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SALT LAKE CITY — Thieves broke into several cars in a Liberty Park neighborhood, taking something that means everything to the woman who lost it.
Megan Carter said she always locks her car because she knows thieves are on the prowl in her neighborhood, in the 400 East block of 1300 South. Around 5 a.m. Sunday, they stole a small silver locket from her car, and she’s desperate to get it back.
“No broken windows,” Carter said. She believes the theives knew what they were looking for and how to take it. Her neighbors woke her up after noticing someone breaking into their cars.
“They noticed all of our car doors were open,” Carter said.
She said she quickly looked inside to find the locket "was the only thing that was missing.”
Carter hung the locket from her rearview mirror a year ago after her mother, Beckie, died following a long battle with cancer.
“She was my best friend,” Carter said. “She was amazing. We did everything together.”
The family spread Beckie’s ashes at a favorite spot in Arizona and kept several small lockets of ashes to keep her memory close.
“I hung it on my rearview mirror because I wanted her to go and travel with me wherever I went,” Carter said.
Before her mother died, the two cherished their moments together. They traveled to Hawaii in the weeks before she died last February, and they ran a 5K race because it was on her mother’s bucket list.
“Her life was an adventure,” Carter said.
Carter knows getting the locket back is a long shot, but she's hopeful that whoever took it will see this report and understand how valuable it is to her.
“The only thing that has no value to anybody else means the entire world to me,” she said.
“Bring it back,” Carter pleaded. “There’s no reason for someone to have another love one’s remains. I’ll give you anything you want. Just bring back my mom.”
Anyone with information on the stolen locket is asked to call Salt Lake City police at 801-799-3000.
