
Her searching did not end in vain. After four years searching, she came across a site, "Antique Roadshows" which described a missing masterpiece stolen in 1989. The painting was known later as "Tres personajes", an abstract masterpiece by Rufino Tamaya (1899-1991).
The woman received $15,000 for returning the painting plus percentage from the painting selling which was sold to an unidentified American private collector for $1,049,000. This painting was originally bought by a Houston collector for $55,000 before it went missing when he was moving house.