Stolen Camera with Wedding Photos Shows up a Year Later

"My reaction, I almost cried," Boesen said. "I'm thinking, this bride is going to be so overjoyed when she finds out."

Inside the case, Mason found the contact information for Charles Boesen, a photographer for Lifetime Image Inc.

Inside the case, Mason found the contact information for Charles Boesen, a photographer for Lifetime Image Inc.

 
"My reaction, I almost cried," Boesen said. "I'm thinking, this bride is going to be so overjoyed when she finds out."

"Back down in the ditch over here, he sees a backpack," Mason said. "When he opened up the camera, I looked at it and said, 'Wow, um, this is an expensive piece of equipment. We need to figure out whose this is.' "

Last week a man cutting down trees on a vacant lot near Lake Winnecone spotted the camera, said Leslie Mason, the man's mother.

Last week a man cutting down trees on a vacant lot near Lake Winnecone spotted the camera, said Leslie Mason, the man's mother.

 
"Back down in the ditch over here, he sees a backpack," Mason said. "When he opened up the camera, I looked at it and said, 'Wow, um, this is an expensive piece of equipment. We need to figure out whose this is.' "

 
Inside the case, Mason found the contact information for Charles Boesen, a photographer for Lifetime Image Inc.

 
"My reaction, I almost cried," Boesen said. "I'm thinking, this bride is going to be so overjoyed when she finds out."

"We just thought, 'Oh well, we've got our memories,"' Karen said.

The Menasha couple tried to be strong when they found out the camera had disappeared.

"This is truly, truly amazing," said Karen Nordlinder, who married Tory Nordlinder last summer.

MENASHA, Wis. (AP) - A couple who thought their wedding pictures were gone forever got a joyous surprise last week when the photographer's camera, which was stolen less than an hour after the ceremony, was discovered in a vacant lot nearly a year later.