Tyler Schaefer, and his father Cody checked into the Hilton Kansas City Airport Saturday night and a few moments later, the 10-year old found stacks of cash in a drawer, reported the Kansas City Star.
The cash totaled $10,000 and currently, no one has claimed it. Cody and Tyler turned the cash into the police and if no one can prove legal ownership, the money could go to the Schaefers.
"He looks for stuff at random," Cody said. "He's very observant."
When they found the neatly stacked cash, they thought about to do with it and came up with scenarios as to why it was left in the drawer.
"We didn't know what to do at first," Cody said.
Upon inspection, he saw that the bills bore the legal watermark and guessed they had come from a bank. He knew they had to turn it in.
"We need to call the cops," Cody told his son, who agreed.
Sgt. Randy Francis, a property and evidence supervisor logged the report and stored the cash at a police facility. He said in his 13 years of experience, the largest amount of money he'd seen surrendered was $1,000. In that instance, he said, no one claimed the cash and finder kept it.
"I think I would know I was missing $10,000 pretty quick," he said.
Missouri statutes say that lost money can be returned to the finder after seven months if nobody can prove legal ownership of the money.
Cody is a truck driver and Kansas City sits in the middle of his and his ex-wife's home. Every year, they meet there to Cody can pick up his three children for summer vacation.
He said Tyler is a cub scout who loves scavenger hunts, the Pirates of the Caribbean movies and searching for buried treasure.
