Homeless man discovers he

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Max Melitzer was pushing a shopping cart filled with his personal belongings in Salt Lake City's Pioneer Park on Saturday when David Lundburg, a private investigator, approached him.

Lundburg told the homeless man that his financial situation was about to change.

Melitzer's brother died of cancer last year and left him a "significant" amount of money.

Lundberg was hired to track down Melitzer after the family lost contact with him in September.

The manager of Salt Lake's City Rescue Mission confirmed that Melitzer often stayed at the mission when not trekking to Ogden. A tip from a KSL listener

 

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A homeless man from Utah has failed to show up in New York to claim the sizable inheritance from his brother.

ALBANY, N.Y. -- A homeless man from Utah has failed to show up in New York to claim the sizable inheritance from his brother.

The Daily Gazette of Schenectady reports that Max Melitzer was supposed to arrive Thursday at the Albany bus station, where his cousin Richard Goldfarb was waiting for him. But the newspaper reports that Melitzer wasn't on any of the buses that pulled into the station.

The successful search for Melitzer made international headlines last week when a private investigator hired by his family's law firm tracked him down on the streets of Salt Lake City and informed him that his brother had left him a sizeable estate.

Morris Melitzer of Schenectady died in April 2010. The 66-year-old General Electric plant worker died of pancreatic cancer. The Daily Gazette says his estate is worth $100,000.