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Lost Wedding Band in Audi Car…Found by In-Vehicle Ring Recovery Specialist in Arnold, Maryland

  • from Washington (District of Columbia, United States)

Natalie’s Beautiful 14 Karat White Gold Diamond Wedding Band Sparkling Once Again After Being Found by In-Vehicle Item Recovery Specialist Brian Rudolph!

Natalie’s Beaming Smile Resonates Happiness All Across Her Arnold, Maryland Neighborhood After Learning that Ring Finder Brian Rudolph Recovered Her Lost Sentimental Wedding 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 Natalie in Arnold, Maryland (a suburb of Annapolis) who desperately needed my help to find a 14 karat white gold wedding band encircled with diamonds. She and her husband Carter scoured their Audi for several days hoping to find the precious keepsake, but all of their efforts unfortunately fell flat. Here is the backstory:

Four days prior to receiving the couple’s cry for help, Carter and Natalie went out on the town for a Saturday date night. On the way back home from dinner, Natalie was sitting in the front passenger seat casually talking with her husband while she “twiddled around” with her three rings. She was wearing her engagement ring and two wedding bands (yes, that’s right, two identical wedding bands that together add to the sparkle and “pop” effect on her finger). At some point during their commute, one of the matching wedding bands slipped off of Natalie’s hand and disappeared somewhere in the car. The distraught passenger heard an immediate noise as if the precious keepsake bounced off of a piece of plastic, so Natalie was confident that as soon as they parked she would be able to find the jewel.

Instead of waiting until the couple arrived home, Carter pulled over into a parking garage so that his wife could retrieve the band off of the carpet. There was only one problem – as soon as Natalie got out of the vehicle to search for the runaway ring, it was nowhere to be found! It was if it had disappeared into thin air! Over and over again the bewildered woman scanned the luxurious vehicle but continued to come away with no results. Then, Carter jumped into action and he too became perplexed as to what could have happened to this little fellow! The couple decided at that point to return back to their Arnold, Maryland house for the night and to continue their search the following day.

As I shared above, for the next several days Natalie and her husband Carter searched everywhere in their Audi hoping to finally make sense as to what could have possibly happened to Natalie’s beloved keepsake. The two of them tried everything to recover the lost wedding band, but unfortunately none of their efforts came to fruition.

Thinking that the little piece of jewelry must have slipped into a small crevice or crack under the seat, Carter got access to an endoscope and attempted to identify where the ring had ended up with his newly acquired electronic device. That strategy ended up being another bust in the list of ideas to try out. Back and forth, the couple kept taking turns trying again and again to find the missing-in-action sentimental keepsake. Sadly, at some point, Natalie and Carter recognized that with all of their diligent efforts, they were not qualified to be able to identify and extract the jewel from the Audi (if in fact it was really still there inside the vehicle).

Four days later after the initial incident took place, Natalie was at work and one of her fellow employees happened to step forward and search online for some kind of help for the poor young lady. That is when things began to turn around in this extremely frustrating string of events. The staff member found a website belonging to the elite international directory of metal detectorists called THE RING FINDERS. As Natalie read all about this very unique website that provides an unlimited database of highly competent item recovery specialists, she was more convinced more than ever that her answer was finally close at hand. The young lady looked up a specialist near her home and my name, Brian, Rudolph, popped up on her device. Natalie not only read that I was a successful metal detectorist, but that I also have much success in recovering lost rings inside vehicles of many kinds. With no time to waste, she immediately reached out to me and before long we scheduled an appointment for me to meet up with the couple at their Arnold, Maryland house.

The next morning, I drove to Natalie and Carter’s place where I could not wait to indulge myself in yet another in-vehicle search and recovery operation. I was still experiencing a tremendous high since my last in-vehicle success story just a couple of weeks earlier in Winchester, Virginia. It was an incredible search story that I will never forget! I was able to recover a very special family heirloom gold diamond ring for a young man who was devastated at the loss of his father who died a year earlier and then the loss of his father’s ring six months later. Now I had another opportunity to preserve another sentimental story about a lost ring that once was presented to Natalie on the day of her marriage several years earlier. If I was not able to recover this very special “symbol of love” from the vehicle, it would mean that the precious keepsake would never be worn again and therefore it certainly would not have the chance to be passed down Natalie’s family line as a cherished family heirloom one day.

As soon as I arrived, Natalie came out to the parking lot and began to show me what had taken place in the vehicle many days earlier. I had her reenact the entire event so that I could get a better idea of what could have happened to the wedding band. After my client concluded her demonstration, I shared with her that my biggest concern was that the ring may have been on her lap the whole time and then when she got out of the vehicle to search the Audi, she may not have realized that the ring fell onto the parking garage pavement. She too wondered if that was what happened to the band that she so desperately had been searching for to no avail. However, because she heard that particular “ping” noise immediately following the moment when the ring fell off of her finger, it was more likely that the ring did remain inside the vehicle. I did mention to Natalie that if the ring did make its way outside of the car, it probably happened because the wedding band had fell down between the door kick panel and the door itself. Then, when she opened the car door, the piece of white gold and diamonds fell out and rolled onto the concrete slab where the car was parked. I was hoping that that was not what actually happened, but we still had to realistically assess the situation and identify all possibilities as I was about to take on this next search and recovery challenge. Natalie reassured me that she and Carter checked and re-checked the parking garage concrete pavement to make sure that the wedding band did not drop to the ground and then roll out of sight. Her words were quite encouraging for me to hear as I was about to invest quite a bit of time with this attempted recovery operation.

Once Natalie and I completed my orientation inside the Audi, I went to my detecting backpack that was in a wagon that I wheeled down the street to the couple’s residence and then pulled out the necessary gear to begin the search. Because one cannot use a metal detector inside of a vehicle due to the massive amounts of metal that the vehicle is made out of, I have to resort to using other tools to help me identify lost items, such as my endoscope (which allows me to search corners, crevices and other spaces that the human eye cannot see). The first section of the car that I wanted to check out was the area under Natalie’s passenger seat. I knew from the facts given to me that the ring did not fly over to the driver side seat. She was playing with it and there was no indication that the wedding band flew across her side over to where Carter was stationed. Therefore, if in fact the ring was still inside the vehicle, I did not need to waste my time scanning the left portion of the Audi.

As I fed the endoscope lens below Natalie’s seat, I inspected both of her seat rails along with checking the lower air vent, gaps between the console carpet, and the floor carpet where the two merge underneath Natalie’s seat. I studied every crevice and corner that my endoscope allowed me to view on my monitor screen as I was not about to miss a single millimeter of space, knowing from past experiences how these rings can disappear into the most unlikely of places. Sometimes these recovery operations turn out to be a lot easier than anticipated. Based on the testimony of my client, the couple may not have had the correct tools to use, or perhaps they just happened to miss seeing the object of desire as they searched throughout the vehicle. In this particular case, I was initially able to conclude that Natalie’s precious keepsake was not hiding in some typical and obvious location and that this search could end up being a whole lot more complicated.

Once I completed my initial search under Natalie’s seat, I moved to the rear of the same seat and began to observe any and all additional places where I was not able to monitor from the front side. I made absolute certain that I didn’t miss the irreplaceable band anywhere from the rear. When I was satisfied that everything was clear of the jewel, it was time for me to check the right side of Natalie’s seat.

Knowing that the ring was not found in any of those potential spots underneath the front passenger seat, it was time to explore in and around the seat recliner lever mechanism that was located on the side of the seat. Remember, I had mentioned earlier that Natalie heard her ring bounce off of something that sounded like plastic. Therefore, my thinking was that it was quite possible that when the ring slipped away from Natalie’s finger, it rolled to the right side of her and bounced off of the lever and possibly ended up inside the mechanism. I wanted to make sure that the ring wasn’t trapped inside that particular part before continuing to search in any other location in the vehicle.

I brought all of my equipment back around to the front passenger side floor and began inspecting the recliner handle and the inner components of that part. Unfortunately, there were no possible spots where the ring could have gotten jammed in the mechanism. So, once again, I had to cross out yet another theory and move on to the next possible location where the diamond band may have ended up.

It was at this point in the search that I had to stop for a minute and recount all of the details which Natalie had given me on the phone and in person during her reenactment of what happened in the Audi four days prior to my arrival. Unless the ring fell out of the car when she opened the door in the parking garage, I had to keep telling myself that the jewel was still inside the Audi, trapped in a location that would really challenge a ring finder like myself to find.

Here are some of the facts and clues that I reconciled in my mind before attacking the next place where the ring might have ended up:

One, Natalie shared that she did not throw the ring, but rather, it slipped off of her finger. Therefore, it did not ricochet anywhere with too much speed or force involved when it took off.

Two, because I checked everywhere on the left side of Natalie’s front seat, I was 100% confident that the ring did not travel to the left of her body and then down under the left side of her seat. I clearly checked every square millimeter in that region and there was no way I had missed it.

Three, my client swore that she heard a “ping” sound as if the ring hit some type of plastic part inside the vehicle. If that was the case, it meant that the ring had to have gone in the direction towards the right front door. I knew after checking the side caddy compartment that was attached to the inner door skin that the ring did not fly into that isolated area. This all meant that wherever the ring ended up, it had to travel across Natalie’s right side and bounce somewhere off of some type of plastic piece and then land below that particular section.

Four, since I scanned with my endoscope all of the real estate within the side seat recliner lever mechanism (and there was no ring there and there was no ring under the seat as well), I had to conclude at that point, knowing all the facts given so far, that the jewel most likely bounced off of the recliner lever and disappeared into a crevice or space somewhere below that upper region.

All of these facts and deductions that I reviewed out there by the car helped me focus on the next possible location where the ring could have possibly ended up. In fact, there was only one place that I had left to check where Natalie’s beloved keepsake could have slipped into and disappeared out of sight somewhere. As I studied my surroundings further, the path that the ring most likely took after bouncing off of the side recliner lever mechanism was towards a very narrow slit that was located in a plastic trim panel that separated the front door jamb from the rear jamb. This particular piece of trim covered up the seatbelt which was bolted to the frame underneath that piece of plastic. The belt itself was threaded through that slit and then carried upward through a plastic guide ring where it then hung down waiting for a passenger to reach for it to buckle it in.

I kept staring at that very tiny slit in that panel where the seatbelt came out and I thought that the odds of Natalie’s ring jumping from the side lever mechanism and going airborne right into that tiny space was probably a thousand to one chance that it would have made it into that slit. Even the angle of the band had to perfectly maneuver itself on an exact angle and pitch for the piece of jewelry to slide perfectly into that narrow chamber and then fall into darkness below that trim panel. Yet, with the odds completely against my theory, it was all I had to work with and so I began making preparations to scan that very petite opening and see if the band traveled in and below it.

My first step in searching this last possible section was to place the endoscope into that very narrow slit to see what was down below. Regretfully, I was not able to fit the head of the lens into that narrow space so I had to look for another way in. As I followed that center vertical plastic trim piece down towards the carpet, I noticed that there was a rectangular plastic cut out piece that was designed to pull back from the main trim panel in order to have access to the seatbelt fastening bolt. The manufacture designed this piece in order for the mechanic to have easier access in removing and replacing the tie down bolt which holds the belt fabric to the frame. Once I got that small trim piece pulled back, I placed my endoscope down into the hole and searched everywhere below where the center vertical frame met up with the flooring and carpet.

Even though I thought that this particular spot that I was investigating had little to no chance of producing the missing ring, my attitude was the same as every other search that I have conducted. That is, I eliminate every possibility until I find the missing object, or that I don’t find it at all and therefore conclude that the item was no longer in that particular environment. I must have placed the endoscope lens in twenty or more locations down in that narrow chamber and nothing but carpet threads could be seen on my monitor screen. I kept changing the angles so that I didn’t miss a thing and still there was no jewelry to be discovered.

Knowing that this was my best and only chance remaining, I continued searching in that particular area and I decided to start pushing the snake farther down between the space where the carpet padding (eggshell white colored foam) was pressed up against the metal flooring. From what I could tell, there was nothing at all sandwiched between the vehicle carpet and the padding below it. Therefore, I wanted to search some more between the foam and the actual metal flooring just in case the piece of white gold somehow made its way farther and deeper across the Audi floor below.

It was not easy trying to push the endoscope between the foam and the floor. There was so much resistance because of how everything was compressed together that it convinced me even more that there was no way that a ring could somehow slip in between so much friction between that little space that I was observing. Yet, I didn’t give up and I just kept pushing farther and farther across the flooring in the direction of where the seat was bolted to the floor in the rear.

Just a reminder for the reader: The whole time I was looking at my monitor screen as I pushed the video camera snake farther along the flooring towards where the right rear seat frame support was bolted into the floor. I probably got the scope to reach approximately 5 inches away from the center support beam. Reaching that far away starting from the right inner edge inside the car, I didn’t think there was a chance in the world that any kind of metal would show up on my monitor screen. Then, as I kept on searching that underside section of the foam padding, at some point, just before I was about to pull the endoscope out and call it quits, I saw something appear on my screen that slightly resembled a piece of jewelry. At first I thought perhaps it was just a reflection of the floor itself. However, the more that I repositioned the endoscope in multiple angles, the more I got convinced that I was staring at my first potential target! My mind and heart started to race faster with great curiosity, intrigue and anticipation as I pondered the possibility that against all odds, I may have found the ring that had disappeared into thin air four days earlier!

As I shared earlier, I had recently been a part of not just one in-vehicle search in Alexandria, Virginia, but actually involved in several other crazy in-vehicle searches that were certainly unbelievable success stories! And pondering upon what I potentially had just discovered while staring at the endoscope screen, this one would add to another amazing story to share with my readers if indeed what I was seeing on the screen was actually Natalie’s sentimental wedding keepsake!

Because this object had burrowed its way far across the flooring of the vehicle, I was unable to push and position the endoscope any better than how I placed it thus far. So, in order for me to correctly identify that particular target, I needed to remove my snake from the trim panel slot and try reinserting the lens from a different location in the vehicle. After taking a few minutes to assess the situation, I determined that the best entry point for the endoscope would have to be under the trim panel that ran across the floor (which covered the edge of the carpeting as well as the metal floor reinforcement). It turned out that the floor trim molding actually was part of the vertical trim panel (all one piece) where I stuck the endoscope down in that one particular slot below where the seatbelt went into the plastic slit above it. Knowing that this was all one piece, I would need to loosen both the vertical panel and the lower floor horizontal trim cover molding all at the same time, since it was manufactured together as one “L” shaped part. Recognizing that there was some risk in breaking the large piece of plastic, I sought Natalie’s permission for me to go ahead with lifting the lower portion of this trim panel and molding in order to get better access to this mysterious object. I purposely didn’t tell Natalie that I had a particular target that I was working on identifying just so that I didn’t raise her hopes up too high if this pursuit for success turned out to be a bust. My client agreed to allow me to attempt the loosening of the large trim panel and then I immediately got busy with the removal process.

Slowly and carefully I used a couple of tools to release the trim panel from all of its connectors in order for me to lift it up to get access underneath with the endoscope. Then, I slid the snake as deep in as it would travel until I got it approximately in the same location as to where I believed I initially saw that piece of metal. When I realized that my probe still required some flexibility in moving the endoscope cable, I pulled back the carpet and used my box cutter to remove some excess foam padding below the main carpet. With every inch of material that I got rid of, I found that I had much more ability to wield the endoscope in a variety of different angles that I had previously been unable to perform.

As I positioned the camera back in the zone that I was aiming for again, I was quite encouraged to find a unique piece of colored thread that I had identified when I had originally placed the scope down that first opening of the vertical center trim panel. I was certain now that I was right where I needed to be and it was now just a matter of maneuvering the lens around to find that silver looking object that showed up on my screen earlier. Perhaps another few minutes went by as I continued to search for that particular target, and then a huge rush of encouragement came my way! While I was pulling back the more of the carpet and foam padding as much as I possibly could, I pushed the endoscope just another inch or so in a particular direction on a certain angle and there before me was what looked like a thin silver colored “halo” shaped object that was tightly wedged in between the carpet foam padding and the floor of the vehicle! This was the best visual coverage that I had seen on my monitor screen since observing just a portion of that piece of metal earlier!

I started to get extremely excited about discovering this new additional puzzle piece and I was becoming more convinced that this object actually was the lost ring!  Knowing that it was nearly impossible for this target to be some other random object that “happened” to resemble a ring and just “happened” to make its way that far into the foam padding where it met up with the floor, I had to believe that I had found what initially seemed to be unobtainable! At that point, nothing was going to stop me from fully identifying what this round shaped object was! I kept positioning and repositioning the camera and tried to come alongside the target to see if I could make out any specific details that could help me further identify the piece of metal. After another minute or two of this same maneuvering technique with the endoscope, with great excitement, my answer finally arrived before my very eyes! There it was on the endoscope monitor! My eyes beheld several pretty diamonds that were encircled around the band of this metal object! They sparkled so brilliantly, shooting off countless rays of reflected light from my faithful scope’s LED beam! It was if every “ice” facet was sending me endless beacon distress calls, hoping that I was there to rescue that most sentimental piece of precious metal from the darkness where the ring had been hiding all this time! I couldn’t believe what I was looking at! Honestly, I was totally taken back by this very unexpected discovery of Natalie’s lost ring!

Not in my wildest dreams did I think that the diamond wedding band could have ricocheted off of the side seat lever mechanism and fly perfectly into that very narrow slit that was just wide enough for a very thin ring to go down into it! It had to approach the opening on a perfect angle for it to enter the plastic trim where the seatbelt exited! The chances of this happening were astronomical indeed! Then, to add to that craziness, the jewel disappeared below into the darkness, moving its way between the carpet pad and the floor and then traveled across the flooring approximately 5 inches or so until it settled down to its final resting place!

Prior to this recovery operation, I thought that I could never experience greater shocks of surprise from my other recoveries in the vehicles that I had searched in the past couple of months! Now, this one certainly took the cake by far! It never ceases to amaze me where these circles of love ultimately end up! My face lit up and I kept saying out loud to myself, “This is amazing! This is absolutely unbelievable! I can’t believe I did it! I did it! I found her ring!” I then began to thank the Lord for answering Natalie’s and my prayer which we lifted up to the Lord earlier on before I started the search. I felt such favor from God in helping me figure out where the wedding band had ended up all of this time! I was truly thankful for all of the Lord’s help with the wisdom He had given me that particular day!

Now that I finally located and identified Natalie‘s lost wedding memento, I needed to perform a particular procedure to extract the ring from its hiding place. There was no way that I could use my fingers to reach and retrieve the precious piece of jewelry, so I connected a special hook to the end of my probe and worked hard to catch the little halo in order to successfully rescue it from the darkness and return it once more to the person and place where it was greatly missed – Natalie’s left hand’s ring finger! I am very proud to share that within a few minutes of adjusting my strategy to hook and capture the jewel, I was able to successfully remove the sentimental keepsake from under the padding! For the first time since I located my target on the endoscope screen, I got to finally hold that beautiful diamond ring in my hand and see the precious white gold and diamonds with my own eyes!

The whole experience was simply breathtaking! I really didn’t believe this was all happening due to all of the impossibilities that surrounded this particular search! The greatest part of finding this irreplaceable piece of jewelry was that I got to then surprise the living daylights out of Natalie and her husband Carter! What a moment that was! My clients were completely blown away by the news that I revealed to them, and more importantly the shock I gave when I showed the evidence of my success that I held between my fingers! The three of us celebrated with so much excitement and elation! No one could really grasp the reality of what had just taken place! It all seemed just so surreal what had finally been restored to Natalie‘s finger! And not only that… but also what was preserved forever – a very meaningful symbol of love that told a very special love story that began ‘once upon a time‘!

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Lost Gold and Green Quartz Stone Engagement Ring at Ulua Lagoon Ko Olina Resort…FOUND!!!

  • from O‘ahu (Hawaii, United States)


This ring hunt began when my fellow ring finder on Maui Dave Sheldon texted, “Inbound ring hunt for you. Good Luck.” I then received a call from Dustin who was on a family vacation from Salt Lake City, Utah. While his daughter Sophee was in the water she noticed sand lodged in between the setting and the stone. She took her ring off to rinse and it slipped out of her fingers and into the shallow water between her legs. She thought she could just reach down and grab it, but the water was just slightly murky and she didn’t have any goggles to search. She yelled for her three sisters Sydnee, Saydee and Stevee to help her search but initially they thought she was joking. When she screamed she wasn’t they came over immediately and tried to help. Sophee started to cry and told her fiance’ Teagan the ring was taken by the ocean and they probably weren’t going to see it again. They frantically searched for about an hour and as the sun went down the water was really getting cold. Sophee was crying so much she could barely see anymore. The mask she was wearing kept fogging up to make matters worse. Finally, after reaching Dave on Maui Sophee’s father Dustin got my number. The funny part was Dustin said I was a “ring finder” so I’m sure he can find it. If it was “ring searcher” I wouldn’t be so sure. Dad’s have the best humor in difficult times! The sun was setting fast so thankfully traffic across Oahu allowed me to get there in 30 minutes. Upon arrival, Teagan and Sophee helped me create a grid and I started the search. After the hunt I didn’t find the ring so I told them let me go over and expand the grid. Sure enough on about the third grid in calf deep water I got a loud number “8” on the Nox and in one scoop I could just see a ring in the twilight. Sophee and Teagan were amazed I found it and the location was much closer to the shoreline then they imagined. Tides can deceive the hunter! Vacation saved! Aloha to Sophee & Teagan!

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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How to find a lost ring in snow…

  • from Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada)

Vancouver Ring Finder Chris Turner- Ring Recovery Specialist…Lost your ring?… Metal Detecting Service/Call ASAP  Anytime   778-838-3463

 

I got a distress call early evening Saturday in regards to a lost diamond engagement ring in Chilliwack. After talking for 20 minutes we arrange a time and place to meet the next day, originally I was looking to meet around noon but the young man asked if I could do it sooner as his wife was struggling with the fact that she lost her engagement ring.

They even told me they bought a metal detector and search for it also 10 or more people walking by the time stop to help search in the snow unfortunately finding a platinum diamond ring in the snow is virtually impossible. The fact that they bought a metal detector doesn’t always mean they’re going to fine with Dave Lost. If you have never used a metal detector it would be hard to understand how it works and how to properly search for it. I have 50 years of a Metal Detecting Experience and lots of lessons I have learned over the years on wear rings turn up, it’s not always where you think they’re going to be.

After meeting the young couple they showed me where they believe the ring could be, they cleverly marked two trees so they could get back to the area… Very smart thing to do because sometimes people don’t always get you back to the exact area. After searching for close to 30 minutes and no Ring the young lady went to the second location she thought it may have come off her finger and that was by the lake, her husband stayed behind to watch me and shortly after I found her beautiful diamond ring and surprised her husband. We agreed to go to the lake and surprise his wife!

 

 

 

 

Vancouver Ring Finder Chris Turner- Ring Recovery Specialist…Lost your ring?… Metal Detecting Service/Call ASAP  Anytime   778-838-3463

I have the best job in the world, I love helping people more than anything I’ve ever done in my lifetime. I get to make people smile, I get to hear their stories of what their ring means to them, and I get to see how happy they are when I find it.

Video ofthe search below…

 

Lost Wedding Ring in Cedar City: Found

Had another thrilling ring recovery this week! Most of the calls I get from theringfinders.com directory are up and down the Wasatch front here in Utah but this week’s call came in from Cedar City which is about 3 hours south.

Hayden reached out to me after a couple days of searching for this wife’s engagement ring. Jennifer had left the house to take an evening walk and as she rounded the corner, she felt and heard her ring fly off her finger. Fortunately, she was able to find her wedding band in the street just about 15 feet from where she felt the ring come off her finger. Her engagement ring was a white gold with a halo setting of diamonds. Hayden first went out and bought a metal detector but it was difficult to use. After talking with Hayden, my schedule worked out that I could head down that  day and look for the ring. I got in car around 1:30pm and got to Hayden’s house a little after 4pm with about an hour left of light. We made a few passes along the curb of the road but quickly realized we were too far down the road from where Jennifer had found her other ring. Once Jennifer described where she was, I was able to backtrack up the street and within just a few minutes, I found the ring which had jumped the curb and landed into the tall grass. When I pulled the ring from the grass, Hayden and Jennifer were so excited. Like most engagement rings, this one was very special to them and finding it before they were set to move from the house was causing a lot of stress and anxiety.

After a few smiles and hugs, we went to take some pics for this page and that’s when we had a little plot twist! Jennifer went to hand me the ring so I could get a close up and since it was so cold and the wind was blowing really hard, the ring fell out of her hand onto the street again. Only this time, it landed right in front of us but we quickly noticed that the center diamond was missing!!! Just after a few minutes of finding the ring, we were back looking for the diamond on the street. Jennifer had mentioned the prong on the setting was damaged and needed to be fixed. After about a ten minute search, Jennifer spotted the diamond and all peace and joy was restored lol. I truly believe it was a blessing that the diamond came out then vs sometime in the future where it would have been virtually impossible to find.

So after 3 hour drive down to Cedar City, followed by a 45 minute search, Hayden and Jennifer had their ring back with the lost diamond. I think the great thing about this whole experience is meeting some amazing people and hearing their stories. I got home a little after 8pm that night right before the snow started to fall. Everything just worked out perfectly and so happy Hayden and Jennifer reached out!

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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iPhone lost in Cape Coral canal

  • from Melbourne Beach (Florida, United States)

I was skeptical when a call came in to me about a lost cell phone in a canal. Especially when I was out of town and could not do a search for over 24hrs.

But Jeremy and Shannon were even more skeptical!! They had traveled by boat to a popular eatery in Cape Coral. When exiting the boat the phone slipped into the water.

I tried laying on the dock and stretching as far as my detector could reach  but inevitably I ended up in the water.  Not only was the phone found but it was still on and working!

 

   

Lost & Found Rings in Vancouver, BC

  • from Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada)

Vancouver Ring Finder Chris Turner- Ring Recovery Specialist…Lost your ring?… Metal Detecting Service/Call ASAP  Anytime   778-838-3463

 

Today I got a phone call from a young lady who told me she got upset and threw her ring at around midnight the day before. She went on to tell me she knew the exact location and that they had been back twice that night searching for it, once with their phone flashlight and later with a metal detector they borrowed from a friend.

Unfortunately they couldn’t find it and wanted to have me come out and take a look, after talking for a little while I got in my car and drove out to meet the couple. One of the hardest things to do is tell a stranger that you got mad and threw your ring, well it happens and we are human! We get mad.

When I got there the young couple were just arriving we talked for a little bit and she walked me over to where she knew she had thrown the ring the night before. I asked my typical questions, she showed me where she was standing when she threw the ring and as she was making the throwing motion I look towards the area and we both saw the ring at the same time!  On the ground in plain sight! In the same area they were searching the night before with a metal detector and a flashlight, strangely it was just sitting there for anyone to see and people were walking on that sidewalk and could’ve easily found it before us.

 

 

 

 

 

I do believe in good luck and this was her lucky day! What a beautiful ring! The only thing I could think of was maybe the night before while they were looking for it they may have kicked a leaf over top of it and then it just blew away at some point in the day.

Vancouver Ring Finder Chris Turner- Ring Recovery Specialist…Lost your ring?… Metal Detecting Service/Call ASAP  Anytime   778-838-3463

I have the best job in the world, I love helping people more than anything I’ve ever done in my lifetime. I get to make people smile, I get to hear their stories of what their ring means to them, and I get to see how happy they are when I find it.

Video ofthe search below…

 

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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Lost Rose Gold and Tantalum Wedding Band at Naia Lagoon Ko Olina…FOUND!!!

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This Ring Find began Tuesday afternoon when I got a call from Alena who was on vacation from Oregon and staying at the Ko Olina Resort with her husband Yevgeniy. While on the beach her husband noticed his Rose Gold and Tantalum Ring was missing from his finger. He wasn’t sure when it came of but was sure it was either when he was playing volleyball or when he jumped in and swam in the lagoon to cool off. Since it might require scuba I told Alena the best day would be Thursday afternoon low tide as the surf was at the moment crashing on the North and West facing shorelines. I assured her no one else would get the ring as I was the only metal detectorist allowed on Ko Olina Resort. When I arrived Thursday Alena & Yevgeniy were waiting for me on the beach. I had Yevgeniy draw a box in the dry sand where he had been playing volleyball and then in the wet sand on the left and right grid marks from where he was in the water of the lagoon. I told them they could go relax while I did the hunt as it could take quite awhile especially if I had to go in the water. I fired up the Nox and first searched the Volleyball area with no luck. Since Yevgeniy said he ran to the water I figured I better search the sand going towards the water. On the second leg of that grid I got a loud number “8” on the Nox and in one scoop there was his unique rose gold and tantalum ring in the scoop. This is where experience grid hunting paid off because it was about six feet outside the volleyball grid area towards the lagoon. I held up the ring and Alena was still on the beach and she came running down in disbelief. Yevgeniy had told her he was pretty sure it was gone forever and didn’t think it would be found. He had to provide someone a ride and had left the resort so, Alena texted him the good news. Vacation saved! Aloha to Alena & Yevgeniy!