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The Locket That Rewrote a Family: Secret Mother, Hidden Child

A worn sterling silver locket bought at a pawnshop in Dellard unlocked a sixty-three-year secret: inside, a photograph of Norma Holmes holding an infant and an inscription reading "For Lily. So she remembers." Who wrote that note, and why was Norma's image tucked into a shoebox that belonged to a man who never remarried?

In this episode, we follow the chain of people and objects that connect a pawnshop, a storage unit and a three-page letter found in a box - tracing how a single call to a niece set off DNA tests, family searches and the discovery of a buried story. How did a locket, a shoebox and an 81-year-old trucker’s files become the threads that pull two families together?

Person: Glenn Holmes
Person: Gina Perry
Person: Bev Ostrander
Person: Pete Ostrander
Date: February 2019

- The locket was placed on the pawnshop counter by Bev Ostrander on a Tuesday in February 2019.
- Glenn Holmes was 53 years old and had run the pawnshop for 11 years when he found the locket.
- Bev Ostrander was 58 and had brought the locket from her late father Pete Ostrander’s belongings.
- Within six weeks of the locket arriving, a consumer DNA test showed Bev and Glenn shared 23% of their genetic material.
- The shoebox that held the locket also contained a three-page handwritten letter found eight weeks after the locket surfaced.

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