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Everglades snake hunter finds plane crash jewelry

The piece is a partially melted pendant with a Celtic cross inside a diamond circle.
Mark Rubinstein and some friends found it while hunting for pythons in the ‘glades not far from Miami.
The area they were hunting is the site where more than 200 people died in two separate plane crashes. One was in 1972 when an Eastern airlines L-1011 went down. Then in 1996 a ValuJet flight nosedived into the same area killing all 109 people on board.
Rubinstein may be a macho snake hunter but he isn’t a man without feelings. He won’t be trying to sell the piece, he wants to give it to a family member of the person who lost it.
The Palm Beach Post reports If he can’t find a relative, Rubenstein wants to donate the pendant to a museum or the Archdiocese.
Mark said of the jewelry "it was part of a situation that caused so much sorrow." He went on “it didn’t belong to the swamp and it doesn’t belong to me."
Jewelers estimate the pendant is worth around $1,500 in cash but Rubenstein thinks the value is limitless to a family member.

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