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Laura C. SmithPrincipal Investigator

Laura is Research Director of Khthon, a nonprofit that identifies mass graves and documents war crimes in more than 30 countries. She leads its analytical operations, combining open-source, satellite, and human intelligence into findings that meet strict verification standards.

She is also founder and CEO of Kairos Forensics, which builds cryptographic software for evidence integrity and chain of custody.

Her earlier work spans government security contracting and the technology startup sector. She holds a B.S. in Intelligence Analysis from James Madison University.

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Beale Cipher No. 2, describing where the treasure was buried.

The Beale Papers, published in Lynchburg in 1885, contain three ciphers said to locate gold, silver, and jewels buried in Bedford County, Virginia, in the 1820s. One was decoded using the Declaration of Independence. Two remain unsolved.

For more than a century, the ciphers have drawn a particular kind of person: two brothers who gave decades to them, codebreakers who fed them into some of the first computers, and hunters who crossed Bedford County with survey maps and land deeds, testing every theory against a hillside, a creek bed, or a property line. They exhausted the record, proved what they could on the ground, and stayed with it long after the trail went cold. Beale Investigations brings that same discipline to every case.

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// Beale Cipher No. 2: “an excavation or vault six feet below the surface of the ground”
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[[28,’a’],[353,’n’]],
[[37,’e’],[1005,’x’],[65,’c’],[147,’a’],[807,’v’],[24,’a’],[3,’t’],[8,’i’],[12,’o’],[47,’n’]],
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