“Like Having Him Back”

Nina Totenberg, NPR's legal affairs correspondent, took the call. The FBI, McKeogh told her, believed it had recovered her father's violin.

A second expert later confirmed it was the Ames. The woman who found it gave it up voluntarily and faced no charges.

Manhattan. August 6, 2015.

At the U.S. Attorney's Office, Nina, Jill and Amy see their father's Stradivarius for the first time since 1980.

“Today we celebrate the Totenberg family's reunion with a priceless family heirloom,” says U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.

For Nina, it felt “in some way like having him back.”