Burglar Dumps Man's Ashes On Front Lawn

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A Cape Coral man’s vehicle was ransacked and the ashes of his dead father were dumped in his front lawn, authorities said.

Wayne C. Carraway, 35, believes a burglar broke into his 1987 Ford Bronco and mistook a cedar box containing a plastic bag full of his father’s ashes for drugs.

“I’m just trying to think about what they thought when they opened the box up and saw a baggie full of ashes,” said Carraway. “I almost wonder if they opened the baggie up and tasted it to see if it was drugs or something.”

Carraway’s father was killed in a traffic accident in 1995. He was planning to spread the ashes along the Fakahatchee Strand in the Florida Everglades, his father’s favorite fishing spot.

“He was an avid hunter and fisherman born and raised in Lee County,” said Carraway. “He loved it out there.”

But wildfires in the Everglades area postponed the trip last weekend and Carraway forgot to take his father’s remains from beneath a seat inside his Bronco.

“I normally keep the ashes in my bedroom,” said Carraway. “I shouldn’t have left them in the truck.”

Authorities said a burglar broke into the locked Bronco while it was parked outside Carraway’s home at 2016 N.W. First Place sometime between Sunday night and early Monday morning. Carraway, a construction worker, said there were power tools and fishing gear inside the Bronco, but nothing was stolen.

“It could have been some kids looking for money or change or cigarettes or whatever,” he said. “I don’t know why they would do that. It just kills me.”

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