There he removed some of the material and placed it in a vial for use in his subsequent blackmail attempt. He then sealed the cans and utilising the cart wheeled them outside to his car, where he placed them in the trunk. He then followed his entry route back to the main gate where he left the plant just before midnight. If he had left after midnight he would have been required to sign out. On Monday the 29th of January the plant manager found, slipped under his office door, a letter and vial containing a sample of the removed uranium. The six-page letter, which had been hand written by Dale, demanded 100,000 US dollars in exchange for the stolen uranium; to prove the authenticity of his action Dale provided serial numbers for the removed cans. If these demands were not met the letter threatened that similar vials of material would be sent to a mix of anti-nuclear groups, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), a mix of government and non-governmental organisations and major US newspapers. According to Dale this would turn the public against nuclear power and force the NRC to immediately down your plant’. If the plant contacted the authorities, ‘shut the contents of one of the cans would be spread through the downtown area of a major city and the price of the remaining can would rise to $200,000. This was ignored by the plant manager who, after checking the cans were indeed missing, contacted the NRC and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The investigation that was subsequently launched compared the handwriting in the letter to employee notes written to management at the plant. The FBI also contacted Murray Miron, a behavioural psychologist, who based on the contents of the letter constructed a behavioural profile of the perpetrator. This profile suggested that the authorities were looking for a 25-30 year old Caucasian male, who still worked at the facility and whose actions were likely solely financially motivated. This combined with other analyses allowed the FBI to quickly narrow the list of suspects down to Dale, whose handwriting was also judged to match that of the letter and he was arrested on Tuesday the 1st of February. He swiftly admitted his guilt and pointed the authorities to the missing cans, which were just three miles from the plant in a nearby field. In terms of impact it was claimed by papers at the time that the incident cost General Electric $1 million, as the plant
There he removed some of the material and placed it in a vial for use in his subsequent blackmail attempt. He then sealed the cans and utilising the cart wheeled them outside to his car, where he placed them in the trunk. He then followed his entry route back to the main gate where he left the plant just before midnight. If he had left after midnight he would have been required to sign out. On Monday the 29th of January the plant manager found, slipped under his office door, a letter and vial containing a sample of the removed uranium. The six-page letter, which had been hand written by Dale, demanded 100,000 US dollars in exchange for the stolen uranium; to prove the authenticity of his action Dale provided serial numbers for the removed cans. If these demands were not met the letter threatened that similar vials of material would be sent to a mix of anti-nuclear groups, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), a mix of government and non-governmental organisations and major US newspapers. According to Dale this would turn the public against nuclear power and force the NRC to immediately ‘shut down your plant’. If the plant contacted the authorities, the contents of one of the cans would be spread through the downtown area of a major city and the price of the remaining can would rise to $200,000. This was ignored by the plant manager who, after checking the cans were indeed missing, contacted the NRC and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The investigation that was subsequently launched compared the handwriting in the letter to employee notes written to management at the plant. The FBI also contacted Murray Miron, a behavioural psychologist, who based on the contents of the letter constructed a behavioural profile of the perpetrator. This profile suggested that the authorities were looking for a 25-30 year old Caucasian male, who still worked at the facility and whose actions were likely solely financially motivated. This combined with other analyses allowed the FBI to quickly narrow the list of suspects down to Dale, whose handwriting was also judged to match that of the letter and he was arrested on Tuesday the 1st of February. He swiftly admitted his guilt and pointed the authorities to the missing cans, which were just three miles from the plant in a nearby field. In terms of impact it was claimed by papers at the time that the incident cost General Electric $1 million, as the plant
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