The entry "stuck a chord" in Watson and the 23 other HID teachers enlisted to help read though the piles of handwritten and typed entries, he said. In addition to giving the two first-place winners each a loose diamond, valued at HID on sale other entries were selected to be recognized through a gift of a garnet or amethyst gemstone. The runners-up are invited to bring their mothers into the store in the coming weeks to collect their prize, Watson said. However, before they can collect their prize, the students must first read their entries out loud to bring forth the true value of the contest, HID sale said. "Any mom will tell you, those essays are worth a million dollars -- way more than any diamond," Watson said.It's an unsolved mystery with all the ingredients of a best-selling true crime book. A gruesome Discount Elsa Peretti double Hollywood murder that remains unsolved today, a multi-million dollar scam on Wall Street, a Playboy Bunny and former girlfriend of Hugh Hefner, and millions of dollars worth of jewelry that suddenly disappeared. And in the middle of it: an unassuming man who graduated with honors as salutatorian from Weatherly Area High School in 1995. A former high school principal once described him as a "very conservative high school kid who had unusually high morals who believed rules should be followed. If you want to pick the ideal kid that you've had as a student, he'd be the kid."
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