HALL COUNTY, GA (WSB/CNN) - A frantic search took place at an Atlanta-area landfill after a woman realized she mistakenly threw $100,000 worth of diamond jewelry in the trash.
"If his times was spot on, I know that there was a great chance that we could find this right here," one employee said.
After nearly three hours of sifting through nearly 10 tons of trash, forward and back, they found the three diamond rings and a diamond tennis bracelet.
Timing was everything in the hunt Friday at the Candler Road landfill, where truck after truck bring and dump about 300 tons of trash a day.
A team of five landfill employees worked to find the jewelry.
From the frantic phone call, they narrowed down the trash arrival - with one woman's treasure arriving in a specific 20-minute window.
"We dumped it here because we (were) going to try and go through it," an employee said.
Timing truly is everything. Had the phone call come in a few minutes later and had that window of time been off by a few minutes, that trash would've been dumped at the face of the landfill, and that woman's jewelry would be gone forever.
"We went the extra to try to make sure that if it was in that can, we was going to find it," an employee said.
Their one clue to go on - the trash bag was black.
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