentials existed during the summit: Ashworth, GM Keith Odom, housekeeping head Connie Marsh, and AV contractor Donald Griffin.
- The service elevator log contained nine handwritten entries between January 15 and January 18, 2017, with two unauthorized entries labeled “AV equipment” signed only with the initial M.
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