GULF SHORES, Ala. (WALA) – A mysterious urn which washed ashore in Gulf Shores earlier this month has had police searching for solutions since. It was April 17, 2025 when some beachgoers got here throughout it and referred to as police. That thriller was solved earlier immediately when police spoke with subsequent of kin of the deceased lady.
“That might freak me out. I’d name authorities instantly,” Mike Davis emphatically acknowledged, had he been the one to search out the urn.
That’s precisely what Gulf Shores Police stated involved beachgoers did once they got here throughout a mysterious field washed up on the seashore within the 1600 block of West Seaside Boulevard close to Little Lagoon Go. That was on April seventeenth and police have been making an attempt to resolve the thriller since.
It was quickly clear the ornately adorned field was an urn, seemingly nonetheless holding somebody’s ashen stays. Police took to social media, hoping for the general public’s assist.
“Fortunately, info got here our method from individuals who stated, in the event you look contained in the urn, there could also be a disk in there. You might be able to get a lead from there,” stated Detective Carl Wittstruck with Gulf Shores Police.
In truth, there was a marker, main police to a crematory in Ohio. Whereas police waited on extra info, there was a lot hypothesis by each police and the general public on who it was and the way it received right here.
“It may very well be off a ship that received capsized. It may very well be any person’s final want to be throwed on the market,” contemplated Robbin McComb as he fished on the move. “I imply, there’s quite a few issues it may very well be however what it’s, I don’t know.”
“That’s fascinating. I’d like to search out out what’s occurring and the way she ended up within the water within the first place,” Mike Davis stated. “Perhaps she was on a ship and so they misplaced her someway, by chance. Perhaps she received washed overboard. There’s no telling.”
No telling till there may be. The crematory in Ohio recognized the stays and subsequent of kin contacted Gulf Shores Police Monday, April 28, 2025, clearing up the thriller.
“The deceased had requested that her closing resting place be the water, whether or not or not it’s the ocean or the gulf and it simply so occurred {that a} nephew of the household comes all the way down to Gulf Shores regularly and took the relations down right here to place the urn into the gulf,” Wittstruck defined.
The household did that on April fifteenth from the tip of Gulf State Park Pier. It was two days later that the stays washed ashore three and a half miles to the west neat Little Lagoon Go. Plans are already being made to return the stays to the household.
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