Man dressed in drag breaks into Washington home, steals ashes

An Edmonds man is trying to identify the burglar who broke into his home dressed as a woman and stole his father’s ashes. William Crockett said a surveillance camera in his bedroom captured video of a man creeping inside his bedroom while he was at work on Tuesday morning. The burglar was wearing a woman’s dress, Crockett said. The burglar snatched a tablet computer and a chest that Crockett and his family used to hold their dad’s ashes, Crockett said. Crockett’s father died while cleaning up the damage at his home in New York in the days following Hurricane Sandy in 2012, he added.