WEBVTT 00:00.131 --> 00:05.554 [SPEAKER_00]: Every two weeks, employees at Carson and Blake Consulting received their paychecks. 00:06.894 --> 00:09.756 [SPEAKER_00]: But one Friday morning, nobody got paid. 00:11.116 --> 00:13.357 [SPEAKER_00]: At first, management blamed the bank. 00:14.218 --> 00:19.540 [SPEAKER_00]: Then they blamed a computer error, but an accountant discovered something much worse. 00:20.861 --> 00:29.645 [SPEAKER_00]: Someone had been stealing money from employees for nearly a year, and the person responsible had access to every paycheck. 00:30.868 --> 00:37.133 [SPEAKER_00]: Tonight's story is about money and vision betrayal and a deadline that could expose everything. 00:38.374 --> 00:40.795 [SPEAKER_00]: This is the missing payroll beginning. 00:41.996 --> 00:44.558 [SPEAKER_00]: Rebecca Lane was a company's payroll manager. 00:45.098 --> 00:46.059 [SPEAKER_00]: She loved numbers. 00:46.419 --> 00:47.780 [SPEAKER_00]: She loved solving problems. 00:48.721 --> 00:51.783 [SPEAKER_00]: And she was proud of the trust her company placed in her. 00:52.564 --> 00:54.125 [SPEAKER_00]: But Rebecca had a secret. 00:54.926 --> 00:56.207 [SPEAKER_00]: She was drowning in debt. 01:01.780 --> 01:04.283 [SPEAKER_00]: and she discovered something incredibly dangerous. 01:05.104 --> 01:10.410 [SPEAKER_00]: A small payroll adjustment could redirect and employee's paycheck into another account. 01:11.151 --> 01:14.014 [SPEAKER_00]: One account became two, two, became 10. 01:15.053 --> 01:17.115 [SPEAKER_00]: Rebecca began stealing small amounts. 01:17.615 --> 01:19.997 [SPEAKER_00]: She convinced herself that nobody would notice. 01:20.618 --> 01:23.320 [SPEAKER_00]: Then the amounts became larger, metal. 01:24.061 --> 01:27.684 [SPEAKER_00]: For almost a year, Rebecca manipulated payroll. 01:28.124 --> 01:30.466 [SPEAKER_00]: She created fake employee accounts. 01:30.987 --> 01:32.988 [SPEAKER_00]: She redirected overtime payments. 01:33.529 --> 01:34.610 [SPEAKER_00]: She altered records. 01:35.170 --> 01:40.635 [SPEAKER_00]: But then an internal auditor named James Carter noticed something strange. 01:41.355 --> 01:48.140 [SPEAKER_00]: The same bank account appeared under several different employee names, James began investigating. 01:49.441 --> 01:51.142 [SPEAKER_00]: Rebecca discovered what he was doing. 01:51.883 --> 01:52.663 [SPEAKER_00]: She confronted him. 01:53.544 --> 01:57.167 [SPEAKER_00]: James told her he was going to report the discrepancy Monday morning. 01:58.047 --> 01:59.889 [SPEAKER_00]: Rebecca had one weekend to stop him. 02:00.969 --> 02:03.551 [SPEAKER_00]: On Friday evening, James stayed late. 02:04.712 --> 02:09.456 [SPEAKER_00]: At 6.32pm, he sent an email to the company's chief financial 02:11.320 --> 02:14.221 [SPEAKER_00]: I found something serious we need to talk Monday. 02:15.421 --> 02:20.523 [SPEAKER_00]: At 640 PM James disappeared, his car remained in the parking lot. 02:21.403 --> 02:24.724 [SPEAKER_00]: His office door was locked, his computer was still running. 02:26.185 --> 02:31.227 [SPEAKER_00]: And police eventually discovered that Rebecca had followed James into the parking lot. 02:32.647 --> 02:33.547 [SPEAKER_00]: She confronted him. 02:39.762 --> 02:47.064 [SPEAKER_00]: Rebecca attempted to make the death appear unrelated to the payroll scheme, but investigators found the digital evidence. 02:48.144 --> 02:57.547 [SPEAKER_00]: Computer records showed Rebecca accessing the payroll system immediately before and after the estimated time of James' death. 02:58.587 --> 03:01.228 [SPEAKER_00]: Her financial records provided another clue. 03:02.186 --> 03:05.167 [SPEAKER_00]: Money had been transferred into accounts she controlled. 03:06.028 --> 03:09.109 [SPEAKER_00]: The missing payroll wasn't a computer error. 03:10.130 --> 03:12.791 [SPEAKER_00]: It was the beginning of a much larger crime. 03:14.171 --> 03:20.074 [SPEAKER_00]: Rebecca was arrested and charged, and the company changed its payroll security procedures. 03:21.034 --> 03:24.316 [SPEAKER_00]: James had planned to expose the theft on Monday. 03:25.356 --> 03:28.698 [SPEAKER_00]: He didn't get the chance, but the record spoke for him 03:32.136 --> 03:33.156 [SPEAKER_00]: they don't get scared. 03:34.157 --> 03:35.298 [SPEAKER_00]: And they don't forget. 03:36.378 --> 03:37.138 [SPEAKER_00]: Host out row. 03:38.079 --> 03:40.860 [SPEAKER_00]: You've been listening to the timekeepers dilemma. 03:41.500 --> 03:42.841 [SPEAKER_00]: True crime tales. 03:43.701 --> 03:49.664 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm the Wayne T. Remember, you can erase a message. 03:50.265 --> 03:51.945 [SPEAKER_00]: You can destroy a document. 03:52.646 --> 03:55.327 [SPEAKER_00]: But sometimes the numbers remember everything.