Someone Found the SeekTexas Treasure. They Won’t Get the $70,000 Prize.

For nearly a year, thousands of treasure hunters have been scouring Texas in search of a small, wax-covered box stamped with an X. Inside is a three-inch nickel medallion that entitles the finder to about $70,000 in gold and cash. On the evening of April 8, one of those searchers found it. But they will not be able to claim the prize.Fort Worth accountant K C Wright and his 94-year-old mother, Liz, launched the contest last June by publishing a mysterious coffee-table book with clues to the box’s location. On Wednesday, KC learned that the medallion had been moved, thanks to an electronic tracking device he had placed in the box. Shortly afterward, he received a DM on Facebook Messenger from a family who claimed…

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