NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. -- Eve and Steven Greene made a simple plea to the
burglar who broke into their house: Keep the valuables. Return the
cremated remains of their 4-year-old son.

"Just drop it off somewhere with a note on it," Steven Greene said. "And
that'll be that."

It worked.


Someone left the urn containing the ashes of 4-year-old Zachary Greene
at the end of the Greenes' driveway Wednesday morning, two days after it
was taken in a burglary.

Police said a burglar broke into the home, snacked on Cheerios and
tracked mud all over the house as he filled pillowcases with about
$10,000 worth of valuables -- and Zachary's ashes.

Zachary died of cancer in 2005. His parents kept the urn above their
fireplace next to a Play Doh fire truck Zachary made before he died.

You made me cry, thank God the thief had a heart,,,
Thanks for sharing... D

your welcome, sorry la not my intention

Nice to know that some thieves have a heart.

if he had really had a heart (not just guilt) they would have returned
it all.

You would think if the thief had a heart, he or she wouldn't have done
it in the first place. Sounds like that family has been threw enough!

Sad that it happen to them but at least he did at least return the one
thing that was priceless!!