greedy search for hidden loot theme

Someone is inordinately eager to enrich themself by finding and purloining a hidden treasure of one sort or the other. Often, though not necessarily, the treasure is something like pirate gold, or otherwise proceeds from illicit activity that has been stashed away by a criminal for later retrieval.

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StoryLevelMotivation
ahh3x03 choice Rusty Connors and Helen Krause both salivated at the thought of finding Mike's $56,000 hidden loot. They ended up betraying and killing each other over it.
columbo1971e10x09 choice The insurance investigator Irving Krutch, as well as a number of other people, murdered each other in attempts to get hold of fragments of a photo that reportedly would show where $4 million in loot was stashed.