Woman reunited with $30,000 engagement ring 14 years later

In 1997, a New Mexico woman lost her engagement ring.

This past week, the woman, who doesn't want her name published, was reunited with the 3-carat pear-shaped diamond.

Santa Fe police announced a few weeks ago that the ring, which had been in their possession for more than two years, would be auctioned off if no one claimed it. Police say 25 eager-but-unsuccessful claims were were made before the rightful owner provided the receipt for the long-lost ring and a photo of her wearing it.

"First words out of her mouth were, 'This is my ring,'" Lieutenant Louis Carlos said of the woman who bought the ring in 1997 on credit.

The woman's fiance at the time promised to make payments on it. She claims that shortly after the ring disappeared, so did he. The bill she was stuck with, which included a list of the "used" ring's flaws, helped her claim her ring.

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