Last year, the Franklin Police Department investigated a home burglary, in which the burglars took something irreplaceable.
On March 16, 2015, sometime between 11am and 5pm, someone broke into the Tuck residence in the 300 block of South Margin Street. Joel Tuck arrived home to find his back door standing open, the glass broken out of it, and his daughter, Whitney Tuck’s favorite pink purse among the items missing. Whitney died in 2005, just days after Christmas. She was 19 when she lost her battle with Leukemia, and her dad kept Whitney’s ashes in a box, inside of her favorite pink purse, in his room.
With the help of witnesses, Franklin Police Flex Unit Officers developed evidence pointing to Christopher Gengler and Jwyanza Weaver (pictured above) as the suspects in the case.
Following their burglary of the Tuck residence, the two drove to a Shell Station on Murfreesboro Road in Franklin, where Gengler threw the purse containing Whitney’s ashes into the trash. Despite an exhaustive search of several dumpsters, officers have not been able to locate the discarded remains of Whitney Tuck
The Franklin PD were proud to report that earlier this week, Weaver and Gengler pleaded guilty and have been sentenced to 5 years in prison.
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