Patricia Walker tells Eight on Your Side she’ll drive from Tennessee next week to Pinellas County so she can take her son’s ashes home after workers discovered his urn mysteriously floating in the water of a Tarpon Springs marina.
Alex Carman says the blue marble urn containing the cremains of Patrick Vosbein was bobbing in the Port Tarpon Marina last Thursday. Vosbein died in a December 2011 DUI crash that ended up sending the driver Garrett Bruce to prison for manslaughter.
Carman recovered the urn and contacted Eight on Your side to help find the “rightful” owner.
“I just can’t get over that someone would dispose of someone’s remains,” Carman said last week.
Walker says can’t wait to get her hands on the 1/3 share of ashes entrusted to Leah Selevan, the former fiance of her son.
She has another share of her son’s cremains back in Tennessee and the third share is in a family tomb in Louisiana near Vosbein’s father.
“It will be like I have him home,” Walker said “Like I have my baby back home.”
Walker can’t understand how the urn that belonged to her son’s fiance ended up floating in the Marina, and she finds it very upsetting. But Walker also takes it as a sign from her deceased son.
“That’s why he floated up in the marina,” said Walker “He wants to come home he wants to be home with mama.”
Selevan has not returned repeated phone calls or responded to Eight on Your Side business cards left at her Tarpon Springs home to explain how the urn ended up in the marina adjacent to the Tarpon River. Her home is on the opposite side of the river.
Walker has contacted Tarpon Springs about the recovered urn but police have not decided whether it merits an investigation.
Meanwhile, Walker says she’s incredibly grateful to Carman for recovering this portion of her son’s cremains. “He’s my angel on this Earth,” Walker said.
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