ToastedWheatie
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The story:
My friend grew up in farmalnd, and an adjacent property had lived Crazy Old Lady "H". Mrs. H had no visable means of suppoort, no children, no visitors, and seldom left the house. The house was a large farmhouse, and was kept up.
She passed away around 1970, and her husband 20+ years before that. He was a bookie for the Mob (we are about an hour outside of NYC), and was murdered in Chicago.
She died with no heirs, and my friend doesn't remember what happened to the property in the house. He does remember going into the house after she died, looking for her "stash" (don't judge now, he was a teenager...). He found lots of old betting slips (confirming bookie stories), but no cash.
Maybe she used banks, maybe not.
but my thought is in the bookie being murdered. What mobbed up guy wouldn't have cash available? And would they wife actually know about it? It's not that he had an opportunity to speak on his death bed.
fast forward a few years and the county took the property for taxes. A few more years and the the local fire dept. burned down the house as it had become unsafe.
My friend heard about my MDing, and jumped at the chance to tell me his long held secret of the property, as he has always wanted to go back and search, but "just never got around to it"'
The property was never developed, and now just sits as woods.
I should be going tomorrow, and would guess that this will take more than one visit.
So my question to you is; Outside of the normal detecting that i would do for old foundations, is there something special i should be looking for? Was there a favorite way/place/? that the mob stashed cash back in that time period?
My friend grew up in farmalnd, and an adjacent property had lived Crazy Old Lady "H". Mrs. H had no visable means of suppoort, no children, no visitors, and seldom left the house. The house was a large farmhouse, and was kept up.
She passed away around 1970, and her husband 20+ years before that. He was a bookie for the Mob (we are about an hour outside of NYC), and was murdered in Chicago.
She died with no heirs, and my friend doesn't remember what happened to the property in the house. He does remember going into the house after she died, looking for her "stash" (don't judge now, he was a teenager...). He found lots of old betting slips (confirming bookie stories), but no cash.
Maybe she used banks, maybe not.
but my thought is in the bookie being murdered. What mobbed up guy wouldn't have cash available? And would they wife actually know about it? It's not that he had an opportunity to speak on his death bed.
fast forward a few years and the county took the property for taxes. A few more years and the the local fire dept. burned down the house as it had become unsafe.
My friend heard about my MDing, and jumped at the chance to tell me his long held secret of the property, as he has always wanted to go back and search, but "just never got around to it"'
The property was never developed, and now just sits as woods.
I should be going tomorrow, and would guess that this will take more than one visit.
So my question to you is; Outside of the normal detecting that i would do for old foundations, is there something special i should be looking for? Was there a favorite way/place/? that the mob stashed cash back in that time period?