Corey, again, I really am terribly sorry for your loss. Just for the record, I have not yet received anything from you, but as I've said somewhere before, I always willing to give a person the benefit of the doubt. Give all the facts leading up to this point (nobody hearing from you, receiving anything from you, then hearing stuff was shipped when it was not, etc...), it seemed far more plausible that you were a cheat then that you had suffered such a horrible tragedy. It would take a truly monsterous person to make up such a story just for the sake of putting people off a little longer, so...
Unfortunately we live in a world where there are too many crooks, so after a point it is very hard to interpret the signs differently. In the future, if I were to purchase something from someone who doesn't have a "history" on these boards, who takes my money or my parts, who says they will ship and I don't receive, who tells me lies or doesn't communicate, whom others report the same treatment from as well, after a certain period I will have to come to the conclusion that I was taken, and I will proceed accordingly. But just for the record, in this instance, I would have much rathered you turned out to be a thief, then a person who lost two loved ones.