contractor discovered half a million dollars worth of cash forgotten behind a bathroom wall but was not allowed to keep it in two thousand and six bob kits a builder from ohio was hired to renovate the bathroom of an old friend named amanda reese while tearing down a wall he discovered hidden boxes filled with an amazing treasure of over five hundred thousand dollars in cash in shock he immediately called amanda they briefly celebrated and took pictures but their fortune quickly turned into a nightmare bob wanted forty percent but amanda refused and offered him ten percent he ended up suing her and invoked a finders keepers law however this made the dispute public and prompted the descendants of the home's previous owner to claim ownership of the money in the end it was split between bob who got three and a half thousand dollars and the previous owners twenty one descendants who got the rest amanda wasn't awarded any money and even had to sell the home and file for bankruptcy soon after how do you think the money should have been split