Ideas needed: uncle hid Rolex before he died

[URY914]

Have you found his porn stash yet?

[MarkRobinson]

too late, I'm already in-route to pharlap71's house....now where is that again??

Thanks for the thoughts guys; keep them coming!

Piano- yes, keyboard cover only, need to re-look more thoroughly.

Coat/paint/shirt pockets in his closet: yes (hers, front closet: no, adding to the list now)

Stoves are in-wall, so no lower drawer like I have.

[Aggie93]

One place i used to hide stuff when i was a kid was the underside lip of various stuff.

I had a hutch on top of my dresser that had a drawer on one side and a light on the other. The light was not bolted on the bottom of the hutch, but was inside the compartment where a drawer would be. There was one piece of wood that went across the bottom and a oval was cut out where the light was. All kinds of stuff was hidden on this ledge. I hope I described it ok. Something similar would be a bed frame. There would be a little space there next to board that goes across to hold up the mattress.

[pharlap71]

Originally Posted by MarkRobinson

too late, I'm already in-route to pharlap71's house....now where is that again??

Thanks for the thoughts guys; keep them coming!

Piano- yes, keyboard cover only, need to re-look more thoroughly.

Coat/paint/shirt pockets in his closet: yes (hers, front closet: no, adding to the list now)

Stoves are in-wall, so no lower drawer like I have.

Hey guys, if you come just make sure I am not at home. I don't have anything worth shooting anyone, BUT.... if you are in my house without a personal invitation we are going to have issues!

[MarkRobinson]

Originally Posted by sc_rufctr

May be worth checking...

20 odd years ago you could buy false power points that slid out like a draw.
They were popular with retired, older people because they were cheap and effective.

You mean a standard wall outlet: that's false? interesting. His office is paneled as he was an attorney: already knocked on all of them to see if any were hinged/hollow:

Mark

[Groesbeck Hurricane]

Mark,

First off I am sorry for your loss!


Secondly:

big time check pockets!!! Is there the chance he had it on when going to hospital or prior to expiring?

Check drawers, pull them out and check behind them. Some higher end furniture has internal dividers to keep things from falling from one drawer area to the next.

Look through pillows, pillow cases on pillows. Lift up and look under cushions, between and under matresses, and under furniture as well as on top of furniture.

Contact Cousin, they might have already found it!

Look in kitchen cabinets and drawers.



Not all movers are dishonest. Our movers in Belgium were VERY honest! They were putting serial numbers on everything before I could review it, they tracked everything, AND they put tags on the outside of the French moving company's truck AND marked the tags on ALL documentation. The French drivers were trying to steal stuff and the ex-wife gave them some of her special type of crazy. (I bought a bunch of beer, bread, and wine for the Belgian guys!!!)

[madmmac]

Look inside the printer.

Many drawers actually have space behind them when they close. You have to remove the drawer to see what is there.

Under his mattress?

[pharlap71]

Hey Mark, if your uncle is the original owner of the Rolex it is registered to him. Contact them and let them know that it is missing from the estate and ask them to look out for it. Slim chance but I would do it. I har an uncle who would stash cash in his work shop, his sisters told him to stop but after he died and they sold everything I have wondered about it.
PS- guys if you come make sure I'm not home and leave the Carrera alone!

[MRM]

Where did he usually keep the watch, in a box, on the night stand, or in a winder? The point of the question is whether the box that he usually kept the watch in is missing too, or if the box is empty and the watch is gone. If the whole box is gone, then you are looking for a space large enough for the box; if not, you could be looking for something so small that a coiled up watch could fit into it. Take off your watch, see how it folds up, now realize you could be looking for a cubby hole that small.

However, you can make some educated deductions about where the watch is based on his physical abilities and where he was located at the time he was hiding the watch. You know it will be someplace that is very easily accesable but is well enough hidden that it doesn't seem obvious. It will be someplace small. It will be hidden inside something, not just laid under something. He would have had the instinct to bury it, not just hide it from view. It will be something that was easy to drop the watch into but is probably harder to get it out of and is innocuous, otherwise he would have remembered and retreived it.

Light fixtures are a good hiding spot, in the ceiling where the fixture actually attaches to the ceiling. It could be in that cavity.

In many countries, the most common place to hide valuable is to tape them to the bottom of a drawer in a dresser. Look on the underside of all drawers.

Is there a laundry chute? See if there is a hiding spot within reaching distance of that.

Check all pants pockets and suit coat pockets, even if they're hangin up or were put away. He might have intended to hide it, forgotten that it was in his pocket, and the clothes got put away. I've done that, believe it or not.

The underside lip of anything is a good idea to check. Anthing that you can run your hands under and over could be the spot.

You could ask the local cops. They perform searches all the time. They are really good at total searches. They could help.

[Jim Bremner]

Toe area of shoes.

[MarkRobinson]

Thanks again for the ideas: I'm writing them down.

Linens: checked, but can check again as we pack them up.
coat, shorts, & pants pockets: checked.
between matresses: checked.
Toes of shoes: checked
inside printer: can check again: half-assed it.
buried: possible, though not sure he'd chance forgetting it that way.

He was strong enough to climb on the tractor & mow: so I checked the tractor & other places, still no sign of it. Frustrating. His son is in Florida & with wife/family/career, cannot merely drive there in 1.5 hours as I can to look for it.

[Aggie93]

attic?

car?

thinking it would be somewhere the maid would not clean - didn't clean the shelter.

[VINMAN]

Mark, sorry for your loss.

It's under the big "W'....




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[GWN7]

No idea where the watch is but I'd defrost the bar fridge freezer. Lots of older people hide cash in them under the ice cube trays. They figure if there is a fire the ice will protect the cash.

Good luck on the watch....

[CROWSC]

Look in any luggage that might be around.

[vash]

we have checked the old man's wrist right?

[MarkRobinson]

"under the big "W""??

will de-thaw, good idea (for other items besides the watch). We plan to pack up in boxes small areas at a time: see if we can find it by process of elimination.

My aunt hasn't seen the watch in a few weeks: he took it off to hide from the maid & never brought it back out of hiding.

Mark

[pharlap71]

Mark, I was thinking it might not be a bad idea to contact the police and tell them whats going on just to get a police report and contact Rolex and get the serial number just in case it ever shows up in a pawn shop. I remember a few years back an English guy killed someone and took over his idenity for years. He dumped his body in the ocean, someone finally found the body, so decomposed the only way they identified it was the guy didn't remove his Rolex when he dumped him. They contacted Rolex, uncovered the whole thing because the dummy didn't take the Rolex.

[MarkRobinson]

Good point: couldn't hurt. Thanks for sharing.

Mark

[willtel]

Originally Posted by Hugh R

I'd delete this if I were you.

Too late. I'm already en-route to georgia/canada to pick up my new Rolex!