He wrote: "I am the legitimate finder and owner of the treasure, and no person has any remotely valid claim against me," adding that "I have never hacked or stalked the plaintiff or any person, nor have I been charged with or arrested for any crime in my life."įenn's grandson also confirmed the name on a website about the treasure hunt. He also addressed the lawsuits, calling them "an abuse of the court system." "I don’t think Forrest wanted his chase to be defined by negativity, and neither do I." "When Forrest began the hunt, he never imagined it would go viral, so he never expected many of the unintended consequences that came," he wrote. Stuef on Monday also published a long statement on Medium. She sought the court to turn the chest over to her. One lawsuit, filed by a Chicago attorney, alleges she had spent years looking for treasure, too, but her emails were hacked, various new organizations have reported.
Since the treasure was uncovered, others have claimed they were the rightful finders. It got so bad in 2017, that a news outlet reported New Mexico State Police Chief Pete Kassetas called the treasure hunt, which by that point had led to two deaths, "stupid" and asked Fenn to end it. He later wrote about the hunt in a book, "The Thrill of the Chase." The treasure was estimated to be worth $1-2 million. In 2017, a body was found in New Mexico that appeared to be Paris Wallace of Grand Junction, Colorado, a pastor who went missing while searching for the treasure. The year before, the body of Randy Bilyeu, 54, was found months after he disappeared while looking for the treasure along the Rio Grande.įenn set up the treasure hunt and provided clues to where it was in 2010 in a 24-line poem.
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