No Response

Though Baltzell’s post was being shared by people on Facebook, he was not getting his desired response. No single soul was able to identify the wallets. He thought that the owners were not alive anymore hence the identification process would never get successful.

Interviews

“We’ve been working on this building for six months. I’ve been kind of waiting for that really cool thing that nobody’s seen in the last 75 or 100 years to pop out”, Baltzell explained to CNN in an interview. He added, the pastor added, “I think I’ve watched one too many episodes of CSI and stuff. So I like the mystery and the intrigue of it all.” He told every detail of the discovery and was waiting for the results but, to his dismay, nothing was coming up.

The Hope

In an interview, Baltzell informed KSDK News “My Facebook post has been shared a thousand times, then two thousand, then three thousand times.” “People are commenting, so actually a lot of people reached out, and it’s relatives.”

Conclusion?

Baltzell’s treasure story became a sensation in his town. He was being asked by many media sources about the items that the plumber discovered. Adding more to the information, Baltzell told KSDK News, “The war was ending, you know, so there’s lots of things, [such as] pictures, from soldiers.” He concluded that due to the lack of valuables inside the purses, they ended up being hidden in the wall.

That Era!

Baltzell told the Miami Herald, a leading newspaper that “All the pictures seemed to be from 1945 and 1946. Best we can tell is that someone was stealing wallets and then ditched them behind the toilets in a heat vent.” The presence of those wallets was not known by anyone before their discovery in 2019.

Unaware Owner, Forgetful Culprit

Due to such a long period, Baltzell would never be able to catch or ever identify the alleged thief nor the owners of the wallets. The owners might have emigrated or passed away and could have forgotten the item which they once loved. After all, it has been roughly 75 years which is a very long time when their wallets got stolen.