--- description: Julie Mott's body had been on the way towards cremation before it disappeared. title: Woman's Corpse Stolen From Her Casket image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Woman's Corpse Stolen From Her Casket  by [Tanya Basu](/author/tanya-basu/)  ## Tanya Basu Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 23, 2015 7:01 PM CUT  by [Tanya Basu](/author/tanya-basu/)  ## Tanya Basu Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 23, 2015 7:01 PM CUT Authorities in San Antonio are searching for the person who stole a dead woman’s body from her casket. Julie Mott, 25, died of complications from cystic fibrosis on August 8\. On August 15, funeral services were held at Mission Park Funeral Chapel North, and the casket holding Mott’s body was moved into a hallway for transfer to cremation. The next day, employees found her casket empty. “I have never in 22 years in law enforcement ever heard of anything like this,” San Antonio Police Department Sgt. Javier Salazar said [at a press conference](http://www.mysanantonio.com/ndnvideo/?ndn.trackingGroup=90002&ndn.siteSection=mysanantonio%5Fnws%5Fnon%5Fnon%5Fppap&ndn.videoId=29585005&freewheel=90002&sitesection=mysanantonio%5Fnws%5Fnon%5Fnon%5Fppap&vid=29585005 "undefined"), according to the San Antonio Express-News. Police have remained tight-lipped about leads or suspects, but have hinted it could be an operation that involved “two or several” people. “Until we get that crucial piece of evidence leading us to just the right person or people, we just won’t know,” Salazar said. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4007473/woman-corpse-casket-missing/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4007473/woman-corpse-casket-missing/"},"headline":"Woman's Corpse Stolen From Her Casket","datePublished":"2015-08-23T19:01:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T10:22:17.142Z","description":"Julie Mott's body was on its way to being cremated before funeral home employees found her casket empty","url":"https://time.com/4007473/woman-corpse-casket-missing/","keywords":["Crime","Cremation","local"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tanya Basu","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tanya-basu/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4007473/woman-corpse-casket-missing/","name":"Woman's Corpse Stolen From Her Casket"}}]}] ```