"Five hundred envelopes fell out of the wall"

The Daily Crime

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4.3 • 627 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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In December, a plumber called in to a Houston radio show saying he discovered $600,000 in cash and checks while doing repair work at Lakewood Church, a megachurch founded by Joel Osteen. Investigators now say the discovery is tied to a 2014 theft. KHOU 11 Reporter Ugochi Iloka shares the story. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, before we get to today's interview, I wanted to first off say thanks for listening to The Daily Crime in 2021.
0:08.2	The show exists because you listen to it, and we hope you'll continue to tune in every day and keep telling your friends about it in the next year.
0:14.8	Speaking of which, this is our last episode before we take a brief holiday break.
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0:35.1	Coming up.
0:35.9	It seems very calculated.
0:37.4	I mean, in a wall?
0:39.2	In a wall.
0:40.7	All those envelopes of cash and checks.
0:44.8	Yeah, it definitely took some planning there.
0:48.0	For Vault Studios, I'm Reid Redmond.
0:50.3	You're listening to The Daily Crime.
0:58.8	Yeah. You're listening to The Daily Crime. In 2014, $600,000 was stolen from Lakewood Church, a megachurch in Houston, founded by Joel Osteen.
1:07.0	$600,000 in church donations disappeared after a Sunday service.
1:11.6	One staff member here told us off camera that whoever did this had to be a real low life.
1:16.6	For seven years, nobody's known where the money went.
1:19.6	But as it turns out, it didn't go very far.
1:22.6	I went to go remove the toilet and I moved some insulation away and about 500 envelopes fell out
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