Stash from the past: recycling plant employees find $100K hidden inside 1980s TV

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The 1980s television set had been dropped off at Global Electric Electronic Processing over a year ago.

Together with the paperwork dating back to 1985, were bundles of cash amounting to 10 times more than the employee first thought.

"We do anywhere from 10,000 to 30,000 televisions a month, so the odds that that TV came at that particular moment with that woman, she opened it up, started dismantling it and finding the cash box - it's like finding the lottery."

Together with the paperwork dating back to 1985, were bundles of cash amounting to some $100,000 that had gone undetected inside an old television for nearly 30 years.

"These big box TVs from the 1980s have lots of space in the back. So you just unscrew the back, take the casing off and there's lots of space," Rodgers said.

"I don't think it was an uncommon thing to put valuables in the back of a TV back then."

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