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building from above and would target kiosks that were lightly guarded and
dilapidated. Since the ATMs were old, they did not have trigger alarms or

any countermeasures if someone broke into them. The CCTV footage inside
the kiosks of all three towns showed the same thing — A hand holding a spray

can and then blank footage. It was a gloved hand and at the part where the
glove ended, there was a small curve of ink on his wrist, giving the smallest

glimpse of a tattoo. But the image was way too pixelated to get a lead. And it
was impossible to find a man just by using the small curve of his tattoo. Later,

the footage from Copenhagen confirmed that they spotted a small curvature
of the tattoo in the hand that was caught on their CCTV. This reaffirmed the

connection with at least two of the robberies.

Cops were able to conclude that he stood at the camera’s blind spot to apply
the paint. This also meant that he had visited the kiosks before the robberies

to case the joint. The police also tried to navigate his expenditure by trying to
track the banknotes, using their serial numbers and asking shops nearby, but

that was a dead-end too. Besides, it was unseemly that someone as meticulous
as this thief would be too careless to spend the stolen money nonchalantly.

And there was also the fact that he hit 3 places as far as they knew — Green-
land, Copenhagen and Bonchester in that order. All these three towns were

quite far from each other; hence, it was difficult to locate where this man
might have been from. All they knew was that he was ready to travel for hours

to survey the banks first and then steal the money. He went for old and worn-
out ATMs which relatively had lesser money than the other new and updated

ATMs. The money stolen from the three kiosks each was roughly estimated
to be between 10,000 – 30,000 kroner.

Finneas along with the three others worked on the case and contacted several
police stations to find out if any old ATM kiosks were hit. The period be-

tween each robbery was random, erratic and did not have a consistent pattern.

The four of them worked for hours to study the case but did not find any
leads to the case. They all decided to visit the three kiosks one by one on

three different days, keeping Greenland for last since it was further away.
Mads and Cooper went along with Clark to Riverton in Greenland where the

ATM kiosk was. Finneas did not need to go since the image of the kiosk was
still fresh in his mind. But that was not the reason he did not go.

That day was when Jon the locksmith was coming to his house to check his
door locks which were jammed. Jon was the best in town and Finneas would