Several weeks ago, the Spear of Destiny, the spear which pierced the side of Jesus on the cross, was verified by the Vatican and subsequently put up for auction. The auction never took place. The spear was stolen by a team of professionals with the aid of an inside man who gave them the codes to the auction house vault. The police began running the backgrounds of all the workers with access to the codes. Their search was quickly rendered useless. One Richard Petrov, an employee of the auction house, fled the country shortly after the heist. After interviewing his coworkers and examining government records, The Times has discovered his real name: Janko Savić, a fifty seven year old Serbian national. His name pops up in a few mundane places in The Republic Of Serbia, from tax returns to convictions for minor crimes in his teenage years. Savić appears numerous times in now declassified records of private arms deals between Serbian entities and American sellers, some illegal. Marcus van Door, AKA The Baron of Bullets, appears to have been in the same place at the same time as Savić seven times in the last fifteen years. The Baron, an international arms dealer, is not known for collecting antiques or religious relics. At this point, all of this could be incidental. But some coincidences are hard to overlook. The Baron has declined to comment. The Times will document this history as it unfolds.

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