Rachel’s extraordinary platinum 1.5 carat yellow diamond engagement ring that was lovingly designed by her husband Jonathan.
Rachel, Jonathan and family express their excitement for ring finder Brian Rudolph’s fantastic finish in discovering his client’s ring after it had gone missing eight days earlier.
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Rachel reached out to me after losing her platinum 1.5 carat yellow diamond engagement ring at Bohrer Park at Summit Hall Farm on July 13th, 2024. She and her husband Jonathan walked to the 30-plus acre land with their two children during an annual event called SportsFest. Youth entering grades K through 8 can participate in a variety of activities. Later that Saturday night, Rachel realized that she no longer had her priceless engagement ring on her finger. She was devastated.
The couple spent the next day searching the huge grassy park to see if they could recover Rachel’s irreplaceable diamond ring. It was nearly impossible to recount where they walked because there were activity stations for the children placed all over the sports fields and other locations throughout the endless acreage.
When they couldn’t find the ring out at the park, they tore their place apart to see if maybe Rachel lost her ring somewhere in their townhome. Sadly, all of their efforts led to no avail.
Later that Sunday evening, I received Rachel’s call for help. I spent a good amount of time on the phone getting all of the details from the couple in order for me to better process the story and come up with a game plan to help my desperate clients.
Two days later, on Tuesday morning, July 16th, I scheduled with Rachel and Jonathan for me to come to their Gaithersburg, Maryland home to start the search. The couple took me over to the park and we walked in the direction of where they remembered taking their children to the special event. It was a lot of territory that I would have to cover! I’m talking a lot! However, I was completely up for the challenge! We returned back to their house and I immediately checked the couch with special equipment, however, the ring was not in the furniture.
After applying much sunscreen and filling my red tool case with a cooler and other search accessories, I walked myself back over to the park to begin the hunt on grass for Rachel’s beautiful platinum yellow diamond jewel.
The day was so hot that temperatures reached over 100 degrees! I metal detected for a few hours but the only thing I came up with was a bunch of trash. Even Jonathan joined me over by one of the sports fields to lend a hand with grid positioning. A few hours later I had to go to another appointment, sadly leaving the property without recovering the ring at that time.
The next day, at noontime on Wednesday July 17th, I returned to the park and resumed my search for the engagement ring. I laid down my grid lines from one section of the grassy estate to the next section. Because it would take too long to grid all 30 acres of the property, I had to place a single grid line down and work on both sides of it every 100 feet. Then, I would move the grid line down another hundred feet and so on. I metal detected all over the sports field and along the sidelines. There was a fairly large hill that the family had walked down and back up again when they headed over to the community center. I searched a portion of that area and still nothing turned up.
The whole time that I was metal detecting, the concern came to my mind over and over again which had to do with the community center. The couple took the kids inside the center during the sportsfest and Rachel sat down on a bench in one of the hallways. There was a strong possibility that it was at that moment that the ring came out of her pocket and landed on the floor. So while I was doing all of the searching on the grass, there was always that question mark as to whether or not I was wasting all that time looking on the property when the ring potentially had already been found by somebody and pocketed.
I did another 3 hours that Wednesday and still I was not able to find Rachel’s beautiful diamond ring. I let the couple know that I would return again the following day to continue swinging my detector with the hope that if the ring had fallen out of Rachel’s short’s pocket out on the vast property, perhaps it still had not been found by anyone just quite yet.
The next day, Thursday July 18th, I made it back out to the search site around 3pm. I was determined to not give up even though my clients were starting to lose hope as time moved forward. Rachel brought one of her sons to the park and met me out on top of the grassy hill near the community center’s parking lot. She answered more questions regarding where the family had walked so that I could lay down some more grid lines. She and her son took one of my grid lines and placed the 100 foot tape in the direction of where Rachel believed they had all walked that past Saturday. As soon as they started heading back, I once again took out my metal detector and started gridding both sides the tape.
When nothing was discovered along the grid path that I had carefully scanned over, I metal detected a section of a smaller hill located above the main sports field. On our initial walk on the first search day, Rachel and Jonathan showed me a section of the hill between two trees where a trash can was located and they thought that that was a viable place to detect. I searched that area but did not find anything there. So, I told them that I would search to the left of that mid section and see if maybe they were actually farther to the left than what they remembered. Unfortunately, nothing panned out in that location either.
Afternoon turned into evening and I once again had to leave the search site for the third time. I still had approximately one hour left to search for the mystery jewel as part of what was agreed upon by both parties on my company contract. Therefore, I let Rachel and Jonathan know that I would plan to come out one more time to attempt to pull the missing ring from the huge grassy property.
Three days later, on Sunday July 21st, at approximately 3:45pm (8 days after Rachel had lost her treasured keepsake), I returned for the final time to search for Rachel’s beloved ring. I regretted not being able to come back any sooner to do more detecting and I knew that had to be hard for my clients to let a few more days to go by. They quickly were losing all hope of ever getting their special symbol of love back.
I focused on rechecking a couple of places that I had previously detected because I wanted to make sure that I didn’t miss anything. When the hour was up, even though I was done with all 6 hours that were contracted, I told the couple I would keep searching on my own time. I just had to know that I did everything I could before finally having to call it quits.
I continued to search for many more hours for the ring, explaining to my clients that they would not be obligated to cover the additional time that I expended out on the hot grass-filled property. I wanted them to know that I was volunteering the remainder of the time invested to hopefully discover Rachel’s ring that Jonathan had personally designed himself, completely custom made for his future bride at the time.
Once I completed scanning the ground over by a section of grass near the playground equipment, I decided I would return far over to one of the hills on the opposite end of the park where I had previously metal detected two sections of that space on two separate search days during the previous week.
I had searched the middle section between two trees where the trash can was located and I on another day I searched the left side of the left tree and did not find anything in that spot either. So, I decided to search the right side of the right tree just in case my clients did not remember that they were actually to the right of the trash can and not to the left end of it.
I started at the bottom of the hill where the sideline for the sports field was located. Rachel had remembered squatting down to help take off her son’s shoes so he could go play in one of the inflatable bounce houses. I had already metal detected that section at least a couple of times already but I decided to do it once more. Again, there was nothing discovered there, so I proceeded to metal detect the right portion of the hill, slowly swinging back and forth as I made my way up that area of the hill.
A few minutes later I reached midway up the hill and I received an excellent target signal. I did not find Rachel’s ring but I happen to discover a young lady’s gold ring that she must have received for her 15th birthday’s quinceañera celebration. The rose and yellow gold piece of jewelry was partially buried mostly in the dirt mixed with some random blades grass.
After placing my first treasure in one of my pockets, I continued scanning the hill, completely conscious of the fact that I was only a couple of “air” gridlines from finishing my long drawn out and very exhausting ring search. And then…I captured yet another curious signal. I knelt down to the ground and used my orange pinpointer to locate the exact spot of the target. I then moved some dirt out of the way and there it was! I couldn’t believe what I was staring at! It was a silver looking band with a large sized solitaire yellow stone on top! A beautiful yellow diamond to be precise! I found it! I recovered Rachel’s lost ring! I couldn’t believe it!
It was at that moment that I released so much emotion and physical relief! I truly couldn’t process within what I had just discovered! I was only feet away from ending the week’s long adventure out on all that grass and then it was over, literally at the final few seconds of possibilities! I recovered my client’s most sought after material possession and it would soon be returning to the finger that it rightfully belonged to! Amazing! I gave many thanks to the Lord for answering the prayer that I and my clients had initially lifted up towards Heaven just before starting the search.
I just sat on that hillside for a good while and let the reality of the moment fully sink in. I can’t fully express just how grateful I felt to have searched farther outside the box, deciding to metal detect the right side section of the hill! It turned out that Rachel and Jonathan misremembered the place where they stopped on that hillside. Rachel probably reached for her phone and the ring came out with her iPhone and there it fell to the ground at that very place where my machine eventually picked up its signal!
Within the next hour I surprised my clients with the most incredible reveal! Rachel cried and Jonathan was in complete disbelief with what they were being presented with. They had pretty much resolved within them that the ring was gone forever. Rachel had visited a local pawn shop in search of her missing jewel along with filing a police report with the county authorities. And yet, the true reality of the situation was that their 8-day nightmare was finally over!
Had I stopped searching after the contract’s agreed upon hours had been expended, the engagement ring would have never been held by Rachel’s hand ever again. Yes indeed, I am so very glad that God made me to be such a stubborn and passionate human being! With every ring search, it’s never over until it has to be over!
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I was on the road heading home from a recovery, when I saw a message come across from Alan. He lost a very sentimental gold charm, on the volleyball court the day before and was very interested to see if I would be able to locate it with my metal detector. He told me it was a private location, and with that I knew I had some time before I had to get to his recovery. I asked him to give me a call later on in the evening and I would see what other calls I had in that area and try to schedule them together. As it turns out, I was heading up to that area the next morning and told Alan I would do his recovery right after I finished the first one I had already scheduled . I got all the details I needed, as he was 95% sure the Charm was on the volleyball court. Once I got there I made a couple of paths along the one side of the court, when I got a sweet tone from my metal detector, and sure enough, it turned out to be his charm. I sent Alan a picture, which he could not believe that I was able to locate it. He was not in the area anymore, so he requested that I leave the charm with the homeowner. Alan requested to withhold his picture, and I fully understand , some people just don’t want to be on Facebook. Another recovery in the books .
I received a text from Robyn in reference to a St Michaels pendant that was lost the prior day on a softball field. She had said it had extreme sentimental value, and it had been given to her nephew by his grandmother quite a while back. After getting all the details, we agreed on a time to meet at the ball field. If you know about softball, prior to the game, there is quite a bit of workouts that take place. That said, I started my search on first base, one of the locations it may have come off. Then searched the dugouts with no luck. Checked around home plate where batting practice took place, and still nothing. Then down the 3rd base line where lots of throwing and stretching take place prior to the game, yep you guessed it nothing. So, I walked back to the bleachers where Robyn was sitting, and talking with Michael, her nephew, who lost the pendent. After talking with him he mentioned that after playing first base, he went into the dugout, then out to coach 3rd base, the only spot left to search. Guess what, thats right, nothing again. Something is not right, he positively lost it on the field, but one KEY detail we missed. While heading out to coach 3rd base, he noticed the end of the chain hanging way down by his belt, with the cross stuck on the lobster claw clasp. But, everything was already searched. I stood back deep on the grass/clay line where he might have been playing, mumbling to myself, that I covered from the pitchers mound, all the way to the dugout, and even back on the grass a bit. It was then I realized I hadn’t covered right behind the mound where a first baseman would charge hard to make the cutoff on a line drive to second base. It was just a few moments later the pendant was recovered, right where I just mentioned. This is a perfect example of why we ask so many questions when doing a recovery, that one clue of the chain hanging low, could have eliminated all the extra searching. Regardless, another very happy ending.
The night prior to Carries phone call, her son and some friends were over in Seaside Height NJ, on a small but well-known beach they call Sunset Beach. The were messing around like all teenage kids do, when his chain broke and his cherished cross went missing. It was pretty dark that night, but that did not deter their search efforts. Unfortunately they came up empty handed. They returned the following morning and again had no luck. The cross and location were posted on one of the local Facebook pages, where Carrie grabbed my number and called to set up the recovery. She gave me exact details of where the chain had broken, and within minutes, the cross was in my scoop. I immediately called Carrie, and we agreed to meet down the road in about 15 minutes. Another fantastic recovery of a cherished keepsake in the books.
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It was another fantastic day in New Jersey so Denise and her family decided to pack up and head to the beach. Denise’s nephew loves the beach, especially flying kites when the wind is just right. Prior to flying the kite, she removed her necklace and engagement ring. Denise slipped the necklace through her ring and secured the clasp, then placed them both in her top pocket for safe keeping. They both had ran all over the soft white sand, almost covering the entire block, well about 2/3 of it anyhow. It was later on when she looked in the pocket and , OH NO, both were missing. Everyone searched the area for quite some time when they decided a metal detector was needed. They headed down to the local store and purchased one, figuring the necklace would soon be located. Well, unfortunately that did not work, so they decided to call in a professional. Once I arrived and got all the details, I covered the entire area where they were flying the kite, figuring that was the most likely area they would have fallen out of her top pocket. With nothing to show for my effort, we decided the next most traveled area was the top of the tide line, and down a bit to the low tide mark. After a few passes, I asked them to move back a little, and sure enough, very close to the chairs, was the spot my metal detector sniffed out the ring and necklace. Everyone was totally amazed, and the best I can figure, either the necklace never made it into her top pocket, or coincidently it fell out right in the area they had set up the chairs and stuff. Regardless another happy ending !!!!
