Maine kids picking up trash by roadside find pillowcase filled with a couple’s stolen valuables
The old photographs, jewelry, and a military medal were just some of the treasures taken from a York County home during a burglary last year.
Three kids were picking up roadside trash in Lebanon, Maine, on a snowy Saturday in April when one of them spotted something different among the discarded beer cans and garbage, the Portland Press Herald reports.
“It was a pillowcase covered by leaves,” 11-year-old Sophie Tetreault told the newspaper. “It had a little bit of snow on it and it looked weird. We knew we had to pick it up.”
Inside they found a military medal, a jewelry box, and some photographs, which the youngsters told the Press Herald they immediately knew must have been stolen. Tetreault’s mother shared photos of the lost treasures to Facebook, and someone recognized a woman in one of the tattered photographs — Joanne Couture.
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Couture’s Lebanon home had been burglarized in March 2017, according to the Press Herald, and she and her husband assumed they would never see the stolen belongings again.
And while most of what was taken in the burglary is likely still gone forever, having the items found in the blue pillowcase — her husband’s Air Force medal and a small pair of gold earrings given to her by her mother — back means a lot to them.
“(We have) two things that are very sentimental,” she told the newspaper.
Read the full story at the Press Herald.
