How the Tommie camera owner was found

Looks like the woman who found the camera with pictures linked to the University of St. Thomas has finally found the owners.

As reported before, Tami Thye-Harold of Colorado found a camera in a seat on a United Airlines plane and tried for months to track down its owners.

The camera contained photos of two people, and the woman recognized, among other things, a University of St. Thomas magnet on the fridge in the background. She contacted the school, which put the story on its online bulletin.

KSTP now reports:

A woman saw the story and pictures in the University’s bulletin and recognized the people in the photos as her son and future daughter-in-law.

The woman contacted her son, who then contacted Thye-Harold. They couldn’t believe she had the camera after all this time.

Thye-Harold took down their address and will be shipping the camera back to them.

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Alex Friedrich

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Alex Friedrich reports on higher education issues for MPR News. Among the stories he has covered: the fall of the Berlin Wall, aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, 2003 Moscow suicide bombing and 2004 presidential elections in the Republic of Georgia. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Georgia and a master’s in European political economy from the London School of Economics.