Husband Digs Through 10 Tons of Trash for 100-Year-Old Ring

When a Brooklyn woman accidentally threw away her engagement ring—a century-old family heirloom once hidden in her great-grandmother-in-law's mouth to escape the Soviet Union—her husband refused to let it go.

He dove into 20,000 pounds of garbage and, with help from a kindhearted sanitation worker, found it.