King’s Ransom
Clip: Season 4 Episode 4 | 9m 6sVideo has Closed Captions
A king’s ransom and a pirates’ raid—the story dug from a rare coin buried in Rhode Island.
A king’s ransom, murder and mayhem on the high seas. It may sound like "Treasure Island," but it is actually a story unfolding in Rhode Island after a Warwick man finds a rare Arabic coin buried in a local pick-your-own strawberry field in Middletown. The intriguing true tale of a bold and bloody raid and the pirate detector who is hot on the trail of a 300-year-old cold case is still unfolding.
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King’s Ransom
Clip: Season 4 Episode 4 | 9m 6sVideo has Closed Captions
A king’s ransom, murder and mayhem on the high seas. It may sound like "Treasure Island," but it is actually a story unfolding in Rhode Island after a Warwick man finds a rare Arabic coin buried in a local pick-your-own strawberry field in Middletown. The intriguing true tale of a bold and bloody raid and the pirate detector who is hot on the trail of a 300-year-old cold case is still unfolding.
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