A Chicago treasure hunter was on the trail of a hidden chest worth more than $1 million — but she says she was hacked and her ‘solve stolen’

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https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-nw-treasure-chest-rocky-mountains-forrest-fenn-20200608-xltbeao5zvbkjiby732x73fhxe-story.html

By KATHERINE ROSENBERG-DOUGLAS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
June 08, 2020

A bronze chest filled with gold, jewels and other valuables worth more 
than $1 million and hidden a decade ago in the Rocky Mountain wilderness 
has been found, according to a famed art and antiquities collector who 
created the treasure hunt.

Forrest Fenn, 89, told the Santa Fe New Mexican on Sunday that a man who 
did not want his name released — but was from “back East” — located the 
chest a few days ago and the discovery was confirmed by a photograph the 
man sent him.

The discovery was a shock for attorney Barbara Anderson, 47, a treasure 
hunter and resident of Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood, who believed 
herself to be the “lead solver.”

Andersen alleges she was hacked and her “solve stolen” by a man she didn’t 
know who’d been taunting her with texts in recent months, according to a 
lawsuit she filed Monday in Santa Fe. The defendants in her suit are the 
unnamed man and Fenn, the orchestrator of the treasure hunt.

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