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Cremated Remains Stolen From Sergeants Home

Written by DeadGirl
Friday, 30 December 2005
Cremated Remains Stolen From Sergeant's Home Woman Urges Alleged Thief To Return Ashes http://www.thebostonchannel.com/newsarchive/5556362/detail.html December 16, 2005 CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- A Cambridge, Mass., police sergeant Friday urged the person who allegedly broke into her home and stole her brother's ashes to return her loved one's remains. NewsCenter 5's Jorge Quiroga reported that Cambridge Police Department Sgt. Kathleen Murphy said that someone broke in through a back door and entered her apartment. "I came in (my apartment), and we were looking around. My daughter's laptop was sitting on a hutch, and I am looking around, and I think, 'Maybe they didn't take anything. Maybe they were scared off,'" Murphy said. "All of a sudden I looked up, and ashes -- the box was missing." A wooden box containing her brother's cremated remains was missing. "It's set up like a shrine. My brother was right (in this) cabinet. He was a unique individual. He kind of marched to the beat of a different drummer. I was the only one, and I said, 'I'll take him' when he was cremated. He's the first person in our family to be cremated," she said. Murphy lives in the apartment with her two teenage children. The thieves did not steal her daughter's computer, an expensive radio or even the gifts under the Christmas tree. The thieves took only a few CDs and the box containing Murphy's brother's ashes. "Whoever has it, I don't really care. I can be a victim like anyone else. It's only my house that they came into, and it is a weird feeling, but if we could only get the ashes back that's all I want. I don't want them ending up in a Dumpster," Murphy said. Murphy said that she was hoping that the thieves have a change of heart. She said they could drop off her brother's ashes on her front porch, at a police station or a fire station -- no questions asked.

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