Mom: Thieves Took Urn With Son's Ashes

I don't like to make fun of dead people, but isn't Darrol Bingman the worst name you've ever heard?
Mom: Thieves Took Urn With Son's Ashes
Local12.com


A local mother asks for help to get back something she can't replace... her son's ashes.

Barbara Covia says the urn was stolen during a burglary. Local 12 reporter Jessica Donnellon talked with the Covington woman who said this is not the first time this has happened.

Covia says the urn is about the size of a phone book and on the front of it is a gold plate with her son's name, Darrold Bingman, engraved on it.

Barbara says the urn was one of several things taken from her home. However, she says the ashes are only valuable to her and she hopes the crook will bring them back.

The burglar broke in through a kitchen window on the backside of her apartment on Welsh Drive in Covington, just over a week ago. Covia says the thief took her social security card, her birth certificate, money, a diamond watch, several jewelry boxes and the urn.

Covia says this is not the first time her son's ashes have been stolen. She says her son was murdered about 14 years ago out in Phoenix, Arizona. Darrold was shot during a robbery at a gas station where he had stopped to cash a check. His ashes were stolen a few months later.

Barbara says she went to a television station out there to ask for help and she got the ashes back about three years later. She hopes someone will return them again.

If you have any information that could help police, call CrimeStoppers at 352-3040. Remember, you don't have to give your name to get cash for your clues.