Daily Casefile · Forensic
The Sverdal Vault Discrepancy
≈ 4 min
The Sverdal Seed Bank's vault technician, Dag Olsen, reported that tray SK-7 — holding irreplaceable heritage barley specimens — had been substituted with a look-alike tray of inert grain. A visiting researcher, Dr. Marte Haug, is under suspicion. Investigators must establish the exact sequence of events inside the vault and accession lab to determine when the swap occurred and how the substitution was concealed. Reconstruct the six events in the order they happened.
The scene
The Sverdal Regional Seed Bank, a permafrost cold vault and adjoining accession laboratory on the Norwegian Arctic coast, present day
The events
- Substitute tray prepared with inert grain
- Technician Olsen discovers the discrepancy during routine audit
- Dr. Haug requests temporary vault access
- Substitute tray returned to rack C-4 in the vault
- Tray SK-7 removed from its rack and carried to the accession lab
- Outer service gate locked for storm safety
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