# Body of woman, 25, stolen from casket in broad daylight in Texas **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 23, 2015, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-of-woman-25-stolen-from-casket-in-broad-daylight-in-texas/728583 "2015-08-23T04:45:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-of-woman-25-stolen-from-casket-in-broad-daylight-in-texas/728583/41 "2015-08-24T14:30:20Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > If that’s the case then whoever is responsible needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. That’s too disgusting an act too even contemplate. When the dust settles, I’m betting it was a family member who was against cremation, and had he whisked off to a secret but traditional burial. At least, that’s what Occam whispered to me. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-of-woman-25-stolen-from-casket-in-broad-daylight-in-texas/728583/42 "2015-08-24T15:08:00Z")
> [@Bill\_Door](#): > > What, sometimes you’ve just got to crack open a cold one? Slow clap, sir, slow clap!! ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-of-woman-25-stolen-from-casket-in-broad-daylight-in-texas/728583/43 "2015-08-24T15:14:54Z")
Is there a shortage of bodies at medical schools? ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-of-woman-25-stolen-from-casket-in-broad-daylight-in-texas/728583/44 "2015-08-24T15:27:21Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > Missed the edit window, but just saw your comment about the procedures for embalming if it’s going for cremation. I’m not sure how they handle that normally, but either way the point is the corpse would have been pretty fresh at the time. The only reason that article even offers the “objecting to cremation” as a possibility is because they want to spare the family’s dignity by not mentioning the much, much more likely event that somebody is fucking their daughter’s corpse barring conclusive proof. Yeah, I’m inclined to put this in the same category as those stories where some guy has been lost at sea for days, and the article mentions that relatives are holding out hope that he might still be alive. The author doesn’t want to be the asshole who pulls the last straw of hope out of their fingers. Seriously, they’re most likely going to find that some orderly at the hospital where she died is a necrophile :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-of-woman-25-stolen-from-casket-in-broad-daylight-in-texas/728583/45 "2015-08-24T15:27:40Z")
Not since the days of Burke and Hare, dude. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-of-woman-25-stolen-from-casket-in-broad-daylight-in-texas/728583/46 "2015-08-24T15:29:36Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > If that’s the case then whoever is responsible needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. That’s too disgusting an act too even contemplate. You biophiliacs really get to me. ---
**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-of-woman-25-stolen-from-casket-in-broad-daylight-in-texas/728583/47 "2015-08-24T15:40:07Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > You cannot seriously be that naive. > > The girl was young and cute. She presumably died in a hospital or under care of some sort, so the body would have been embalmed quickly and thus very well preserved. There’s only one reason someone would want to surreptitiously steal that body, and it wasn’t her grandma on the way to a clandestine proper Christian burial. Well, his article does say that: "It would be speculation at this point to comment on a possible motive, he says. But funeral home owner Robert Tips told the San Antonio Express-News that he and authorities “feel very strongly” that the person or persons responsible could have been ideologically opposed to cremation. " ---
**Author:** ![Blaster\_Master](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cab0a1/32.png) [@Blaster\_Master](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blaster_Master)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-of-woman-25-stolen-from-casket-in-broad-daylight-in-texas/728583/48 "2015-08-24T15:50:54Z")
My first thought was, like many here, it was probably stolen for the obvious reason. I get saying that it may have been someone ideologically opposed to cremation, but it just doesn’t make sense. Seriously, if someone is ideologically opposed, it’s probably someone older, and they probably said something about it. So either they said something, then were stupid enough to go steal the body, knowing they’d be a prime suspect, or they didn’t say something, which just makes them an idiot because they’ve desecrated the body of their relative by taking it and letting it just rot when they might have convinced someone with a simple request, so it would also defeat the purpose. So, yeah, it’s disgusting and unfortunate, but I just can’t see anything other than someone having their way with her corpse, and when they’re done, I imagine they’ll just dump it somewhere. It’s not like they’re going to organize a search for her corpse like they would for a missing person, but I seriously doubt she’ll ever be found. But I do really hope we’re wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-of-woman-25-stolen-from-casket-in-broad-daylight-in-texas/728583/49 "2015-08-24T15:54:51Z")
Tragedy: A young, beautiful woman, in the prime of her life, dies from a terrible disease. Comedy: Someone steals her body, in order to pork it. No, really, I looked it up. Those are the textbook definitions. Humans are weird. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-of-woman-25-stolen-from-casket-in-broad-daylight-in-texas/728583/50 "2015-08-24T15:57:03Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > Tragedy: A young, beautiful woman, in the prime of her life, dies from a terrible disease. > > Comedy: Someone steals her body, in order to pork it. > > No, really, I looked it up. Those are the textbook definitions. > > Humans are weird. Of what, a luau? ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-of-woman-25-stolen-from-casket-in-broad-daylight-in-texas/728583/51 "2015-08-24T16:03:11Z")
Its Texas. For all we know, it was in her will along with being beaten first. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-of-woman-25-stolen-from-casket-in-broad-daylight-in-texas/728583/52 "2015-08-24T17:21:04Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Is this a zombie thread? Not yet. Give it time. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-of-woman-25-stolen-from-casket-in-broad-daylight-in-texas/728583/53 "2015-08-24T17:27:45Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Of what, a luau? There’s a pulled pork joke in here somewhere, but not me, boss. Not me. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-of-woman-25-stolen-from-casket-in-broad-daylight-in-texas/728583/54 "2015-08-24T17:39:02Z")
They need to get a stiff sentence for this. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-of-woman-25-stolen-from-casket-in-broad-daylight-in-texas/728583/55 "2015-08-24T18:28:36Z")
> [@Blaster\_Master](#): > > So either they said something, then were stupid enough to go steal the body, knowing they’d be a prime suspect, or they didn’t say something, which just makes them an idiot because they’ve desecrated the body of their relative by taking it and letting it just rot when they might have convinced someone with a simple request, so it would also defeat the purpose. You are assuming they have the body in the garage. If it was someone with a religious objection they probably buried the body immediately and had their own little religious service. Lots of open land in Texas. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-of-woman-25-stolen-from-casket-in-broad-daylight-in-texas/728583/56 "2015-08-24T18:36:35Z")
[QUOTE=CNN] Funeral home owner Dick Tips told the affiliate that he believes the body may have been stolen by someone who didn’t support Mott’s cremation, which was supposed to take place August 17. [/QUOTE] Mr and Mrs Tips have to answer for naming their child Richard but it’s on him for going by Dick. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-of-woman-25-stolen-from-casket-in-broad-daylight-in-texas/728583/57 "2015-08-24T18:42:47Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Mr and Mrs Tips have to answer for naming their child Richard but it’s on him for going by Dick. Sounds like he’s a circumciser by trade. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-of-woman-25-stolen-from-casket-in-broad-daylight-in-texas/728583/58 "2015-08-24T18:50:02Z")
SNL funeral home commercial: [https://screen.yahoo.com/funeral-home-commercial-000000981.html](https://screen.yahoo.com/funeral-home-commercial-000000981.html) ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-of-woman-25-stolen-from-casket-in-broad-daylight-in-texas/728583/59 "2015-08-24T19:18:24Z")
Ferryman Funeral Homes spot on [WKRP in Cincinnati](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXRxYLfq78g). StG ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-of-woman-25-stolen-from-casket-in-broad-daylight-in-texas/728583/60 "2015-08-24T21:34:59Z")
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