diff --git a/services/api/src/doctor.ts b/services/api/src/doctor.ts
index bc96c590..ec1051b5 100644
--- a/services/api/src/doctor.ts
+++ b/services/api/src/doctor.ts
@@ -740,7 +740,7 @@ async function checkReceiptIntegrity(db: Db, orgId: string): Promise<DoctorCheck
     return fail(
       "receipt_integrity",
       "Agent receipt integrity",
-      `${report.invalidRunIds.length} invalid and ${report.unauditedRunIds.length} unaudited receipts found across ${report.checked} runs.`,
+      `${report.invalidRunIds.length} invalid, ${report.unauditedRunIds.length} unaudited, and ${report.missingReceiptRunIds.length} audited-but-missing receipts found across ${report.checked} runs.`,
       "Stop outcome and learning jobs, preserve audit_events and runs, then investigate receipt mutation or an outdated runner.",
     );
   }
diff --git a/services/api/src/receipt-integrity.ts b/services/api/src/receipt-integrity.ts
index d2c09750..f5732ef5 100644
--- a/services/api/src/receipt-integrity.ts
+++ b/services/api/src/receipt-integrity.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@ export type ReceiptIntegrityReport = {
   checked: number;
   invalidRunIds: string[];
   unauditedRunIds: string[];
+  /** Audited run.finished digests whose run no longer carries a receipt —
+   * the receipt was destroyed or the run row deleted after the fact. Every
+   * terminal run writes its receipt and its audit event together, so this
+   * can only be an anomaly; it is reported distinctly from "never audited"
+   * so the two failure stories stay distinguishable. */
+  missingReceiptRunIds: string[];
 };
 
 export async function verifyStoredReceipts(
@@ -15,7 +21,13 @@ export async function verifyStoredReceipts(
   runIds?: string[],
 ): Promise<ReceiptIntegrityReport> {
   if (runIds?.length === 0) {
-    return { ok: true, checked: 0, invalidRunIds: [], unauditedRunIds: [] };
+    return {
+      ok: true,
+      checked: 0,
+      invalidRunIds: [],
+      unauditedRunIds: [],
+      missingReceiptRunIds: [],
+    };
   }
   const stored = await db
     .select({ id: runs.id, receipt: runs.receipt })
@@ -41,6 +53,11 @@ export async function verifyStoredReceipts(
   }
   const invalidRunIds: string[] = [];
   const unauditedRunIds: string[] = [];
+  const storedIds = new Set(stored.map((row) => row.id));
+  const scope = runIds ? new Set(runIds) : null;
+  const missingReceiptRunIds = [...auditedDigests.keys()].filter(
+    (id) => !storedIds.has(id) && (!scope || scope.has(id)),
+  );
   for (const row of stored) {
     const parsed = FacilityReceiptSchema.safeParse(row.receipt);
     if (!parsed.success || !verifyFacilityReceipt(parsed.data)) {
@@ -52,10 +69,14 @@ export async function verifyStoredReceipts(
     }
   }
   return {
-    ok: invalidRunIds.length === 0 && unauditedRunIds.length === 0,
+    ok:
+      invalidRunIds.length === 0 &&
+      unauditedRunIds.length === 0 &&
+      missingReceiptRunIds.length === 0,
     checked: stored.length,
     invalidRunIds,
     unauditedRunIds,
+    missingReceiptRunIds,
   };
 }
 
diff --git a/services/api/test/sandbox.test.ts b/services/api/test/sandbox.test.ts
index 139595d0..6ad9b784 100644
--- a/services/api/test/sandbox.test.ts
+++ b/services/api/test/sandbox.test.ts
@@ -1741,6 +1741,40 @@ describe("sandbox api", async () => {
     await expect(verifyStoredReceipts(db, orgId, [run.id])).resolves.toMatchObject({ ok: true });
   });
 
+  it("receipt integrity notices a receipt destroyed after run.finished was audited", async () => {
+    // #226: verifyStoredReceipts only walked runs that still HAVE a receipt,
+    // so nulling one (or deleting the run) silently shrank `checked` while ok
+    // stayed true. The reverse question — audited digest, no receipt behind
+    // it — must go red.
+    const token = "frt_receipt_destroyed";
+    const run = await insertRunnerRun(token, "running");
+    const response = await app.inject({
+      method: "POST",
+      url: `/internal/runs/${run.id}/result`,
+      headers: { authorization: `Bearer ${token}` },
+      payload: { status: "succeeded" },
+    });
+    expect(response.statusCode).toBe(200);
+    await expect(verifyStoredReceipts(db, orgId, [run.id])).resolves.toMatchObject({ ok: true });
+
+    await db.update(runs).set({ receipt: null }).where(eq(runs.id, run.id));
+    const nulled = await verifyStoredReceipts(db, orgId, [run.id]);
+    expect(nulled.ok).toBe(false);
+    expect(nulled.missingReceiptRunIds).toEqual([run.id]);
+    expect(nulled.invalidRunIds).toEqual([]);
+
+    // Scope is respected: asking about other runs stays clean.
+    const outOfScope = await verifyStoredReceipts(db, orgId, ["run_someone_else"]);
+    expect(outOfScope.missingReceiptRunIds).toEqual([]);
+
+    // A deleted run row is the same anomaly — the audit trail outlives it.
+    await db.delete(runEvents).where(eq(runEvents.runId, run.id));
+    await db.delete(runs).where(eq(runs.id, run.id));
+    const deleted = await verifyStoredReceipts(db, orgId);
+    expect(deleted.ok).toBe(false);
+    expect(deleted.missingReceiptRunIds).toContain(run.id);
+  });
+
   it("delivers run events over the NOTIFY-backed SSE path without safety polling", async () => {
     const token = "frt_stream";
     const run = await insertRunnerRun(token, "running");