The Fenn Treasure

48 Hours

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True Crime, News, Tv & Film, Cbs

3.9 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Millionaire Forrest Fenn hid a gold-filled chest somewhere in the Rockies and wrote a poem with cryptic clues. Tens of thousands searched for it and five people died trying. A story of obsession. "CBS Mornings" co-host Tony Dokoupil reports for "48 Hours."

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0:03.6	All my years as a profiler I studied killers, but I never studied what a pandemic would do to them.
0:09.0	We started communicating to become better predators.
0:12.6	The deeper you dig.
0:14.2	These aren't just connected cases.
0:16.5	This is a serial killing network.
0:18.4	The darker it gets.
0:19.9	There isn't enough time.
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0:38.9	I think Forrest wanted to become a legend.
0:41.6	And I actually think he succeeded.
0:43.8	He was described as a modern day Indiana Jones.
0:48.6	Forrest came up with the idea to hide a bronze chest,
0:52.6	filled with gold, somewhere in the Rocky Mountains.
0:56.8	I bought this beautiful little treasure chest,
0:59.0	and I started filling it up with wonderful things.
1:01.6	There's 265 gold coins, hundreds and hundreds of gold nuggets.
1:06.6	He wrote a 24-line poem, guiding people to the location of the treasure.
1:13.6	Yeah, that's exactly it.
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