• Marlborough Police are seeking the public's help in identifying a couple from a photograph found in a matchbook with stolen jewelry.
• The jewelry, discovered in 2014, is believed to have been stolen during a break-in and but left behind in a city apartment.
• Police hope that by sharing the photo on social media, someone will recognize the couple and help reunite them with their belongings.

MARLBOROUGH — Investigators are hoping the power of social media will help them return jewelry found more than a decade ago to its rightful owners.

Marlborough Police on Friday posted on their Facebook page a photo of a couple that was found inside a matchbook in a bag of jewelry found in 2014, according to Sgt. Scott DeCiero.

“We kind of started going through some old property, old evidence we had, and we had this old matchbook, so we decided to post it,” DeCiero said Friday.

DeCiero said the jewelry — a mix of necklaces, rings, bracelets, earrings and charms — is believed to have been stolen. In 2014, some people “known to police” due to previous break-ins were evicted from a city apartment. After they left, the landlord went through the apartment and found a pillowcase full of the jewelry.

DeCiero said investigators at the time sent the photo of the couple — a young man and a woman — to surrounding departments but came up empty.

The photo was found inside a matchbook for Korday Studio Wedding Photographers of Framingham. The studio, according to Daily News archives, was founded in 1956 by Elliot Korklan. He sold the business in 1986. Korday Studios is no longer open, but it's unclear when it closed.

Police are using social media in effort to find rightful jewelry owner

DeCiero said Marlborough Police didn’t have a Facebook page in 2014, and did not think of using social media back then to try to find the jewelry's rightful owners.

“It wasn’t as popular back then as it is now,” he said.

Police are hoping someone recognizes the couple and reaches out to them so they can return the jewelry to its owners.

“If we can return some property to the rightful owners that would be a good thing,” DeCiero said.

Anyone with information is asked to call DeCiero at 508-485-1212, Ext. 36953, or send a private message on the department’s Facebook page.

Norman Miller can be reached at 508-626-3823 or nmiller@wickedlocal.com. For up-to-date public safety news, follow him on X @Norman_MillerMW or on Facebook at facebook.com/NormanMillerCrime.