Family 'devastated' after box of love letters stolen

Love letters that a Tacoma woman's grandfather wrote to her grandmother during World War II were stolen by someone who took a package from her apartment complex.
 
Cristina Binkley had just moved to Tacoma from Prescott, Arizona, to begin a new job as a firefighter and paramedic for Med Flight. Her mother mailed her uniforms that she needs for the job, as well as a box of 100 love letters that her grandfather Bob wrote to her grandmother Barbara while he was in the Navy during the war.

Binkley said someone took the package, which was left outside her door.  She found her firefighting gear on top of a dumpster in the alley behind her apartment in the 600 block of St. Helens.
 
She found the box labeled "love letters from Bob" inside the dumpster. But the letters were gone.
 
Binkley says whoever took the letters might believe that they have value as collector's items because of the postmarks and stamps from overseas during the war.
 
Binkley's grandmother died just a few days ago, and her funeral is this weekend in Arizona. Her grandfather died when she was 4.
 
She said losing the letters has been a devastating blow to her and her family.