Excellent summary. The t-shirt company went through great lengths to find the body. They contacted a medical examiner in Georgia who autopsied the bear. He told them it was gifted to Chattahoochee River National Rec. Turns out a wildfire threat caused an evacuation in the 90’s so the bear was moved into temporary storage. It was discovered a month later that someone had stolen the bear along with other items. That’s when Waylon Jennings comes into play. The thief had taken the items to a pawn shop. The owner contacted Jennings to tell him the cocaine story and asked if he’d be interested in buying it. He took him up on the offer. For unknown reasons he took it to Las Vegas where it lived with a coke dealer until his death. The t-shirt people found out it was sold at auction and managed to get the list of buyers. They saw it was sold to a Chinese man who owned a medicine shop. The man had since passed but his wife was alive. They contacted her and explained everything. Neither she nor her husband knew of the bear’s history. They then asked if she’d be willing to part with it. She told them it always creeped her out and she’d give it to them for free if they’d pay for shipping. And that’s how Cocaine Bear ended up back in Kentucky wearing cool hats as the t-shirt shop’s mascot. The end.