While the woman may have known that stealing the ring was a crime, she probably didn’t know this: The ring she took was a fake, a $10 piece of plastic, according to police.
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The Odessa police are asking for anyone with information to call Odessa Crime Stoppers at 432-333-TIPS.
A representative of Sunset Funeral Home told USA TODAY that the business did not publish the video online and declined further comment.
Police are reviewing the footage and questioning employees at the funeral home in an effort to identify the woman. “Horrible. I hope they catch her”. The surveillance video captured the alleged thief’s license plate, and the family is pressing charges. The ring remained on Hick’s hand to remember her late husband Gayle, who preceded Lois in death by three years.
“We had only been gone for 15 minutes”.
Jewelry theft from the dead at funeral homes is nothing new, Vallie said.
The woman asked where the toilets were but entered the room containing Ms Hicks’ coffin instead. “Not in a million years”.
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“As if my grandmother passing away hasn’t been hard enough on my entire family now some low life thief went into the funeral home yesterday around 5:40pm and stole the ring off her finger”, she wrote on Facebook before posting the video. They added there were injuries to Hicks’ ring finger.
