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[quote=Anonymous]OP here. To clarify a handful of things:
(1) We know Susie is not telling us the whole truth. It’s possible some pieces are still at FIL’s but from what she showed us via video, she has several of the pieces that would have been together in a box but somehow “never had” the others. 
(2) Susie is FIL’s niece, was MIL’s niece by marriage. The “family line” would not run to niece but rather to MIL’s side, so none of this would have been Susie’s ancestor’s jewelry. 
(3) Most of what is missing is gold and precious gemstone rings, gold and diamond, gold and pearl. We have photos of everything and there are numerous high value items missing. 
(4) The value of what Susie acknowledges she has is in the tens of thousands, solely on weight of gold alone, never mind any additional value in the vintage/antique settings or the precious gems.  
(5) MIL was a compulsive shopper with very high end taste (because “she deserved it”).  She spent A LOT on jewelry, and her husband also gave her fine jewelry for gifts for decades (again, because “she deserved it”). 
(6) Missing items include new-in-box-with-tags diamond earrings, many other new-with-tags gold and gemstone items. We know this from photos. What we saw in Susie’s videos was that she clearly has a number of these earrings and she’d liberated them from their packages and had been wearing them. We think she just decided it was all hers, incorporated it into her life, and doesn’t want to admit what else she has or what she’s done with the rest.

So yeah, long way of saying I don’t think there’s any doubt she has/had more than she claims and is now lying about it (or “creatively remembering”). I doubt anything else is recoverable from her. For my husband, it’s a lot more about the principle of the whole thing, but then again he is also ticked that she walked out of his elderly dad’s house with easily $50K+ worth of jewelry and never returned it despite promising to do so. What kind of person does that? And, what she has/had is worth real money that could be college tuition for kids. So, no idea what he will do once we see what Susie’s next step is. I think we will send her photos and ask her to carefully search her closets and drawers and think VERY hard, as it seems more went home with her than will now be returning, and last we heard she was the one who had it all.

Ugh. Dishonest people suck. [/quote]

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