A family is reeling after the body of their beautiful, 25-year-old daughter was stolen from its casket just hours after her funeral.
The Daily News reports that Julie Mott, 25, of Texas, died in August after a two-decade battle with cystic fibrosis, a genetic disease that causes lung infections.
Her body was stolen after her funeral in San Antonio.
The theft was discovered after staff went to take her for cremation and found the casket open and empty.
Police say there were “no signs of forced entry on the Mission Parks Funeral Chapel North home, and no alarms had gone off or been tampered with overnight. That means her body was likely stolen from a private viewing area between the end of the service at 1:30 p.m. and the end of the business day at 4:30 p.m. after the funeral.”
The theft is the first one in the funeral home’s 108-year history.
Funeral director Robert Tips said: “This is an unprecedented and unthinkable event and we are doing everything in our power to cooperate with the ongoing police investigation.’
The funeral home’s owners are close friends with Julie’s family and knew Julie since she was born.
“They are a wonderful family and the loss of their daughter was a heavy burden for them to bear,” Tips said.
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