Amanda Rutherford, aged 46 from Junction City, Kansas, has been sentenced to six years in prison for stealing $400,000 worth of gold and silver collector coins from an elderly couple. In 2022, law enforcement in Dickinson County received reports of the theft from a couple in their late eighties who lived in a farmhouse where Rutherford was an informal caretaker. In March 2024, authorities learned that Rutherford had sold 235 rare coins at a jewelry store in Liberty, Missouri, receiving checks totaling $100,000. A police search of her vehicle uncovered $95,400 in cash and additional stolen coins, which the couple identified. After pleading guilty in November, she was sentenced to prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $165,000 in restitution.