Australian TV hostess...
...moved into a house in a "nice" Brisbane suburb in 1988 and looking through the attic unearthed a collection of vinyl LPs.
Pretty ordinairy really except that they were all by a well known (in his time) Australian musician and all signed with a message to a well known TV hostess. There was also a small collection of mildly amorous love letters.

A neighbour told me that the TV hostess had owned our house in the early 70s so we contacted Channel 9 and she contacted us.
We met and gave everything back - she thought she had lost them in the great flood of 1974 and was well pleased to get them back.
"Sentimental value I guess?" I asked her. "Oh no" she replied "the albums are worth a fortune as he never gave autographs. I'll probably sell them".

Nice reward for me of $zero and learning how honesty doesn't pay.
I reckon I could have made a few bucks selling the love letters to the gossip mags too.
(emadex thinks the world will end on, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 2:20, Reply)