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Lost Wedding Diamond Ring on Fairfax Station, Virginia Estate Lawn… Found by Ring Finder

  • from Washington (District of Columbia, United States)

Laura of Fairfax Station, Virginia So Beyond Excited for the Return of Her Most Precious Platinum Diamond Wedding Band that was Found by Ring Finder Brian Rudolph!

Laura’s Beautiful Platinum Wedding Band Surrounded by Lovely Diamonds Found by Brian Rudolph on Laura and Martin’s Gorgeous Estate in Fairfax Station, Virginia!

Brian Rudolph, Lost Item Recovery Specialist (Land, Water, Sand, Snow, Leaves, Houses & Vehicles) Will Find Your Lost Keepsake! Call ASAP (301) 466-8644!

I was contacted one winter afternoon by a very kind gentleman named Martin who was desperately trying to help his wife Laura recover her lost platinum diamond engagement ring and her platinum diamond wedding band that had both disappeared on their Fairfax Station, Virginia estate grounds sometime earlier that day. Martin planned to go and buy a metal detector to see if he could find the two pieces of jewelry before scheduling me out to his property. He just wanted to make sure that I was available if he should need my services in the end. As it turned out, Martin eyeballed the engagement ring without using his metal detector, but the wedding band could not be recovered. He kept trying to find the missing keepsake for several hours but finally in the end, the passionate husband decided to give up and “hand over the keys” of this search and recovery operation to me, Brian Rudolph, a proud member of the elite international directory of metal detectorists called THE RING FINDERS.

The backstory goes like this. Laura had expected some visitors later on in the day, so she went out to do some quick weeding and lawn touch-up around her beautiful estate. Even though it was the very first day of winter, she went outside the front door wearing just her pajamas and a robe to begin zealously removing some obvious unwanted plant life in some of her garden beds. Laura took off her wedding band and engagement ring and placed them in her left upper pajama shirt pocket for safekeeping. She figured that since she would be pulling weeds out of the ground, she didn’t want her rings to get dirty and possibly slip off and disappear somewhere in the flower beds. Unfortunately, the young lady didn’t think that her most precious jewelry would fall out of her pajama pocket when she leaned over at some point during her outdoor mission that particular day.

The reason that it was so difficult for Martin to find either one of the rings at first was because Laura had been all over their gorgeous Virginia property. She first started in the circular driveway and did some weeding in the center garden bed. Laura also took a walk down the driveway over to the mailbox and at some point she threw some unwanted weeds out into the leaves located just off of the concrete drive. Then, the busy woman made her way to the left side of the house and continued to weed in some of the garden beds along the side and backyard sections of the estate. There was plenty of leaning forward and bending over to “pretty up” the yard, so unless one was willing to check all of the spots where Laura tended to, it would be very difficult to be completely certain as to where the wedding band and engagement ring fell to the ground.

As it turned out, Martin was so blessed to be able to eyeball the engagement ring just outside of the perimeter of one of the garden beds located on the side of the house. Even though Martin metal detected all around that same section of the side yard, there was no evidence that Laura’s beloved wedding band came out of her pocket in any of that same territory. It was completely up in the air as to where the second ring finally made its way out of her clothes and dropped into the grass or into one of the flowerbeds.

Laura was extremely upset about the whole incident and she so appreciated Martin trying to find her missing rings. When his second effort failed in recovering the wedding band, that’s when the diligent husband made arrangements with me to come out the following day and assist in the project.

Sometime later in the afternoon the following day, I drove out to Martin and Laura’s beautiful Fairfax Station, Virginia estate. It was such a lovely drive as I made my way back into the woods and then followed their long driveway (which was surrounded by crape myrtle trees) until it opened up onto their lovely estate grounds.

Upon arriving, I told Laura that I found her husband Martin to be one of the nicest guys I had ever talked to. Though we only spoke on the phone a couple of times, I read this particular fellow like a book. He was genuinely filled with unlimited respect and thoughtfulness. Truly, I was honored to serve the two of them that late afternoon into the evening hours to come.

Both Laura and Martin showed me around the property and oriented me to each and every place where Laura had walked around that particular morning when she was doing her outdoor work. Once I finished asking all of my questions as we toured the breathtaking estate grounds, I went back to my car to retrieve my metal detecting equipment and then decided to start my search over by the circular driveway.

By the time all of my gear was powered on, darkness began to fall quite quickly. Just before pairing the detector with my headphones, I turned on my high lumens headlamp and began scanning all of that section to see if the ring may had fallen out of the pajama pocket prior to the other ring coming out of the shirt over by the side yard where Martin found the first one. After approximately 30 minutes of swinging my coil, I was able to confirm that the platinum wedding band (which held numerous diamonds around its channel) was not in that location.

Next, I went down the long driveway towards the main street and metal detected all along the sides of the concrete path leading to the mailbox. Once again, Laura’s beautiful band was nowhere to be found in that region, as well.

Continuing on, I took my next leg of the search to the portion of lawn located on the left side of the house where Martin had found the first ring. When nothing turned up inside and around the outside perimeter of the flowerbeds, I moved towards the backyard and detected all of those beds as well. I did some searching down their backyard hill that led into the woods where just leaves covered the ground, but I purposely avoided scanning too much of that area due to the amount of time it would take to clear that portion of the estate. I chose to focus mainly on the flowerbeds and just outside of the gardens since those were the primary areas where Laura leaned forward to do her weed removal.

My plan was this: if I didn’t find the wedding band in any of the regions where Laura had been working, I would then start to do my grid search lines on the lawn starting back at the side yard and then work my way to the rear of the house. Because of the fact that all of the garden beds appeared to be free of possessing the lost diamond keepsake, I had no reason to doubt that the jewel was hiding on the grassy lawn somewhere on their estate. At that stage in the search I concluded that the band must had come out of the pajama pocket some time while Laura might have leaned forward on the grass itself to perhaps pick up a stray weed or two.

As I focused on metal detecting the side lawn area, I chose to do air grid lines (which means I did not use cones or tapes to help keep me swinging my detector coil in straight lines) since I felt pretty confident that I was able to move across the lawn in straight lines without missing a square inch of property.

Throughout the search. I would pick up all kinds of target signals that had the potential of being the lost ring. There were miscellaneous pieces of aluminum and I pulled quite a few of those garden plant labels which indicated what was growing underneath that particular part of the flower bed. However, as much as I had scanned the sections that I had previously detected, all of my potential signals came up negative for the ring.

I must have been on the third or fourth grid line where I had been detecting over the grass along the side yard, when I hit a pretty good signal approximately 8 feet or so from the flower bed where Martin had found the engagement ring just outside of its perimeter. My detector was calibrated to pick up a range of target numbers that were common when searching for rings just like the one that Laura owned. As a professional metal detectorist, I am very familiar with pretty much every kind of wedding band and engagement ring and how it comes up on my detector screen. This particular number that I was getting on my Minelab Equinox 800 machine was very symptomatic of picking up a lady’s petite white gold or platinum wedding band or engagement ring. I had been told by the couple that Laura’s ring size was a tiny petite Size 4 and so this particular signal lined up well with the potential of this being Laura’s ring.

I quickly knelt down on the grass to check the target out, aimed my headlamp towards the ground (remember, I had been working in complete darkness for some time other than utilizing my headlamp above me) and pulled out my handheld pinpointer to begin isolating the exact spot where my metal detector had given me that awesome target signal. It was at that very moment that I could see between the blades of grass the most beautiful diamond wedding band that Laura and Martin had been so longing to be reunited with! I found it! The target signal that I was getting on my machine was in fact that of Laura’s sentimental piece of platinum! The diamonds that so gracefully surrounded the band’s set channel began to sparkle brilliantly as my headlamp light reflected off of the many facets belonging to the priceless stones! I indeed recovered the ring! I found the lost wedding band and most importantly I was so overjoyed for Laura’s sake! It turned out that the ring had come out of the pajama pocket just feet away from where the engagement ring had made its way to the ground. I had previously thought that that was the reason why I could not find the jewel in any of the flower and garden beds. Laura must have leaned forward to pick up a weed on the main lawn approximately 8 feet from the flower bed where she also lost the engagement ring that Martin had eyeballed earlier on. Which ring made its way out of Laura’s pocket first? The answer is: we will never know. I was just so happy to be visualizing Laura slipping her precious keepsake back on her finger in the moments that followed!

Just as I was starting to stand up after recovering the ring from the grass, I noticed that Laura was standing over by her front porch observing my search from afar. I had already been detecting for over an hour and a half and so I was pretty certain that my client was getting worried that perhaps I too might have to walk away that evening without finding her precious jewel. I wasn’t sure if she thought that I had found the ring or not at the moment when I knelt down to the ground, but I was hoping that I could at least try to fake her out and surprise her with the beautiful diamond ring shortly after calling her over to that grassy section of the lawn.

Once I was able to lure Laura over to where I was previously metal detecting, I am proud to share that I successfully surprised my client with the wonderful news that I had found Laura’s missing wedding band! I will never forget her stunned face when I brought out that beautiful piece of platinum filled with diamonds as I placed it in front of her eyes! It was as if she had just received that ring for the very first time (that very special moment in Washington DC when Martin proposed to his future bride!). It really was a fantastic experience and just like all of my other reveals, this one certainly took the cake, as well! I was beyond happy for Laura and she could not have been more excited and more grateful for my successful efforts in recovering this loss jewel from her property!

Once I showed Laura the very spot where I pulled the ring from the ground, she called Martin (who was in the house) to let him know that she was wearing her priceless wedding band once again! Within seconds, Laura’s elated husband was out on his side lawn joining the two of us with the most excited look on his face! I concluded that the metal detector that Martin was using would not have been able to pick up the platinum band (as many metal detectors would be unsuccessful in doing so based on the limited technology that the machines are built with). Martin definitely made the right decision to call in a professional like myself who is familiar with finding rings very similar to Laura’s and to do so without missing a single target signal!

The three of us celebrated out there in the dark on the side lawn with unlimited excitement about the discovery I had made just minutes before the couple were handed the very happy news that I had recovered the missing ring! It was just five days before Christmas and I’m sure Laura felt like she was already getting her first gift from dear old Santa Claus!

When I left Martin and Laura’s beautiful estate, I was so pleased at the results that I had delivered to this wonderful couple! Using my expertise and personal passion to recover such meaningful pieces of jewelry for such lovely people as this couple was, just completely made my day!

As I have shared many times before in prior publications, I love what I do for all of my clients with helping the masses recover their lost property, and I certainly love the people that I do these search and recovery operations for as well!

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HE WILL RETURN TO YOU WHAT HAS BEEN LOST!

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Metal Detecting Lost Gold Wedding Band in Burtonsville, Maryland…Found

  • from Washington (District of Columbia, United States)

Kristina’s Austrian 14 Karat White Gold Wedding Band Found After Three Weeks by Metal Detectorist Brian Rudolph in Burtonsville, Maryland

Kristina Showing Off Her Wedding Band After Member of THE RING FINDERS, Brian Rudolph, Recovers the Lost Sentimental Keepsake!

Brian Rudolph, Lost Item Recovery Specialist (Land, Water, Sand, Snow, Leaves, Houses & Vehicles) Will Find Your Lost Keepsake! Call ASAP (301) 466-8644!

I received a call from a young lady named Kristina who lost her wedding band three weeks earlier. She told me that she was tending to her mums that were in planters out on her rear deck of her Burtonsville, Maryland home. There was snow and ice everywhere and she didn’t want the plants to be harmed by the outside conditions. Once Kristina finished her task of removing all of the frost from her winter white friends, she started to make her way back inside her place. Just as she opened the rear French door to escape the cold, the amateur botanist brushed off some excess snow that had gathered up on her right sleeve and then all of sudden Kristina felt her Austrian made 14 karat white gold wedding ring fly off of her left hand’s ring finger! The bewildered woman also heard a “ping” that quickly sounded following the release of the sentimental piece from her finger. As she recounted the story with me, Kristina went on to share that the ring was jettisoned towards the back of her house in the direction of the lawn that was a full level below her.

Kristina and her wife Kori believed that the ring had ricocheted off of the deck’s floor or from the top of the deck railing and fell on either the white pebbles and stones or somewhere on the grass below. Immediately the hunt took place but neither one of the ladies were able to find Kristina’s band. Over the course of the next 3 weeks, the two of them invested several hours of devoted searching, using two detectors: one that belonged them and one that belonged to their neighbor. Still, the couple was unsuccessful in recovering the jewel that seemed to disappear into thin air. They were so perplexed by the situation that they wondered if perhaps an animal came along and snatched it from their yard or that maybe somebody was walking their dog out back and just happened to eyeball it, failed to report it to the couple and simply walked off with the ring. During those several weeks, it caused Kristina to really scratch her head as the “mystery of the disappearing ring” could not be solved.

At some point during the conclusion of  the three week mark, Kristina went online and surfed the net for some additional help. She happened to come across a listing for THE RING FINDERS, an international directory of metal detectorists who are specialists in recovering lost items such as rings and other jewelry. That’s where I, Brian Rudolph, come into the story. The couple saw on the directory that I provided metal detecting services in Burtonsville, Maryland. I received the call from Kristina while I was at another search site and the very next day I was driving to my new client’s home.

As soon as I arrived, Kristina took me out back to see the “scene of the crime” so-to-speak. I met Kori and the two of them gave me all of the information that I needed to start the search. Because the couple owned matching rings, I metal detected Kori’s band to analyze the VDI (Visual Display Indicator) number that showed me how the machine would read Kristina’s white gold the moment that I would swing my detector over it. This was extremely helpful information to have during my search. I then returned to my vehicle, grabbed my necessary metal detecting equipment and returned to the back yard where I started the search on the second level deck.

Within minutes of scanning the rear deck (checking out each gap between the floor boards as well as all of the furniture to make sure the band didn’t end up around or between the cushions) I concluded that the precious metal did not remain on that level when it flew off of Kristina’s hand. It had to have landed below.

The next areas that I searched were the steps that led down to the ground level and a section of white rocks and stones that just cleared the deck area above. All of it appeared to be free of concealing my client’s keepsake. I didn’t need to detect underneath the deck because there was no way that the band could fit between any of the board, therefore, I could also rule out that particular spot on the property, as well. The ring had to have cleared the deck and landed somewhere along the parameter of the property that stretched farther away from the house. How far away? That question would soon be answered.

Knowing what Kristina heard immediately following the moment when she felt the loose “halo” slide off of her finger, and deducting the square footage that I had already searched, I took my investigation over to the grassy lawn just on the rear side of the property adjacent to the wooden stairway that led to the ground level. There were flagstone steps that led around the lawn over to the side of the house in the direction of where I had first entered from. That was the area that I would focus on and spread my search out from there if I still came up with nothing.

As I moved along the stretch of grass, scanning for metal with my detector in hand, I finally hit a great signal. Up to that point in time, I had little to get excited about. Yes, there were the occasional counterfeit hits on my detector screen that appeared to show similarities to Kristina’s ring, including pieces of metal that were settled on the surface and not buried below. However, they were all false alarms. Yet, this particular target that I was so intrigued about really resembled the VDI number that Kori’s band displayed on my detector screen during my earlier test. I eagerly knelt down on the ground to check out what my machine was registering on the screen, pulled out my handheld detector to help me zero-in on exactly where that piece of metal was hiding, and that’s when my face lit up with excitement! Just as I fingered my way through the blades of grass, there before my eyes, hidden below all of the brown and green plant life, I spotted the identical twin ring that I had been searching for all that time! It was located just a few feet from where the deck’s vertical support beams connected to the stairway that led to the second level above! In total, the ring traveled approximately 30 feet from where it initially flew off of Kristina’s finger as she was entering the house!

I was so happy to return the ring to its proper owner and witness the smiles that I had received following my surprise reveal! The couple couldn’t believe where I had found the gold piece because they had used their two metal detectors all around that section of the property and yet for three weeks they came away with nothing! I wrapped up the search in roughly 30 minutes or less! It just goes to show that having a metal detector or two doesn’t make you a successful detectorist! It takes many hours of learning, testing and experiencing the machine that you are working with in order to become proficient with it. I was so delighted that my ability to find rings for people everywhere in the Maryland, Virginia, Washington DC, Delaware, Pennsylvania and West Virginia areas had also helped Kristina bring this “mystery of the ring fling” case to a complete close and thankfully with much success indeed!

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HE WILL RETURN TO YOU WHAT HAS BEEN LOST!

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How to Find a Lost Gold Diamond Ring in Toyota Camry…Found in Winchester, Virginia

  • from Washington (District of Columbia, United States)

Adam’s Sentimental Family Heirloom Ring Recovered by Ring Finder Brian Rudolph from the Wreckage of the Owner’s Toyota Camry!

Adam Still in Shock That His Beloved Gold Diamond Family Heirloom Ring Was Found by In-Vehicle Item Recovery Specialist Brian Rudolph!

Brian Rudolph, Lost Item Recovery Specialist (Land, Water, Sand, Snow, Leaves, Houses & Vehicles) Will Find Your Lost Keepsake! Call ASAP (301) 466-8644!

A man named Adam called me and requested my help in recovering a lost 14 karat yellow gold 1.75 carat diamond family heirloom ring that his father had willed to him following his dad’s passing a year earlier. Six months after his father’s death, Adam and his friend were driving in his Toyota Camry after a night out on the Winchester, Virginia town. Adam was very upset because of some family dealings with someone who greatly mistreated him regarding a very private matter. It was so severe and hurtful that Adam allowed his friend to drive while he poured out his heart on the way back to his place.

At some point during that commute towards home, as Adam sat in the front passenger seat, he took two rings off of his finger. Both were family heirloom rings that he inherited from his father and in anger he threw them towards the dashboard. Thankfully, he was able to recover one of the rings when his friend pulled the 2017 Camry over to the side of the road. However, the more cherished 14 karat gold diamond ring was nowhere to be found. Adam and his friend searched everywhere for the missing jewel, but neither man was able to pull it from the vehicle. It made no sense to the friends for a chunky men’s ring to simply disappear like that into seemingly this air!

For the next six months, Adam kept looking for the lost heirloom as it was so meaningful to him knowing that it was one of the only remaining possessions from his late father. It meant the world to him and he could not figure out how this piece of gold could have been lost that easily in a confined environment like a car. There were only three possibilities to explain what had happened to the jewel. One, his friend had taken it (which Adam didn’t believe he did based on what Adam did to make certain that his friend at the time had nothing to do with the disappearance of the ring – I can’t elaborate), Two, when the guys were getting out of the vehicle on the side of the road to search for the two rings, one of the two pieces of gold fell out of the car from the lap of either Adam or his friend and then fell onto the concrete of the road, never to be discovered by either man on that dreadful night. Three, somehow the ring never left the vehicle and it somehow found a hiding place somewhere in a space that neither fellow had the ability to spot when attempting to recover the precious metal and stone from the Camry. Finally, four, the ring was later found in the vehicle by someone other than Adam and his friend – possibly a mechanic or detailer who stumbled across the sentimental keepsake while working on the car.

Adam didn’t give up the hunt for his dad’s special ring. He kept searching the car day after day, week after week and then month after month! The poor guy looked under the seats, under the dashboard, under and around the outer foot carpets, in and between the seats and the center console. Unfortunately, with all of Adam’s efforts to locate the ring, still nothing ever turned up and he was emotionally devastated over the whole ordeal.

Sadly, the loss of Adam’s family heirloom became the least of his problems. Six months after the ring went missing (two weeks before my client contacted me), Adam was involved in a very serious car accident involving another automobile that T-boned his vehicle causing irreparable damage to the Camry. Adam’s car was deemed a total loss. Once the Toyota was removed from the scene of the accident, it was taken to a Winchester, Virginia body shop where the insurance companies began to assess the damage and preceded to roll up their sleeves for the legal battle to come.

The poor owner of the destroyed vehicle had only two weeks to wrap up his six month investigation to find his missing ring. If his efforts would lead to no avail and the treasure was somehow still in the mangled piece of metal, the family jewel along with the trashed automobile would be sent to the boneyard and then eventually placed in the crusher once and for all!

It was at the end of that two week grace period that Adam looked online for help and found THE RING FINDERS, the elite international directory of metal detecting specialists who are experts in finding lost rings! When Adam searched the directory for the closest specialist to him, my contact information popped up. He immediately called me and we had a long conversation discussing not only his horrific story but also the many details regarding the ring itself. I was quite intrigued with Adam’s account and it got me excited to assist this poor fellow with my expertise in helping my client search for the lost ring inside the Camry.

A few days after we initially spoke on the phone, Adam and I planned out a day for me to travel the hour and a half trip to Winchester, Virginia where I would be given the opportunity to search Adam’s wrecked Camry. It was going to be a cold one outside but I was definitely up for the challenge to be out in the elements while searching for my client’s beloved ring. I had recently recovered another ring in a vehicle for a young lady in Alexandria, Virginia just about two months earlier. I couldn’t wait to try to add another story to my resume of successful in-vehicle searches and recoveries!

The entire drive to Winchester was absolutely breathtaking. The countryside was beautiful and I enjoyed talking with the locals as I stopped at a couple of country stores along the way to grab a snack or something to drink. I always love these fun adventures and most importantly I have such passion to try and help people like Adam recover such priceless sentimental treasures!

When I arrived at the Winchester auto body shop lot, Adam got out of his truck and we greeted one another. He then took me over to the destroyed 2017 Toyota Camry and began to show me what he had already searched inside that mass of mangled metal and plastic. The car was a real mess indeed. I must say that when he first showed me the automobile, I was shocked by what my eyes beheld. The dashboard was completely missing except for the basic metal frame that once held all of the compartments and pieces to the metal reinforcements. What remained in the vehicle looked like a mutilated slice of Swiss cheese! There were huge sections where a crowbar must had been used to pry open pieces of the dashboard frame along with many holes that were drilled all over the front of the cabin to allow for access. There was so much mutilation that in certain places you could see right through the firewall into the engine compartment because the gentleman had destroyed and or removed most of what once was the automobile’s dashboard! It was insane what I was looking at!

Next, my client took me around to the back of the car and there on the ground was the rest of the dashboard along with another key component that he had tucked away in his trunk so that the rain would not destroy what was left of the electronics. I had never seen anything like this before which said a lot because I myself used to manage several body shops way back in my younger years. I had seen a lot of crazy wrecks in my days, but nothing like what this guy did to the vehicle from the inside of the car! My client’s desperate mission was to dissect every square inch of the dashboard, hoping that he would find the ring somewhere in the vent system or some other spot where the piece of gold may had gotten trapped within a crevice or corner inside the dash.

This fellow had done so much cutting, drilling and demolition to the instrument panels and the rest of the dashboard frame that I honestly wasn’t sure what was left for me to search. There were so many holes and open areas that were now exposed to the human eye that I couldn’t even see where a ring could still be trapped or hiding in any of those places! It was truly unbelievable what I was seeing! This started to worry me because my options were already reduced by 70% as to where the ring might still have been hiding. I was kind of disappointed that I had fewer places to search and with everything that was taken out of the car or cut open for inspection, I thought that the odds of me finding the ring were already very slim since Adam had done so much removal work of potential obstacles while he was searching for endless hours, days, weeks and even months for his father’s ring.

Once Adam finished giving me the run down as to where he searched and what he had removed to get access to, I asked my client if he would be fine with me leading us in a prayer to the Lord, asking for divine favor in this search of ours. Adam was completely into the idea and so we prayed for God’s wisdom and provide me with the ability to find the lost ring if it was still in the vehicle. Then, I returned to my car to gather up all of the tools and gear that I needed to conduct this search. Adam had told me on the phone the other day that he actually rented a metal detector and had searched the dashboard for his missing ring. He believed that he came across what appeared to be a 14 karat gold piece of jewelry according to what the detector screen indicated. I sensitively and carefully shared with Adam that when there is a search that involves trying to recover an item inside a vehicle, one cannot use a metal detector to scan for the missing object. The reason for this is because there is so much metal that’s in a car that there is no way to effectively detect for precious metal. You cannot distinguish between one piece of metal and another. Furthermore, I explained to my client that gold is a nonferrous metal and there are endless pieces of nonferrous materials in a car. Therefore, the type of tools and gear that I brought over to the Camry for my inspection would not involve devices and machines that would detect for gold. I would have to use my headlamp and endoscope (which is a video camera snake intended to search narrow areas that the naked eye cannot see).

I began my search in the vehicle by first using the endoscope inside what remained of the dashboard. The whole procedure was fairly simple and quite brief in time because (as I indicated early) Adam had already disassembled and destroyed most of what was originally bolted to the firewall and frame of the Camry! Still, I made certain that the yellow gold and diamond heirloom was not trapped or wedged into any remaining piece of metal or plastic in all of those regions.

Next, I looked at all of the remaining components and dashboard compartments that Adam had removed and placed towards the back of the vehicle. I wanted to make sure that the ring did not end up somewhere in any of the large pieces of vehicle that he had removed prior to this search. Still, all of that checked out clean of any jewelry. It was then time to begin searching under the front seats, starting with the passenger side and then working my way over to the driver’s bucket type recliner.

As soon as I brought my gear over to the right passenger side of the vehicle, I placed my endoscope underneath the front area of the front passenger seat and studied every corner and crevice that was below.  One must always have patience when it comes to searching and studying all of the possible places where a one inch or less piece of precious metal could possibly end up. After exhausting each and every angle and spot where my camera could be inserted for inspection under that seat, I was confident once again that Adam’s ring was not under the front passenger side seat. I checked the rails and it was not wedged along the sides, as well. When everything checked out under the front passenger seat, I decided to double check my work by heading to the back of the same front passenger seat and take a look again but this time from the rear side. With more disappointment, I still could not locate the ring.

The piece of jewelry that I was looking for was not dainty and thin like a woman’s diamond engagement ring. This was a chunky regular sized men’s ring that was definitely manufactured back in the 1960s or mid 1970s, so it would not be something that could easily hide. That’s why I was really getting concerned that my trip to Winchester might only end up serving one purpose and that would be to simply bring closure for my client.

At that point in the search, I had only two sections of the vehicle left to examine. First, I would check under the rear portion of the driver’s seat. Then secondly, to check out the front area under the driver’s seat. After that, there would be nothing left to search and my time in Winchester would come to its conclusion. I have been in situations like this before where I had pretty much exhausted all of the possibilities as to where the missing item might had ended up. It would all come down to the final minute to see if the precious jewel would be recovered or not. This search operation certainly looked like it was heading that direction!

The area around the driver’s seat was the very last place that I could investigate. Honestly speaking, I wasn’t thinking that there was much chance for me to pull the ring from the wreckage at that point in the game. Yet, I always try to give it my all right up to the end, even when the chips are down and it doesn’t look very bright on the other side of the search.

Once I made my way over to the rear section of the driver’s side seat, I began to take my endoscope and wielded it underneath the leather part, checking all of the hidden spaces where one would not be able to see with their own eyes. If a piece of jewelry was caught up in the rails or within the seat’s electronics that were bolted below, I would be able to identify it with the scope. I looked in the floor seat vent as well as underneath where the “wall to wall” floor and console carpets met up with one another and still there was nothing found (other than some broken glass, tons of miscellaneous nuts and bolts and pieces of scrap metal from the accident). There were also some personal possessions that ended up wedged between the carpet and the flooring underneath the driver side seat but there was absolutely no sign of Adam’s beloved treasure.

I spent a great deal of time in this environment because I knew that this was the last leg of my search and I did not want to make any mistakes or to leave any question as to whether or not I gave it my all in trying to recover this item. When I could not identify anything that resembled the gold ring, it was time to search the final location which was underneath the driver’s seat once more, but this time it needed to be examined from the front side. Why did I choose working in the rear section of the driver’s seat first? It was just simply my personal preference and nothing more as to why I chose that area over studying the front side of that same seat.

Again, I placed my endoscope underneath the seat from the front side and viewed my monitor screen as I scanned every square inch of that undetected area. Still, everything checked out negative of any signs of jewelry. I continued to spot little personal possessions and random coins that had made their way under the seat due to the great impact that took place when Adam was T-boned by the other car. Other little objects probably had ended up down there over time as things would naturally fall out of pockets while driving.

After completing that particular section of the car seat, there was nothing left for me to search. I ran out of any more options at that point…or did I? Just as I was about to wrap things up and begin to put my things away, I looked down at the driver side carpet where it met the door kick panel. I noticed that Adam’s Camry had its fuel door and trunk release levers fastened to the floor just to the left front area of the driver side seat. It was then that I came up with one more procedure to try out before officially calling it quits.

As I had mentioned earlier, two months prior to this vehicle search, I had found a lady’s platinum wedding band that had gone missing for over a year. I ended up looking in this same particular spot at the final minute of that Alexandria, Virginia search. The lady’s Subaru Outback’s fuel door release lever was located in the exact place as Adam’s Toyota Camry’s release levers. The odds that I would find this ring in the same location that I had found the other band was almost 100% improbable of repeating. However, I had nothing to lose at that point and until I fully exhausted every possible location to search, my investigation was not closed!

In thinking about all of the factors that played into the two very different in-vehicle searches, I found myself starting to doubt that even with that tiny possibility that I would find my client’s ring in the same location, it was too improbable to believe that there could be a “repeat performance” of the last in-vehicle success. Here’s why I thought this:

One, the two vehicles were quite different in their makes and models.

Two, the release mechanisms were somewhat similar in design but were quite different in other ways (I will highlight this fact later on).

Three, these were “back to back” in-vehicle searches. What was the likelihood that I would find Adam’s ring in the same location that I found the other lady’s ring in consecutive in-vehicle searches (one right after the other)?

Four, the lady’s ring that I had found two months earlier was completely different in design, shape, size and weight! Adam’s heirloom was chunkier, not petite nor slim like the simple platinum band that I had miraculously discovered in the Subaru Outback. Therefore, the pieces of metal would most likely react differently in terms of where and what they could possibly slide into or behind something in order to cause the object to disappear out of sight. Also, with the two rings being so completely different in every regard, the likelihood that both rings could wedge themselves under the same auto part and travel somewhat in the same general direction to ultimately be effectively hidden from their owners, has to be less than a 1% chance of this happening!

Five, the two rings that had been lost in the two owner’s vehicles had two completely different circumstances that led to the disappearance of both of those keepsakes! The lady was simply driving down the street and twirling her wedding band above the steering wheel as she commuted towards home. It dropped and disappeared. Adam threw his ring from the right front passenger seat and then six months later the vehicle is involved in a near death collision! These were two completely different scenarios!

As you just read, I think I made my point that it was nearly impossible that the first recovery location could be mirrored once again in this current search.

As I began to prepare my equipment to search the inner chamber of the fuel door / trunk release lever housing, I thought to myself, ‘I’m going to check this area out, but there’s no way that this ring could end up in the same location that I found that other one. Yet, I have nothing to lose’. I proceeded to take my endoscope snake and lifted up the fuel door release lever that was on the driver side floor in front of the seat (which is common in many vehicle models), and began to push the scope slowly and carefully into the plastic housing that covered the mechanism that controls the release of the trunk and the fuel door. As I viewed what was on my monitor screen, I began seeing more coins and a very interesting field of dust and debris scattered about in that little tiny section that was wedged between the carpet and the metal floor of the vehicle. I was extremely surprised at finding items in that very isolated space which normally I couldn’t even imagine how some of the objects could have ended up in that particular chamber. I observed on my monitor: a Bic cigarette lighter, a couple of quarters and pennies and a few other personal items that belonged to the driver that somehow ended up in that area.

When I reported to Adam that I had found a Bic cigarette lighter in that isolated region, he was perplexed by what I had found because he said that he didn’t even use Bic lighters. My client did indicate that the Camry was a pre-owned vehicle and perhaps the lighter had been jammed down in that narrow space prior to him possessing the car. What really intrigued me about the lighter was that this object somehow made its way into this very small cavity along with some of the other items I identified with the scope. I just couldn’t figure out how the objects traveled into and down that narrow space under the carpet. Of course, it would have to take some kind of dramatic impact such as a collision to allow for such miscellaneous debris to travel into that corridor of space around the mechanism that controlled the trunk and fuel door releases. However, it is important to remind the reader that because the ring had disappeared 6 months prior to the car accident, we have to conclude that some (if not all) of those miscellaneous items that I was observing had somehow already found their way into that narrow passageway before the collision had ever occurred.

As I observed more items that were buried below the carpet that appeared on my screen, the more I actually began getting encouraged that perhaps there was a slight chance that maybe Adam’s piece of gold was also mixed up in all of that “under-carpet” clutter, as well! If all of those objects had somehow made their way down into that chamber, who was to say that the ring couldn’t have found its resting place back there as well? I thought to myself that if a cigarette lighter, large coins and even an unopened chewing gum package could all make their way to that very isolated environment, why couldn’t a men’s chunky gold diamond ring be possibly hiding in that same region?!

With much determination to cover every millimeter in that confined space between the carpet and the metal frame of the floor, I maneuvered my endoscope back-and-forth and searched around that congested debris field. More miscellaneous objects began to show up as I twisted the cable around to observe as much as I could. Then, something amazing took place. Just as I pushed the long snake camera lens further into the dark pathway below some type of floor metal reinforcement bracket, my camera picked up something that became of great interest to me. I didn’t want to get overly excited but while I was scanning one particular angle inside that chamber that I had been working with, I saw what appeared to be a circular shaped object that resembled a yellow gold ring. At first I could only catch a portion of that particular target. However, as I was able to maneuver the snake in a particular way with a new technique that I hadn’t tried before, I was able to catch a couple of more new angles of that particular object.

The closer I got to this very curious item with the endoscope, the more my heart raced faster and faster! Just as the lens was able to bring the target of interest into clear focus, it was at that very moment that I was able to finally identify what appeared to be some type of jewelry. It turned out to be much better than just any piece of jewelry indeed! Instead, to my greatest surprise and shock, the endoscope lens and monitor allowed me to view for the first time…Adam’s late father’s yellow gold diamond ring! I could not believe what I was looking at and where this amazing family heirloom had been hiding all along!

I must share with my reader just how blown away I was upon seeing what turned up on the screen! As my eyes were laser focused on the monitor that clearly identified the amazing gold diamond ring, I felt an uncontrollable charge of emotion just shoot through my entire being! I did it! I actually did it! I had found Adam’s lost diamond ring! Because it was so over-the-top crazy as to where I had located the missing-in-action sentimental keepsake (as well as discovering the ring at the last possible notch on the clock of time), the whole experience seemed too surreal to be a true reality! This recovery was absolutely incredible! I wholeheartedly believed at that very moment that our earlier prayer of petitioning the Lord for divine help had truly come to fruition and that my Heavenly Father had most definitely favored me and blessed Adam with this fantastic find!

I was not about to wait to surprise Adam by trying to extract the ring before revealing the incredible news with him! No way! First, I laid down my endoscope (which was still inside the housing piece that I had been working through to gain access to what I eventually found). Then, I quickly rose to my feet and went straight towards Adam to blow his mind with the news of what I had just viewed on my video device!

“Adam, you are not going to believe this, but I just found your missing ring! I did it, Adam, I found your ring! I’m not kidding!” He looked at me as if he was in some kind of trance upon hearing the unbelievable news! He was trying to process the whole surreal statement that I had just shared with him! Because it was all too crazy that I would find the jewel in the place that I discovered it and that the timing of when I had found it seemed impossible as well (being the final spot to check) Adam was somewhat thinking that the incredible update that I had so excitedly given him was just a big farce! He too could not believe what was happening! It was quite hard to grasp the truth that where I claimed that I saw his ring was actually an accurate account of what was taking place. I immediately brought my bewildered client over to view what I had discovered and within a minute or two of regaining the spot that I had positioned the camera initially, both of our set of eyes were seeing the evidence of my fantastic claim that I had found the ring!

At that moment, Adam just lost it! He walked around like as if he was in a trance! We hugged and high-fived one another repeatedly and truly took in the moment of elation because of how outrageous this discovery was! I had found the ring approximately one foot away from the entrance to the fuel door and trunk lever housing entrance. After putting the endoscope in, I had to push it approximately 12 inches towards the driver seat underneath the carpeting along the metal flooring. Somehow, the piece of gold with its huge diamond inserted within it, traveled down into that housing and made its way through that narrow cavity until it came to rest amongst the cluttered debris field of miscellaneous items that had congregated under the seat.

Perhaps the impact that took place in the accident caused the diamond ring to travel farther back towards the driver seat underneath the carpet until it finally could not travel anymore because of all the other objects that got wedged together in that space. It was absolutely incredible! And even more crazy that I found this ring in the same general location as the one I found just a month and a half earlier, but in a Subaru Outback in Alexandria, Virginia! The odds of this happening were completely impossible! Yet, with my experience with ring finding, the stories get more bizarre the longer you do these types of searches!

After Adam and I had finally settled down a bit from our surreal pre-victory celebration, my next step was to use a special hook at the end of the endoscope in order for me to capture the target and set the ring free from that narrow cavity underneath the carpeting. This was not a procedure that allowed me in any way to simply put my hand or fingers into that long thin space. There was no way to access this particular chamber except to use this particular tool at the end of the video camera snake in order for me to carefully grab a hold of the gold and slowly bring it out from the far back section underneath the carpet.

After a few minutes of working the snake and the newly screwed-in hook tool at the end of it, I am proud to say that I was finally able to successfully extract the amazing gold diamond ring from within the vehicle’s strange hidden chamber! As the piece of jewelry made its way into the natural light from within the dark tunnel underneath the plastic housing, I just marveled at the beauty of that extremely handsome ring! Wow, it was really something special to look at! The diamond was beyond impressive in size, color and clarity! What was more special to me was the fact that I was holding what once was worn and owned by a man who truly loved Adam, his son, so very much!

At that moment, I found myself to be in more of a state of shock (as I held the precious gold) than the initial second when I identified the target with the endoscope! Here I was, holding the very ring that I thought had the most minimal chance of being recovered based on all of the facts mentioned above! I was so proud to be the very one to hand the ring to its rightful owner – the son who had inherited this sentimental treasure from his beloved daddy after he had regretfully passed away the year earlier!

Adam still could not believe what was happening! As I handed him the ring he just broke down with uncontrollable emotion and thanked me profusely for what I had just done for him! Right there at that very spot in the body shop parking lot (where all of those destroyed automobiles surrounded Adam’s mangled up vehicle) we rejoiced before the Lord and together we thanked God for answering the prayer that we had lifted up to Him earlier on! It was as if that place where we gave glory to the Lord together became almost like holy ground to us! The tragic events that had taken place prior to me arriving were finally being put to rest. That chapter was done and gone forever! The weight of sadness and even the suspicions that had haunted Adam for so very long no longer had power over his mind and heart and the man could now be free to move his life forward again! Furthermore, Adam’s destroyed Camry could finally be given up to the boneyard and eventually be taken to the crusher – and thankfully without Adam’s beloved heirloom that was once lost within its members! It was saved just in the nick of time!

Adam burst out with words of pure thankfulness and gratitude, “Brian, I can’t thank you enough! What you just did is unbelievable! You are the man! I told you that I had this feeling that if anybody could do it, you would be the one! You were my last hope and you did it and delivered my ring back to me! I’ll never forget this man!”

I thanked Adam for his kind words and confidence that he had in me and I told him that this truly was not only one of the craziest recovery stories that I had ever experienced, but that I believed God Himself had His hand in all of this! There was only a very tiny possibility that that ring was still in the vehicle (knowing how much of the car had already been razed). After what had been done to the dashboard and all of the other places that were searched by the two of us where we came up empty handed – and then to find it basically in the same spot that I had found the last in-vehicle ring…you just can’t make this kind of story up! You have to believe that there was some type of divine intervention here! The whole story was truly incredible!

Once we finished some more hugging and high-fiving, Adam took a victory walk into the body shop office to show the staff what I had just pulled from the vehicle! They too were in unbelief and completely shocked at what they were looking at on Adam’s finger! Many of them were witnesses, watching Adam cut holes and demolish what was left of his poor vehicle as he desperately searched to find his family treasure! The body shop staff also knew that the Camry would be removed from the lot in the next day or two, so for me to have actually recovered the jewel from the wreckage just prior to “dooms day” for that Toyota was pretty amazing to them! They couldn’t believe the outcome just as much as the two of us could not fully process the reality of what had just taken place! Knowing that the keepsake had actually been hiding in the vehicle all along, just the likelihood that the family heirloom would be discovered in that short window of time was still incomprehensible! The staff admitted to me that none of them had any confidence in believing that Adam would ever see that ring again and most of them doubted that the ring was even in the car at all! I again gave credit to my God for blessing the search and showing favor on Adam’s life!

When I eventually left the search site following our final goodbyes to one another, in some way we both felt bonded forever in a certain sense because of what we both experienced together. It was just one of those stories that was so amazing, so emotional, so exciting for the two of us that unless you were there in person and went through those special moments with us, it would be very hard to understand what we took away from that body shop parking lot that winter afternoon! Living that very moment when I knew for certain that I had identified the ring and then our reactions that followed (knowing that I had indeed discovered the lost family jewel), no one can ever take away that special memory and the endless feelings of elation that rushed through the two of us! Little could ever top that special time together!

Since that cold wintry day in Winchester, Virginia when I was able to recover and return that very sentimental gold diamond ring back to Adam’s finger, the two of us have enjoyed numerous talks on the phone together. Every so often we recount the story of finding Adam’s father’s ring in that wrecked Camry and we still agree without doubt…God truly favored us that day and has continuously reminded us thereafter of His unconditional love through what He did for Adam and for myself that one afternoon! I will never forget it…ever!

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Metal Detecting Lost Diamond Stud Earring… Found on Brookeville, Maryland Horse Farm

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Claire’s Most Beautiful 1.33 Carat Diamond Stud Earring Recovered by Member of THE RING FINDERS, Brian Rudolph on Brookeville, Maryland Horse Farm

Claire and Her Friend Celebrate the Successful Return of the Lost 14 Karat White Gold 1.33 Carat Diamond Stud Earring that Metal Detectorist Brian Rudolph Recovered

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I received a call from a woman named Claire who lost her 14 karat white gold 1.33 carat diamond stud earring that she received many years earlier from her husband as a 25th wedding anniversary. She was playing with her little granddaughter at a horse farm located in Brookeville, Maryland. During her visit to her friend’s equestrian property, Claire took some time to entertain her granddaughter by rolling down a hill in one of the fenced in pens. There was a lot of grass and it was the perfect spot to have some fun with the little one. Just as she was rolling down one particular area of the hill, Claire and her granddaughter had some kind of collision or had brushed into each in some way. She didn’t think much of it until a little bit later on, just as Claire was about to leave that section of the property, she realized that her earring was no longer on her earlobe. She was quite upset about the loss of such a sentimental gift from her husband that had represented a quarter of a century of bliss between the two of them. She wanted so very badly to get this priceless jewel back on her ear.

Upon recounting Claire’s time playing on that hill she believed that she may had lost her stud earring at the time of impact with her granddaughter. Claire marked that spot and her husband would end up renting a metal detector to attempt a recovery of the white gold diamond stud.

Believe it or not, after a long time of searching in the area that Claire had marked as the most potential spot where the earring may had come off of her, Claire’s husband was able to find the white gold backing that belonged to the earring. Just finding that one piece was a tremendous victory thus far because they could now confirm at least one location as to where the 1.33 carat diamond could have ended up. Claire’s spouse was so encouraged by his ability to find the backing that he continued to search for the jewel for at least a couple of more hours. Unfortunately, his continued efforts led to no avail. Eventually, he had to return the metal detector to the rental shop and Claire was extremely disappointed that they could not recover the lost keepsake.

When Claire contacted me, she explained that she diligently searched online for some type of answer to her problem regarding the lost earring. She wasn’t about to give up, and the moment she saw online an article about the elite international directory of metal detectorists called THE RING FINDERS. After reading some testimonials about some of my successful recoveries, she felt some hope of light at the end of that dark disappointing tunnel. The exciting part was that through the directory she was able to find me, Brian Rudolph, a metal detecting specialist who serves the Brookeville, Maryland area. Though Claire and her husband lived in Washington DC, she asked if I could meet her out on the horse farm to help the couple with the recovery of her 25th anniversary gift. I told her I was more than happy to attempt a search and recovery of the stud earring. I explained to her that I have certain techniques that I use to be quite successful with being able to return such small pieces of metal back to their rightful owners! She was thrilled to hear that I had such experience and couldn’t wait to meet me out on the horse farm the following day.

When I first arrived at the equestrian estate, I met up with the owner of the property and then Claire soon arrived shortly after. I began asking my client all kinds of questions regarding the possibility that perhaps she could have lost the earring somewhere else other than the place where the backing had been found. There are many instances where the backing comes off but the earring stays on the lobe for a much longer duration of time. Then, in that particular situation, it becomes nearly impossible to isolate the area where the stud dropped to the ground. The positive thing about this particular story was that Claire realized that the stud earring was missing from her ear sometime before she left that particular pen. This greatly encouraged me that her chances were much better at recovering the item knowing that I could simply grid search just that section of grass where she was playing with her granddaughter!

As we walked into the fenced in area where the earring disappeared, Claire gave me specific details as to where she was rolling down the hill with her beloved family member. There was a metal stake that was put in the ground exactly where the backing was discovered and so I had a very good reference point as to where the collision took place that may had caused the stud to fall out close by to where the backing was found.

Once I gathered up all of the facts that I needed, I returned to my car to retrieve some grid line cones along with my metal detector and other gear that would be necessary to utilize in my attempt to recover the earring. The first step that I took in this investigation that I was dealing with was to use my metal detector to scan over the basic section of territory where the backing was discovered. The reason that Claire’s husband was able to detect the backing was because there was more gold on that piece of the earring than what was on the stud setting itself. This is very common because the backing has more solid mass than the earring which has just the post and the cage holding the diamond.

During my time of scanning the grass in just the area where it was most likely that the earring fell off of Claire’s ear, I did not get any signals indicating that a small piece of metal was hiding in that region. Earlier on (as I failed to convey in this article) I tested Claire’s other diamond earring that matched the one that was missing just so I knew if it was possible to detect the one that was in the grass. A lot of times there is so little metal on the cage that it becomes impossible to pick up the jewel with even the finest of machines. In this particular case, there was enough white gold for me to effectively find the earring, but it all depended upon the angle in which it was lying, and whether or not it was pushed down into the dirt at the time of the initial first search.

After analyzing a good portion of property around the area where the backing was found I decided to put my detector aside for a while as I planned to get down on my hands and knees and begin searching the very spot where the backing was found with my handheld detector. This small device is called a pinpointer because it zeros-in on small to large targets when placed very close to where the metallic object is located. Once I removed the stake that marked where the backing was found, my hope was that the pinpointer would pick up the stud earring if I moved the device slowly and methodically against the ground until it hopefully would hit the white gold setting of the earring. To my biggest surprise, moments after I began this particular technique, the handheld detector sounded off and vibrated as I moved it over something that was made out of a small piece of metal! Once I identified the exact place where the hidden object rested below the many blades of grass before me, I began clearing the plant life so that I could eyeball what exactly I had picked up on my device. Just then, as I finished clearing some more of the grass out of the way, my eyes beheld the most beautiful diamond stud earring! It was right there lying on top of the dirt below all of the surrounding blades of green! I could not believe that I had just found the stud so very quickly! It was such an exhilarating experience because these little pieces of jewelry are not easily recoverable! It was almost surreal what was happening at that moment! Claire was not present when I discovered her anniversary treasure because she had gone inside the main house with her friend to indulge in a cup of coffee. Therefore, I was the only one out there on that lovely equestrian hill carrying within me the exciting secret that Claire would be getting her cherished little treasure back on her ear soon enough! It truly was a thrilling moment in time for me to recover something so small and yet so priceless! After getting up off of the terrain, I left everything just where it all was when I found the earring and then called Claire out to do the great reveal!

I would not be able to describe in this article just how excited and touched Claire was when I surprised her with her beautiful diamond earring! She too could not believe that I was able to recover this item from the lawn! In addition, she was blown away by how quickly I was able to accomplish this task and her gratitude for my services was way off the charts! My elated client could not stop thanking me and applauding my excellent work out there on that little hill! I too applauded the initial work that she and her husband did to mark the location of where the backing was found! I also commended Claire’s husband on his sleuth-filled efforts in finding the first piece of metal. All together it was a successful team effort and I will never forget how special it was to celebrate the return of this very sentimental piece of jewelry with Claire and her friend who owned the horse farm! The three of us had the best time celebrating and enjoying that surreal moment together! I’m pretty sure that with all of the excitement from my successful recovery that day, Claire was quite happy that she found THE RING FINDERS online and reached out to me to help her with this fantastic search project! Once again, another wonderful item recovery is documented into the annals of ring finding stories!

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How to Metal Detect a Lost Gold Diamond Wedding Band in Springfield, Virginia Park…Found

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Kelly’s Beloved 14 Karat White Gold Wedding Band With Surrounding Diamonds Recovered by Member of THE RING FINDERS, Brian Rudolph

Dan and Kelly Rejoicing at the Amazing Search Results of the Return of Kelly’s Very Special Wedding Band!

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Ten plus years ago, Dan spent a lot of time picking out rings for his beloved future wife. He purchased the most special 14 karat white gold solitaire diamond engagement ring along with a 14 karat white gold wedding band with diamonds set around the band. He planned to pop the question to his girlfriend Kelly and present the first ring to her at that priceless moment. Before long, the couple was engaged and then the wedding day quickly came and went! Soon after, the children were born and life couldn’t be happier for this lovely family! Like with all love stories, there are some trials, disappointments and adversities that make their way into the timeline of life. On one particular cold day in Dan and Kelly’s Springfield, Virginia neighborhood, Kelly’s irreplaceable wedding ring went missing. She was devastated! Here is the story of what happened and what this couple did to successfully recover Kelly’s lost ring.

Kelly remembered having both her diamond wedding band and her diamond engagement ring on her finger when she left the house with her daughters that day. She vividly recalled taking a brief dog walk down a side street with the kids, said goodbye to Dan who drove off for a few hours while the group was taking their stroll together, returned back towards the house, grabbed the mail from the community mailbox, dropped off the mail inside their townhouse and then proceeded to walk a half block up the street to a neighborhood park to play.

Kelly was absolutely certain that she was wearing both rings when she left the house because her girls were ironically asking about her two special keepsakes. They were curious and wanted to play with them. Their mother explained to them that these pieces of jewelry were very special to her and were not to be played with.

All three ladies enjoyed their time at the park. First, they played on some jungle gym equipment that was located on the lower level of the recreational property. Next, Kelly walked up the hill and explored different places with the girls around the quaint and sweet environment. At some point, Kelly picked up some sticks to remove them from a certain area in the park and threw the dead branches into the woods. I believe the family then played tag and ran around the trees and tried to hide from each other. Then, the three started to entertain themselves with a time of “make believe” over by another area of the park. The girls constructed a makeshift fort over by a particular tree and Kelly helped her daughters gather some sticks and rocks to assist in building their imaginary creation.

After a couple of fun-filled hours had passed by, it was time for the three of them to return back to the house to prepare for the evening supper. At some point shortly after arriving back to the house, Kelly noticed that her wedding band was no longer on her finger! The engagement ring remained intact but her special marital keepsake was gone! Kelly was beyond devastated! She didn’t know what to do. She called Dan and let him know what had transpired and he too was uncertain as to how to handle the matter.

Upon Dan’s return home, after the children were tucked into bed, Kelly’s husband went to the park in search of the sentimental band. He used a flashlight to scan the ground but nothing turned up. The next day, the couple searched some more and before long, the whole community came out to assist in hunting for Kelly’s missing ring once word had gotten out about the matter on the neighborhood’s online forum. Perhaps twenty to thirty people took part in trying to solve this mystery and sadly, with all of their efforts to recover the diamond ring (using metal detectors and high lumen lights), it still was not found.

After three days of searching for the lost white gold band with diamonds, Dan and Kelly had exhausted all of their efforts. They were so afraid that someone had already picked up the ring because this little guy was nowhere to be found. It was at that point that Dan and Kelly were searching online for new ideas as to what to do next. That’s when THE RING FINDERS popped up! It’s an international directory of metal detecting specialists that are experts in finding lost rings! Immediately, Dan reached out to me, Brian Rudolph, and I was excited to take on the challenge!

The next day I arrived at Dan and Kelly’s house in Springfield, Virginia. I asked to be taken to all of the places where Kelly and the kids had walked and played several days earlier. Once we finished the tour (which started at their small lawn and ended up at the park) I had a good idea as to how to attack this project. Dan returned inside the house to do work while I gathered up my gear to begin the search.

The first step that I took in this investigation was to metal detect the front lawn of the house along with the sidewalk in front of their place and around the side of the townhouse which leads down the hill where the family had said goodbye to Dan that day. When there were no positive targets to check out, I metal detected around the community mailbox and unfortunately there was still no ring found.

The second leg of my adventure took place down the street at the park. I first started detecting on the wood chips where the playground equipment was located. I found a few miscellaneous coins and metal objects but not the item that I had hoped to find. Then, I detected the grass leading up the hill where Kelly had walked with the children, and still there was nothing found worth celebrating.

My third focus was to search all of the areas on top of the hill where Dan took me to show where Kelly had walked and hung out. I detected around the trees and did grid lines along the grass areas. There was a lot to cover. I scanned the spot where Kelly threw the sticks into the woods, and yet with all of those areas checked out, I still came away empty handed.

Next, I moved my way towards the section of the small park where Kelly and the kids made that little fort out of sticks. I kept hoping that that would be the place where Kelly must have lost her ring as she was using her hands a lot in that region of the park. Still, after working my way over and over again, back and forth, repeating my swings several times over, I wasn’t able to recover the sentimental jewelry.

After several hours of detecting since I began in front of Dan and Kelly’s house, I started to get emotionally weary and tired. I began to doubt that the band was lost in the park or that it may have been picked up by someone walking by days earlier. It was starting to get late in the afternoon by the time I finished searching most of the real estate at the top of the hill. At that point, there were only two sections left for me to metal detect. One area was perhaps about 30 feet from where the girls were building their fort. It was just on top of the hill under a tree but still a grassy spot to detect. I decided to scan the second possibility first which was a portion of hill that Dan had told me about. Kelly ran up and down that section of the hill with one of the girls during their fun time playing in the park.

Once I finished the six to eight grid line passes that I had made as I went up and down the hill with the detector, I could accurately count out yet another piece of property where the precious halo of diamonds was not lost. I now had only one more spot to check and that was that space at the top of the hill underneath the fairly large tree whose branches stretched over the hill a ways.

I began making a search pattern from the area where the make believe fort was built and moved in straight lines towards the grass that was located underneath the tree (approximately 15 feet away from the trunk). During my third pass, just as I detected a section of grass near the crest of the hill, I hit an unfamiliar target signal. It had been so long since I had gotten anything of interest and now finally a great signal was picked up in the headphones! I was truly hoping for the best as I knelt down to investigate what this object was. I knew it had to be a surface find just by the way the target sounded from my detector. Just as my handheld detector began to beep (indicating that the object was right under my portable machine) I immediately caught a glimpse as to what the item was that both detectors were picking up! It was a shiny silver-like color ring! I picked it up and immediately the diamonds began to talk to me with brilliance! I found it! I found the lost diamond wedding band that belonged to Kelly! She must have lost it while she was picking up sticks in that very spot as she was helping the girls build their imaginary fort! I couldn’t believe that I recovered the band knowing that I had almost no search area left in just a matter of minutes! I was so relieved and beyond excited to find the item that I was starting to think had not disappeared in the park or that someone had already picked it up and walked off with it! Frankly, I was in a state of shock because it had been so long since I started searching down the street and nothing had turned up until that very moment when my detector began to “sing” that beautiful melody that I love to hear when searching for lost rings!

Knowing that my search was finally over and that I could soon reveal the good news with Kelly and Dan, there was such a feeling of rejuvenation and restoration of energy that made its way through me! I couldn’t have felt happier for Kelly at that moment in time!

Early that evening, I surprised the family with the return of Kelly’s beloved wedding band and they were beyond blown away with happiness and disbelief! I even shared with them that there were people walking back-and-forth around the park during my search and they too had no luck finding the ring. Doubt began to set in with those people as well because it had been so many days and nobody could find the precious jewel (including myself for those many first tough hours out there)!

I was so excited for the couple and the children were also thrilled at what I was able to accomplish for Kelly. A special story that was connected with that wedding band was preserved for many years to come! Four grand smiles returned to the faces of that family and many thanks and words of appreciation continued to come my way in the days that followed.

Kelly and Dan still could not believe that what was lost out there in the park for so many days was actually found by one determined Ring Finder! They figured that with so many people looking for Kelly’s sentimental keepsake, it most likely was gone forever. Well, I was so proud to be that one to bring that special little treasure back home to Kelly’s ring finger! What a day that was!

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Lost Gold Diamond Family Heirloom Ring on Washington DC Lawn…Found by Ring Finder

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Ashley’s Sentimental Family Heirloom Ring Found by Member of THE RING FINDERS, Brian Rudolph

Ashley Excitedly Shows Off Her 14 Karat White and Yellow Gold with Diamonds Family Heirloom Ring Recovered by Brian Rudolph After Missing for Over a Week!

Brian Rudolph, Lost Item Recovery Specialist (Land, Water, Sand, Snow, Leaves, Houses & Vehicles) Will Find Your Lost Keepsake! Call ASAP (301) 466-8644!

I received a call from a young lady named Ashley who lost her 14 karat white and yellow gold diamond family heirloom ring. It had been missing outside for over a week. She and her girlfriend were hanging out on the Ashley’s side lawn of her Washington DC row house when her beloved keepsake that had been passed down the family line from her grandfather, grandmother, mother and then to Ashley went missing somewhere on the property. Ashley shared with me that she was playing with the ring in her hand when it slipped from between her fingers and landed somewhere on the ground. The two friends searched for hours on their hands and knees with much confidence that they would eventually find the precious jewel. However, as it turned out, all of their efforts led to no avail.

Sometime later that evening, as Ashley was searching online for answers to her problem, she came across the elite international directory of metal detecting specialists called THE RING FINDERS. She did not realize that such people existed and immediately contacted me to inquire about my services. I told Ashley that I am constantly doing search and recovery operations and that I was happy to help her in any way possible. She decided to go forward with my help the following day and I could not wait to try to solve this particular mystery.

The next morning, I headed out for Washington DC to an area called Mount Pleasant. Once I arrived, Ashley guided me over to a very narrow area of grass where she had been sitting on a café-type table with her friend over a week earlier. The section of real estate was so small that I couldn’t believe that Ashley had not already found her precious heirloom.

Next, my client reenacted the whole event and I personally couldn’t figure out why Ashley and her friend were unable to locate the piece of gold and diamonds. It seemed so simple. My best guess at the time was that the family heirloom must have flung in an unlikely direction, far enough away from the table so that the two ladies just didn’t look outside the box far enough. Yet, the young lady said that she didn’t remember doing anything with her hand that would cause the ring to be hurled off her finger. I did ask if the ladies had been drinking out at that table and Ashley did share openly that she had a couple of beers. Sometimes in dealing with ring searches like this one, two beers could make a difference depending on how the alcohol affected that particular individual. In some situations, the client remembers a certain amount of alcohol consumed when the actual amount was really a whole lot more. You never can tell and so when you can’t easily find the item, your mind starts to wonder how much of the story was left out due to being under the influence.

From the description that Ashley had given to me over the phone, I was perplexed by the whole mystery because this particular ring was fairly large in size. It would not have disappeared that easily. Ashley described the ring as being a men’s style band that was wide and heavy. It was mainly white gold with yellow gold accents along the rims and within its inner band. There were stars all around it with little diamonds in the middle of the stars. It really sounded quite lovely! This ring meant the world to Ashley and it broke her heart that something as simple as playing with it on her finger could end up causing the ring to disappear into seemingly thin air!

The Search Site Where Detectorist Rudolph Recovered the Precious Ring

After I got the rundown about where Ashley sat and what had taken place, I began my search using my metal detector throughout the area where Ashley and her friend were sitting. There was mainly dirt with no grass in that search zone where the table was located. Therefore, it was pretty obvious where the eye would not have missed it. I checked a garden bed behind where she was sitting as well as locations along the side of the house. Nothing of importance was found and as time marched on I was getting more curious as to what could have happened with this ring. One of the last places I detected was closer to the wrought iron fence that overlooked the side of the property towards the Washington DC street. I moved a metal frame out of the way (which was the base for a hammock) and again I swung my coil over the ground and yet still nothing turned up.

I tried everything to recover this ring and still there were no substantial targets found except a bottle cap or two, a pull tab from a can and some other miscellaneous items discovered during the search. I even got down on my hands and knees and used my handheld detector in several places in order to work around metal infested sections of the property where I could not use my regular machine. Once again, I came away with no ring.

When nothing turned up, I stopped my search for a moment and rethought the whole event. I recounted in my head what Ashley’s recollection was of what happened a week earlier.  When I couldn’t find the heirloom anywhere, I realized that perhaps I was thinking too far outside of the box of possibilities. I also adjusted my detector which may not have been set properly for this type of ring search. Also, I thought that perhaps it was possible that I had missed the ring right from under my nose when I had been detecting at the beginning of the search near where the table was situated. I then resumed the investigation with a fresh perspective and a focused attack plan.

My new strategy was to metal detect over and around the same patches of dirt where I had initially began my search. I started scanning the area about three feet away from where the table originally sat.  Almost immediately I hit a fairly good signal with the exception of a scratchy tone that made the target appear to be more iron based rather than a precious metal. I really didn’t think the object could have been the ring because I was looking for a surface find, not an item completely buried below the ground.

Though I was pretty certain that the target below was not what I was looking for, it truly got me curious as to what this object actually was and so I started to carefully dig the object up with my hand digger. Just as I brought the chunky piece of metal out of the ground, the mystery began to be unraveled little by little! I caught a glimpse of a smooth rounded shape, then I saw stars engraved into the side of the object. Next, I observed some sparkles coming from what appeared to be a men’s ring! Finally, as I cleared off the rest of the dirt from the silver-like halo, there before me was the very culprit that I had been searching for for the past hour or so! It had been completely buried in the ground! I concluded that because it was completely dark outside at the time of the ring’s disappearance, Ashley must have gotten up out of her chair and had accidentally stepped on the ring. This caused it to completely disappear beneath the soft dirt where the eye would not have had a chance to spot even a glimpse of the piece of metal! Ashley’s simple account of her fidgeting with the ring without any force to cause the ring to go very far from the table, perfectly matched up with where I actually found the heirloom!

It all made perfect sense once I extracted the handsome band from below the dirt! I then realized where my obstacles existed in dealing with finding this piece of jewelry. First, my detector was incorrectly set at the time. Secondly, the ring was buried on a particular angle which made it more difficult to accurately assess the iron-like scratchiness sound that I was hearing in my headphones coming from the target. Thirdly, I wasn’t anticipating the possibility that the ring could have been fully pushed down into the ground where no metal was exposed at all! I learned a valuable lesson (even as a seasoned metal detectorist). Though I have had several searches where the item was recently lost and then found below the earth due to a shoe or foot that had pushed the jewelry down into the ground, I have at least been able to still see a slight “halo” of the ring peeking through. This particular search was definitely a first for me!

I was so happy for Ashley and I couldn’t wait to do the reveal! When I surprised her I could see her countenance light up with an expression of happiness and also great relief! Her beloved family heirloom had returned to her finger once more and she was so grateful that I could help solve this simple but yet seemingly more complicated mystery!

I truly love what I do for people like Ashley and returning rings and other cherished items is such a fulfilling and thrilling experience for me every time!

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Metal Detecting Lost Platinum Wedding Band in Grass…Found at Arlington, Virginia Park

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Mark’s Beloved Platinum Wedding Band Recovered by Member of THE RING FINDERS Brian Rudolph at Arlington Virginia Park

Mark Excitedly Holding Up His Sentimental Keepsake After Detectorist Rudolph Returns the Wedding Ring to the Happy Owner!

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I received a call from a gentleman named Mark who had lost his wedding band at Fort C.F. Smith Park in Arlington, Virginia the night before he contacted me. He said he was with his wife Padma, their daughter, and some friends enjoying a dinner picnic on a blanket celebrating the Hindu festival of lights called Diwali. This is one of the major festivals celebrated by not only Hindus, but also Jains and Sikhs. The festival usually lasts five days and is celebrated during the Hindu lunisolar month Kartika.

Just as the family was about to leave the park, Mark realized that his beloved platinum wedding band was missing from his finger. It was ironic because he had been thinking earlier on during their social time on the blanket just how careful he needed to be with his ring because he noticed how loose it was. Unfortunately, during the next hour or so of searching in the dark with phone flashlights, neither Mark nor his wife Padma or any of the others with them could find the missing sentimental keepsake.

Mark and his wife left the park empty-handed and drove home with the plan of returning the next morning to continue their search. They also ordered a metal detector that would be arriving in the next day or two. If Mark could not find the band, he would return for a third visit with the detector in order to scan more of the grass.

Sometime that same night before the couple headed to bed, Mark decided that perhaps utilizing a professional metal detectorist in the Arlington, Virginia area would help better his chances for recovering the lost keepsake. That was about the time when Mark discovered the elite international metal detectorist directory called THE RING FINDERS. Like most, he was not aware that such a directory existed and this was his best opportunity to call upon an expert in the field of finding lost rings. I was contacted at that point and immediately we scheduled for me to conduct a search the following day.

As the sun was rising in the east the next morning, I started my drive to Fort C.F. Smith Park in Arlington, Virginia. I couldn’t wait to start searching for the platinum piece! Mark gave me information as to where he and his group were sitting on the grass. When I arrived, we had a video conference call so that the gentleman could guide me around and show me where they were parked, the places where his family walked and played and most importantly – the locations where everyone was picnicking.

Mark shared with me a few important details regarding not only where he moved about, but also the fact that he could have lost the ring while playing with his daughter. He put her on his back a few times and twirled her around on the grass. He also told me that he had collected the trash from the picnic area and placed the bags alongside the trash can because it was completely full with garbage. He was pretty certain that the bags would still be there in the morning when I arrived. Thankfully, Mark was correct – all of the trash that he had collected the night before was still in the bag resting beside the park’s garbage can.

Once I got completely oriented, I started metal detecting on and around the parking lot. I wanted to make sure that the most vulnerable areas where people could eyeball a ring would be scanned over first. When nothing turned up, I searched around the grass near where Mark and Padma parked their car. Next, I went through their bag of trash to make certain that the loose fitting band didn’t end up inside with the throwaways. Still, I did not find the cherished piece of jewelry.

After exhausting all of my efforts in the areas that I mentioned above, I was quite confident that unless the ring had ended up on the parking lot concrete and was picked up by someone, the wedding band most likely slipped off of Mark’s finger somewhere on the grassy area where they ate or played. That was my final section of the park that needed to be searched and most likely where the ring got lost.

So, I started my grid lines on the grass from the main park building that was set back a bit from the rest of the lawn, all the way over to a huge old tree that was located more to the center of the estate grounds. In minutes, I would be detecting over the exact spot where the group had been picnicking on their blanket.

During my first few grid line passes I did get a few decent targets to analyze, but nothing good enough to be a surface find. I kept at it until perhaps I was half way across my fifth grid line or so (approximately fifteen feet away from the giant tree), when all of a sudden I got the perfect signal popping on my machine! There was a certain skipping tone that sounded off in my headphones and I was quite certain that I had found what I had been commissioned to recover. I knelt down on the grass and with my handheld detector, I carefully scanned that section of grass where the target was first heard. Suddenly, there it was! Hiding under the many blades of grass, I discovered the shiny platinum wedding ring! There it was all along! Just feet from where Mark, Padma and their daughter hung out to celebrate Diwali with their friends, I discovered that very special, irreplaceable keepsake!

I could not have been more happy for Mark! It was such a gratifying experience to check out all of the possible places where the ring may have ended up, and then to find it in the last possible section of real estate in that park – it was exhilarating!

Because I was there at the park without my client, I set up another video conference with Mark and it was then that I had some fun surprising him with the fantastic news! He could not have been more happy to find out that I was able to successfully recover the lost ring! He said that he was additionally excited to return the metal detector that was expected to arrive sometime in the early afternoon that same day!

When I finished up on the phone with Mark, I packed up my gear and headed towards my vehicle. The whole way back to Maryland was just a wonderful experience reflecting on how successful the morning had ended up! I believe it was later that day that I had the opportunity of personally returning the ring to Mark. We shook hands, took some pictures together and then parted ways once and for all. He could not stop thanking me and was so appreciative of what I was able to accomplish at the park! My client was beyond grateful that I was able to preserve such a special story that was reflective of that very moment when Padma placed the platinum “halo” upon her husband-to-be’s finger on their very special wedding day many years earlier!

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Lost Gold Diamond Stud Earring in Annapolis, Maryland…Found

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Anne’s Beautiful 1 Carat Diamond Stud Earring Found by THE RING FINDER’S Member Brian Rudolph

Anne, Bill and Stella Celebrating the Recovery of Anne’s Beloved Sentimental Keepsake!

Brian Rudolph, Lost Item Recovery Specialist (Land, Water, Sand, Snow, Leaves, Houses & Vehicles) Will Find Your Lost Keepsake! Call ASAP (301) 466-8644!

I received a text from a woman named Anne who I had the pleasure of finding 2 lost rings for her at the beach in Ocean City, Maryland about a year and a half earlier.
Anne and her husband Bill were in the process of moving from their temporary home to their newly built place (which was in its final stage of being completed). Because there were contractors still working in the house, Anne and Bill decided it would be wise to secure their valuables over at the rental home until the work at their new home was completed.

Bill bundled up a bunch of jewelry and other things and searched for some kind of container to place the valuables in during the transport of the items. Because there was so little in the new house, the only thing Bill could find to place the jewelry in was their daughter’s wooden dollhouse that was in her bedroom.

The dollhouse had a number of doors, one on each side of the wooden box. Each door had a separate key assigned to it. Bill opened up some of the doors and locked the family’s jewels inside those compartments (at least Bill thought all of the doors were secured). Along with the dollhouse, Anne’s husband grabbed several other necessities, including a cooler. Then, he walked his two armfuls of stuff to his truck and then returned inside the freshly painted new home to grab some more important items to take to the temporary Annapolis, Maryland rental house.

After Bill arrived back at the rental house with the truck load of things, he emptied the vehicle and laid all of the cargo on the living room floor as well as on top of a coffee table next to the sofa. Sometime later that day, Anne went to retrieve the contents from the dollhouse where all of the keepsakes were placed. She accounted for everything except one very special piece of jewelry – a 14 karat white gold 1 carat diamond stud earring which her aunt gifted her with some years back. There was only one earring in the dollhouse! The matching one had completely disappeared!

Anne was very concerned as to what had happened to the earring and she looked everywhere on the floor of the house as well as in the truck with the hope of finding the little guy.  Again, she returned back to the dollhouse where she searched inside the compartments one more time to see if maybe the jewelry had ended up in a crack or crevice somewhere in the wood of the toy. Unfortunately, all of her efforts led to no avail. The stud could not be recovered.

Anne went to Bill and shared that the earring was nowhere to be found and that’s when her husband began searching everywhere including the new house just in case it fell out of the dollhouse during transport. He had remembered that he was holding a lot of things in his hands and the dollhouse was tipped on an angle. Therefore, he thought that maybe the earring could have fallen out of the box if perhaps one of the doors was not completely locked. He wasn’t sure.

Next, Bill got out his metal detector (which his wife bought for him over the holidays the year before all because he was inspired by my recovery work when I rescued Anne’s two rings at the beach) and tried to find the diamond over by the new house. He searched all along the front path, as well as near the entrance of the rental house, but sadly, he too came up empty-handed.

It was at that point that the couple did some thinking and they remembered how I had helped the family recover the two missing rings in Ocean City, Maryland sometime back. They wondered if I could assist them once again with solving the mystery as to where this family heirloom had disappeared to since I was so successful during their initial call for help. I spoke with the couple on the phone and I shared with them how delighted I was to help them with this new project.

The next morning I headed out to Annapolis, Maryland to meet up with Bill in the driveway of his rental house. I first wanted to search the dollhouse, the truck, the front walkway and the living room of the rental. If I could not find the earring in any of these places, I would head over to the new property and metal detect the pathway leading up to the house.

It was wonderful to see Bill again. The last time I saw him was on the hot sand as he was taking in the sun rays on the beautiful Ocean City, Maryland beach! Once we caught up with what was going on in each of our lives, I asked Bill if I could first inspect the dollhouse. He went into his place and returned with the wooden box. He showed me how he locked the jewelry up inside the compartments, as well as the particular open door that he wasn’t sure if it had ever been fully locked or not.

I took out my endoscope (which is a long snake-like electronic device that has a video lens at the end of it) so I could get an idea as to whether or not there was any open spaces within the dollhouse where the earring may have ended up in. I did see one particular object that was in a gap in one of the compartments, but I could not conclude that the item was in fact a stud diamond earring. When I was convinced enough that the heirloom was nowhere inside the dollhouse, I moved to the next search area which was the truck.

Once I had access to the vehicle, I placed my endoscope in every corner and crevice of the truck, but the diamond did not show up anywhere. I made sure that I looked in the car seat as well as inside the backseats but still I came up with nothing. I was confident at that point that I had not missed the piece of jewelry inside the truck.

My next targeted area would be the grass located near the driveway, as well as detecting along the front path leading to the front door of the house. I got out my metal detector and began searching all of those areas until I concluded that the white gold stud was not in that vicinity, as well.

After I put my metal detector away, I had no other choice but to search the living room of the rental property. I thought, ‘Perhaps the diamond fell out of the dollhouse and landed somewhere on the wood floor or the carpeted area inside the place.’ I got my headlamp out again, along with my endoscope and other gear, and then followed Bill into his temporary home where he led me into the living room just to the left of the foyer.

I was really hoping that I would find the missing diamond stud earring on the floor, around the couch or under its cushions, but I kept striking out! I even looked inside blankets and other items that were taken from the new house over to the rental and everything checked out clean.

This was about the time when I called over to Bill (who was in the other room) in order to do some more brainstorming together. I asked him some more questions and I just was not satisfied yet with leaving the rental property to go over to the new house to start searching the grounds. Something just did not add up with this whole situation.

Once I got all of the answers that I needed from Bill, I told him that I wanted to re-examine the dollhouse once more. Half jokingly he said to me, “Well, if you think there is still a slight chance that the earring is in the dollhouse, I will be happy to run over it with my truck so you can check it out”. I laughed and told the helpful fellow that there was no need for that and I would re-inspect the box over by the couch. We laughed.

Stella, the couple’s firstborn child who I had met previously on the beach a year and a half earlier, made her appearance as she came down the stairs to greet me. I almost didn’t recognize her with how much she grew. The cutie wanted to hang out with me and search for the missing item along side her old beach buddy. You see, when I was in Ocean City, Maryland searching for the two missing rings in the sand, I had Stella join me in the search and I allowed her to take each ring that I recovered over to her mom every time I found one. We both had a lot of fun that day on the beach!

Once I was handed the dollhouse from Bill, I placed it on top of the coffee table right in front of the couch where Stella sat with me and I began to check it out once more. First, I opened up the doors and did a quick visual search just to see if I could have missed any places in the slits that were in each section of the toy. I couldn’t spot anything loose in any of those gaps so I used my endoscope to take another close look internally where the slits exposed some kind wiring beneath the wood structure. It was during that part of my investigation that the endoscope picked up the same object that was the mysterious piece that I had detected with the scope when I first looked in the slits outside by the truck. It did not look like a diamond or even the backing of an earring attached to the post. But it did have some silver-like resemblances to what part of an earring looked like. That certainly got me a bit more curious than my initial look-over.

Whatever that particular object was that was seemingly jammed in that very small section of the dollhouse clearly could not be identified with my endoscope. Nor would I be able to use any kind of tool to pry the mystery object from the slit where my device came across it. The item was jammed too far into the open space and the path that I was dealing with was way too narrow to use my endoscope along with some kind of tweezers to extract the target. So, as Stella was still knelt down beside me patiently waiting to see some magical results, I decided to take a very primitive approach in trying to discover what that mystery item was. I first closed up all of the doors and locked them all up with the individual keys that were assigned to each of the compartments. Next, I took my fist like it was some kind of human hammer and knocked it against the wooden toy several times. I hoped that the created vibrations would knock the target loose from within the narrow space and perhaps cause the mystery object to finally be revealed. I then reopened the door that corresponded with the small gap that I had been investigating and just as I swung the little dollhouse door back to its open position, I beheld before me most unexpected surprise! Lying on the floor of that little hidden compartment was one of the most beautiful white gold and diamond stud earrings I had ever seen! I found it! The earring was in the dollhouse the entire time! It had been wedged so deep inside the vertical slit assigned to that one compartment that neither the naked eye or even the endoscope could track and identify what that mysterious object was! All it took was a good smack upside the head of that cute wooden dollhouse to loosen the piece of jewelry from that chamber and reveal the special little guy to my very own eyes! I couldn’t believe it! I was so happy to have recovered the priceless heirloom from the toy!

Stella’s Dollhouse Where Item Recovery Specialist Rudolph Discovered the 14 Karat White Gold 1 Carat Diamond Stud Earring that Had Mysteriously Gone Missing!

Because I wanted to make it a surprise, I carefully removed the earring from the compartment without Stella noticing the jewel. Then, I called Bill over and did the great reveal! His wife Anne was upstairs the whole time taking care of her newborn baby while the search had been going on downstairs. So, unfortunately I was not able to include Anne in the big surprise. However, Bill’s incredible over-the-top reaction along with Stella’s shock and excitement was so amazing that it truly compensated for his other half’s absence at the grand reveal!

Next, the two family members rushed upstairs to share the good news with Anne! Moments later, the young lady came downstairs with her beautiful new born baby and thanked me over and over again for such a successful recovery of her cherished family heirloom! I was so happy for her own happiness and relief which she was experiencing at that moment! The whole house lit up with much joy and excitement!

As it turned out, the earring had never left the dollhouse from the initial moment when Bill placed all the jewelry inside that particular compartment! It had been in there the entire time! However, with all of the shaking and flipping, the little guy got stuck inside one of the slits and became trapped in such a way that no tool could help identify it! It was after I checked all of the areas where it could possibly have dropped (other than searching the front path at the new house where I was going to go next) that I began to get bothered by the fact that I never did identify what that silver-like object was when I first inspected the box. I felt pressed to re-check the dollhouse once more just to make certain that I wasn’t missing it! And boy am I glad that I did!

What a wonderful recovery and a terrific search story that will live on in this beloved family for years to come! Not only did I recover two rings for them a year and a half earlier, but in meeting up with the family once again I was able to find a third item that was also so very precious to Anne as was her diamond wedding band and engagement ring!

I drove away from their rental home feeling so overjoyed with excitement for this family’s new found happiness! As I made my way back home, I continued to give thanks to God for helping me assist these very special people find their extremely special and precious keepsake! What an incredible m time that was! What a fantastic mystery I solved!

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Lost Gold and Diamond Engagement Ring in Olney, Maryland…Found by Ring Finder

  • from Washington (District of Columbia, United States)

Lauren’s Beautiful Diamond Engagement Ring Recovered by Member of THE RING FINDERS, Brian Rudolph!

Lauren Happily Holding Two Prized Possessions – Her Beautiful Sentimental Keepsake and Her Treasured Mother Who Sheds Tears of Joy Just Minutes After Ring Finder, Brian Rudolph of Maryland Recovers Her Daughter’s Lost Ring!

Brian Rudolph, Lost Item Recovery Specialist (Land, Water, Sand, Snow, Leaves, Houses & Vehicles) Will Find Your Lost Keepsake! Call ASAP (301) 466-8644!

I received a call from a young lady named Lauren who was deeply distressed about losing her 14 karat white gold and diamond engagement ring. There was a 1 carat diamond in the center encircled by diamonds around it and additional rows of diamonds that were set down each side of the band. Lauren was in the kitchen preparing a marinated chicken dish for the evening supper when she decided to take off all three of her rings and place them in her pajama pants pocket for safe keeping. Included in the bunch of jewelry was: the engagement ring, wedding band and a miscellaneous special ring that Lauren liked to wear.

After the meal was prepared for cooking, the young lady went out the front door of her Olney, Maryland home to take her dog out for a quick walk around the front lawn. About fifteen minutes later, Lauren returned inside the house and at some point she remembered that she had not retrieved her rings to place them back on her fingers. When she pulled out the group of gold bands, only two out of three rings were present! The engagement ring was missing! Lauren panicked and immediately began searching for the lost treasure. She headed back outside and looked everywhere for the precious keepsake. Unfortunately, it didn’t turn up in any of the places where she retraced her steps.

When Lauren initially couldn’t find her beloved diamond engagement ring, she still wouldn’t stop her efforts to try to recover the sentimental piece. First, she ordered a metal detector that would arrive the next day. Then, Lauren went out with a flashlight in the middle of the night and scanned the yard and front patio for the little one, hoping to see a sparkle somewhere out there on the ground. When that didn’t work, the desperate wife returned into the house and checked the trash to see if somehow the ring ended up in the garbage can with all of the other throwaways. Still, one of Lauren’s most treasured possessions was still not found.

The next day, the metal detector arrived and Lauren and her husband Jordon immediately got to work in assembling the machine and began detecting the lawn as best as they could. Lauren mentioned to me later on that they had no idea how to calibrate the detector in order to pick up the particular type of metal that they were looking for. The reason why they weren’t sure if they were using the detector correctly was because they tested another ring of Lauren’s and it did not register on the metal detector’s screen. It was then that they realized that they needed to contact a professional who was familiar with this type of search and who would be an expert in using metal detecting equipment.

The couple looked online and found the elite international metal detectorist directory called THE RING FINDERS. Lauren and Jordan were pleasantly surprised to find out that I, Brian Rudolph, provided metal detecting services in Olney, Maryland! Moments later I received the call requesting my assistance!

Between the time that Lauren started searching for her beloved engagement ring until I received a call from her asking me for help, she and her husband Jordon had searched for the piece of jewelry for over 4 hours! They were completely done with trying to find the ring on their own. Also, physically and emotionally, this was a very difficult time for the two of them. Lauren shared with me that Jordan was suffering from a major car accident that took place just days before the ring went missing. He was driving down a street and as he was crossing a four-way intersection, someone went through a red light and smashed their vehicle directly into Jordan’s car. His pelvis was fractured in multiple places causing unbearable suffering and despair. Their vehicle was destroyed and the paperwork was completely out of control in dealing with the insurance companies and attorneys that had to get involved in the process. Losing this irreplaceable diamond ring was just another brick in the wall of disappointment and sadness for the tested couple.

Once I heard all of the facts regarding the disappearance of the engagement ring and all of the hardship and adversities that this couple had been going through in the past week, I was determined to recover Lauren‘s lost ring in order to bring at least a little bit of relief back to their household. The young lady was extremely appreciative of my passion to help as well being able to come over the very next day.

On the day of the search, I arrived sometime in the late afternoon hours. I couldn’t wait to help this family recover Lauren’s lost ring. Once I greeted the young lady in despair, she showed me where she walked the dog towards the front of the home. Then, Lauren took me around the porch and over to the right side of the driveway (facing towards the street). I followed her over to the mailbox where she said she had retrieved some mail prior to returning back inside the house with her dog. I was hoping that the ring did not end up in the street when she had opened up the mailbox. However, I felt much better when I asked her if she reached into her pocket to pull out her cell phone near the mailbox and she believed that she did not reach for the device at that time.

Once we covered all of the territory where Lauren had moved around outside, I returned to the car to retrieve my metal detecting gear to begin the search. I first started scanning the lawn just in front of the house porch. This was the area where the dog roamed around and Lauren thought that maybe she had taken her phone out of her pocket at that moment which perhaps caused the engagement ring to pop out of her pajamas. This was not the only place that she could have taken out her phone, but it was the first place that she stood when she came out of the front door with the dog.

I knew exactly what numbers I was looking for on my detecting machine. I am very familiar with finding lost 14 karat white gold engagement rings. Her ring size was a tiny size 4, so therefore there was not a lot of metal to hunt for. Yet, I knew I could find it if it was still out there on the property.

When I concluded that the ring was not on the front lawn nearest to the porch, I moved my way along the concrete slab of the porch and checked under the bushes to see if maybe the ring had bounced over to the side where it could no longer be easily seen. I also looked around the section of the porch where Lauren had been working on a lovely furniture restoration project. However, there was still no sign of the precious “symbol of love”.

My last and final section of search area was located to the right of the driveway (if you are facing away from the house) where Lauren had walked as she headed to the mailbox with the dog. I was getting concerned that the ring had been lost in the house (knowing that I had such a little strip of grass remaining to check out). I asked myself ‘What would be the odds that I would find the ring right here in this little area where the grass was such a narrow strip and that the grass was not even very high enough to help conceal Lauren’s beautiful piece of jewelry from the human eye?’ Though I was wondering all of these things, I have learned as a ring finder that it’s very common to find the lost treasure even at the “11:59 position on the clock”!

I began to metal detect the last section of grass that was adjacent to the concrete driveway. Just as I got about half way down the narrow strip, I hit a really good signal. Immediately, I knelt down on the ground to investigate the potential target. Next, I took out my handheld detector from a side holster and checked out the spot where I was getting that particular signal on my machine. Just as the pinpointer device started beeping, my eyes zeroed in on a shiny object resting below the grass line, and there it was – Lauren’s beautiful diamond covered engagement ring! I found it! It was hiding right there in that little section of grass, perhaps less than six inches from the driveway! All at one time I felt such great elation and relief for Lauren and Jordon! At least one nightmare was finally over!

Once I secured the diamond ring by placing it deep inside one of my pockets, I requested for Lauren to come outside so I could do the ring reveal. Luckily, she brought her mother with her (she had recently flown into town to help take care of the couple’s child and assist in caring for Jordon while he was recovering from his injuries) so therefore I got to see both of their reactions when I surprised Lauren with the ring! The two of them burst into tears at the sight of that gorgeous 14 karat white gold band full of diamonds! It was a beautiful sight that I will never forget!

This search ended with many smiles and several hugs to go along with the celebratory words of thanks that I received! We also gave glory to the Lord who answered our prayer which we lifted up towards Heaven just prior to beginning the search. I could not have been more happy for Lauren and her family!  Even Jordan thanked me while he rested on his sofa in the living room just at the moment when I peeked in the front door to say goodbye to him! He really was encouraged by the outcome and it truly lifted his spirits while he was physically suffering.

As I drove away, I reflected on just how much I enjoy helping people like Lauren and Jordon find relief and restoration of happiness after experiencing adversities like the one Lauren and family had to so painfully endure! I so very much love what I do!

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How to Find a Lost Ring in Snow…Bel Air, Maryland

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Alexandra’s Sterling Silver Promise Ring that Tommy Blessed His Love With Just Two Weeks Before the Jewel Was Plowed Away With the Snow 100 Yards Down the Parking Lot!

Alexandra Beyond Excited for the Recovery of Her Beautiful Promise Ring!

Brian Rudolph, Lost Item Recovery Specialist (Land, Water, Sand, Snow, Leaves, Houses & Vehicles) Will Find Your Lost Keepsake! Call ASAP (301) 466-8644!

I received a call from a young lady named Alexandra who was really upset about the loss of her 925 sterling silver promise ring with CZ diamond stones. She had just received the beautiful “symbol of love“ from her boyfriend Tommy just weeks before the diamond covered band went missing somewhere in Alexandra’s work parking lot.

The story goes like this: Alexandra was employed at a car dealership. On her break, she went outside to the auto service parking lot during the beginning of a winter snowstorm. Alexandra wrote a little love note for her sweetheart in the snow and then took a photo of it so she could text it to her boyfriend Tommy. She returned inside and 10 minutes later she noticed that her ring was no longer on her finger. Immediately, she realized that she must have lost it outside when she was using her finger to write in the snow. Alexandra ran back outside and sadly she saw a snow plow truck hauling a “load of white” down the parking lot and dumping the contents wherever there were empty parking spaces along the way. It returned over and over again to pick up more snow and dispense the new loads as far as a hundred yards away from the main building! Desperately, she searched with faded hope that her friendship ring might still be hidden beneath the ice that remained on the black top. To no avail, Alexandra returned inside of the car dealership office without her sentimental piece of jewelry. Tommy’s girlfriend was crushed.

During the rest of Alexandra’s time at work, she looked online for an answer to her problem regarding how she could possibly recover her cherished lost keepsake. Eventually, she came across the elite international metal detectorist called THE RING FINDERS. After looking up the closest metal detecting service in the Bel Air, Maryland area, Alexandra contacted me, Brian Rudolph. She shared the backstory with me as to what took place and I quickly made plans to visit the search site later that night.

My client was extremely grateful that I was able to come out to the dealership that evening at such short notice. I knew how important it was to scan the lot that night. No one could be sure if the precious jewel was still somewhere in the middle of the parking lot under the snow or if it had already been concealed by feet of ice that was plowed away earlier that day.

As soon as I arrived (around 8:30pm), I met Alexandra and her boyfriend Tommy and then I was immediately shown where the young lady wrote her love note to Tommy in the snow. Then, I retrieved my metal detector and other night gear (including my high linens headlamp) from my vehicle and began the search. I checked out all of the key areas that we had talked about as being prime spots where the ring could have ended up. However, after searching every possible section of the lot, no ring was found except several dropped key rings from the dealership’s service department.

I detected not only the center areas of the black top (which was all covered with snow), but I also searched along the sides of the parking spaces where the plow pushed various “piles of white” into more shallow bunches. Still, I could not find the ring anywhere. Sometime around 11:30pm it was time to call it quits for the night.

I told the couple that it appeared that the ring most likely was pushed farther away into the larger piles of snow which would require some melting, as well as the use of shovels to cut through some of the remaining packed ice. I planned to return for another round of searching in the next week.

Almost every day that followed my initial visit to the dealership, I called Alexandra to get a report on how much snow had melted since the day before. It took longer than we thought for the thawing to really take effect, but after almost a week of waiting, I felt it was time to return to the site and continue the search process. This time around I brought hard core shovels that I use for cutting plugs in the earth when metal detecting buried items. Alexandra and Tommy met up with me once again and this time we began by chopping up as much snow as we could in order for me to metal detect all the way through the solid ice bergs!

I detected every possible location as far away as the very end of the parking lot – over a hundred yards from where Alexandra’s ring presumably slipped off her finger in the frigid outside temperatures. Unfortunately again, the promise ring was still missing in action. After another 3 hours of shoveling, cutting and detecting, there was little left for me to do that day. I would have to return a third time once the giant piles of remaining snow had melted even more.

I assured the couple that it was just a matter of time before the snow would melt enough to either allow for me to detect the final foot or so of snow (there were piles that were up to five feet high) or the ring would finally reveal itself on top of one of the bergs after a couple of warm and sunny days move through the Bel Air area. Since Alexandra worked right near where we hoped the ring was still hiding, I encouraged the young lady to continue visiting the snow piles and carefully look at the top of each mound to see if the jewel might one day peek its beautiful halo out of one of those “natural freezers”.

Well, as it turned out, during the next week, Alexandra would give me continuous updates as to how the snow was melting in three key piles out on the parking lot. I was ready and willing to travel the hour long drive to resume the detecting but the snow was still way too high to make the trip worthwhile. Therefore, I told Alexandra over and over again to continue walking to the piles and carefully inspect to see if the ring made its appearance through all of the ice. Each time she checked there was still nothing positive to report back to me.

After a couple more days had passed, a break in this case finally came to Bel Air! An unusual warm front made its way through Maryland and I knew that with some extreme melting that would soon take place, our chances of eyeballing the ring or successfully detecting the special keepsake was most likely going to happen! And it did!

Look Carefully and You Will See the Ring!

At Last Alexandra’s Lost Promise Ring Reappears from Beneath the Snow Plowed Mountain of Ice!

Early one the morning, just hours before I was going to be making my third trip to the search site, I received a call from Alexandra. She found her precious promise ring! I was beyond elated for her! It turned out that Alexandra did her 100 yard routine walk down to the end of the long dealership’s parking lot to look over the snow plowed piles once again. As she scanned the 3 foot mountain of ice, there it was – Alexandra’s very special love gift from Tommy! She saw it right there on the very top of the icy plateau, so patiently waiting to be discovered!

The young lady was so very excited! Over and over again Alexandra kept saying, “You were right! You were right! I still can’t believe it! Brian, you said to keep giving it time and it will eventually be found! You never thought someone had picked it up, and you really believed it was still buried in one of these huge piles!” I smiled brilliantly on the other end of the phone as I responded with a bashful acknowledgment of thanks to the young ring finder! I was so very happy for her!

The nightmare was finally over! It took nearly 2 weeks to successfully close this case, but it sure was worth waiting for such elation and jubilation from my dear client Alexandra!

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