I googled and it doesn’t appear he did but ya never know.
Donald was found. He was in bad shape and had been shown a great deal of neglect by his care giver. He was hospitalized with terrible case of Norwegian scabies and terrible bed soars and malnutrition. He is now in a nursing facility in Long Beach as they are still having trouble controlling the bed soars. He has all of his faculties and is doing much better. I am his grand-daughter. I found him with help of a private investigator. We lost contact with him when I was a teenager shortly after my grandmother passed. He was a very important part of my childhood memories and I am so thankful I can catch up with him.
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I see that filmyak is his niece, and she is still around. (Last post in May.)
No Filmyak is not his niece. Filmyak found the wallet.
Well, it took 7 years but we got the answer. Now all we need is for him to post and tell us how his wallet ended up in the wall. If he has all of his faculties, he should be able to tell us. I can’t be the only one who is still curious.
I must have misread one of her posts in another thread.
Well there you have it.
I can’t believe it’s been 7 years since the Lost Wallet thread.
Sorry to hear about the condition of your grandfather, brenhen, but happy to hear he’s doing better. Please keep us up to date.
Yes, she got a reply from a niece and quoted it in a post.
Good to know - thanks!
Brenhen, I hadn’t heard, congrats! As someone else stated, I was the one who found his wallet in the walls of my garage (in between studs, hidden behind the drywall). I live in Hollywood. Does he have ANY idea how his wallet may have ended up here?
Help us solve the mystery!!
Thank you!
Holy Smokes! I became interested in the Dope because of that Wallet.
Ditto. 7 years? How did that go by so quickly?
I got the thread update notice on the original thread and was wondering if it was a pointless zombification.
Glad to see there was actually new information. Thanks brenhen.
Just a random thought, but Mr. Ivens might have put the wallet there deliberately, for a variety of reasons - something between crippling dissatisfaction with his life and onset of of mental illness.
I am thinking of a similar situation where my father, in the depths of a second failing marriage, “lost” his wedding ring while building a concrete-block retaining wall. According to him, he found it missing after he’d built the wall, mixing load after load of mortar and sealing all the top holes… but something about his telling, and the situation, made us think that he’d deliberately buried it. Since it was the same ring he wore for decades with my mother, it’s always been of interest, and we know more or less exactly where it is… but as the house has passed to new owners there’s no good way to locate it and get it back.
It will provide a new mystery should anyone demolish that wall and find it.
I am preparing myself to be let down . . .
But hoping for some fun explanation.
Yeh, if we do get Donald’s account (assuming he even remembers), it’ll probably be along the lines of, “So that’s what happened to my wallet.”
Well, I just waded through all these threads. Intriguing. I’m glad his family was able to find him.
I’m also pleased the efforts of this board and its members helped long lost family members reconnect. Kudos.
Just read the threadS in entirety from the beginning.
Filmyak; I thought you said you’d tell the print media to take a hike, if they wanted the story only after you did the work.
But perhaps if you called them now, you could sell the story to them for the $200 you spent on the search (or maybe you should count again, and see that you spent <ahem> $615 
) .