PETERSBURG, Mich. -- A retired Michigan autoworker looked at a Facebook message after midnight from a stranger: Did you lose your wallet years ago?

"If so," a Minnesota man wrote, "it was in the engine bay of a car."

Richard Guilford couldn't believe what he was reading on his phone - a decade-old mystery was remarkably solved.

Guilford's tri-fold leather wallet - stuffed with $15, a driver's license, work ID, gift cards worth $275 and lottery tickets - had turned up under the hood of a car in a repair shop in Lake Crystal, Minnesota.

Richard Guilford poses for a portrait with an ID card from his recently recovered wallet that he lost 11 years ago Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025, in Petersburg, Mich. AP Photo/Ryan Sun

A Christmas gift from Guilford's sons was suddenly a family treasure a

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