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She Finds a Locket That Rewrites Her Entire Family: The Sandra McCarthy Case
She Finds a Locket That Rewrites Her Entire Family: The Sandra McCarthy Case
A forty-dollar silver locket engraved with a fern and the name Elaine inside, sold at a pawnshop in winter 2019, led to adoption records that rewired one woman's origin story - and the discovery took county archives, a river, a pawnshop, and a four-hour drive to piece together. How did a single locket connect Dennis Kowalski’s late mother, a box pulled from river roots, and a woman who believed she’d always known who she was?
In this episode, we follow the chain of events from Dennis opening the locket on Merchant…
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