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DAVE BENSCOTER: For 24 years, I was in federal law enforcement. KING: He has worked for the FBI and the IRS. These days, though, Benscoter calls himself a fruit detective. BENSCOTER: I search for lost and rare apples. SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: He is the founder of the Lost Apple Project. It recently helped find seven types of apples that were thought to be extinct. They were rediscovered in old orchards in Washington, Oregon and Idaho. They taste great, we hear, and have great names like the Ivan...

Updated June 11, 2021 at 5:39 PM ET David Benscoter was a criminal investigator at the FBI and IRS for 24 years before transitioning to his new role:

Apr 21, 2021 6:23 AM North America once had 17,000 named varieties of domesticated apples. Today, only 4,500 are known to exist. However, all is not lost: the Lost Apple Project, working from evidence that settlers planted several hundred varieties in the Pacific Northwest, has scoured their trails to try to find heirs of those trees. A team of Lost Apple investigators rediscovered 10 apple varieties that had been thought extinct, found in 140-year-old orchards in canyons and forests in Idaho a...

Why Apple Detectives Are Tracking Down Lost Varieties Dec 21, 2020 Behold a Streaked Pippin! The phrase “lost and found” is being imbued with fresh meaning thanks to the Lost Apple Project.   Since 2014, the nonprofit organization has found 23 lost or nearly extinct apple varieties. At least 17,000 named varieties were once grown here after early colonists brought apples to America; today, there are just 5,000. The group seeks to iden...