Woman Steals Ring Off Dead Grandmother’s Finger At Funeral Home, Only To Get What She Deserves

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In April 2016, a southern grandma named Lois Hicks passed away in the place where she grew up in Odessa, Texas. She was 88 years of age.

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The theft occurred Friday, less than a day after Hicks' death when her grieving family gathered at a close-by memorial service home to state farewell to Lois.

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It wasn't until they left the building that a lady without any binds to the family snuck into the room.

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A female thief asked to use the funeral home's restroom at around 5:30 p.m. But, she coolly strolled up to Lois in her coffin, hung over her body, pulled the jewel ring ideal off her finger and fled in her vehicle! The incident was caught on the memorial service home's security camera.

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after 15 minutes, Lois' girl Vel, came back to the space to touch up her late mother's makeup when she saw the ring missing from her finger and the skin around on her ring finger torn and crude.

McKee and others close to Hicks had left the funeral home shortly before the thief's arrival, Vel told the American.

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Vel told the Odessa American:

"I can't believe someone would be that low,It makes me sick to my stomach"

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Lois' entire family was hoping and praying the mystery criminal would be caught and punished for her despicable crime, but police couldn't identify her at first.

After several days of trying to track her down, authorities arrested the 41-year-old thief and charged her with theft from a human corpse.

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But here's what the thief probably didn't know at the time she stole Lois' diamond ring

It was a fake $10 plastic ring.

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Cpl. Steve LeSueur of the Odessa Police Department said the crime is considered a felony.

LeSueur told USA TODAY:

"It's being investigated, even though the ring was a $10 plastic ring, Theft of a corpse, regardless of whether it's $5 or $5,000 is still an automatic felony."

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It's not clear how the video of the theft ended up online, where it's amassed tens of thousands of views across differentplatforms, police said.

A representative of Sunset Funeral Home told USA TODAY that the business did not publish the video online and declined further comment.

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Watch the video here: