Family Sues Funeral Home For $1 Million, Daughter’s Body Went Missing Before Cremation And Was Never Found

A Texas family is suing a funeral home for $1 million after their 25-year-old daughter’s body went missing five months ago before the funeral home could cremate her body. The family is suing for gross negligence in the case, noting that their daughter’s body has never been found. The young woman’s body was stolen after her funeral service at the Mission Park North Funeral Chapel in San Antonio and has never been recovered.

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The Daily Mail reports that the parents of 25-year-old Julie Mott are suing the Mission Park North Funeral Chapel after their daughter’s body went missing. The funeral home initially stated that they misplaced the body, which the Mott family says is entirely unacceptable and amounts to gross negligence. The girl’s body went missing after her funeral service was held as she was being taken away by the funeral home for cremation. However, before the young woman could be cremated, someone stole her body.

According to KYTX, the body of Julie Mott has never been found despite efforts by the family to encourage the corpse thief to bring back the body. The family pleaded with the person who stole their daughter’s body to return her to the family that loved her.

“We ask that you please, please return our Julie to us. I was her caregiver, the one who drove her to her doctor’s visits, stayed with her throughout her many hospital stays and, in her later years, her best friend. Without a doubt, she loved me as much as I loved her. This selfish person who took her could not have loved her any more than I do.”

Mott reportedly died from complications from cystic fibrosis but passed away peacefully in her sleep. The family is offering a $20,000 reward for any information that leads to the recovery of their daughter’s body. The lawsuit filed by the family states that the funeral home has been unable to explain how they lost the body and that the family doesn’t want something like this to happen to anyone else.

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“After the memorial service, but before the body was transferred to the crematorium, Mission lost possession of Julie Mott’s body, and to this day has been unable to explain how they lost the body.”

It was reported that volunteers and local law enforcement officers have combed the wooded area around the location where the body went missing but have not come up with any clues. However, it was noted that the family and police have claimed that they “have an idea” of who took Mott’s body but have not been able to make an arrest. The alleged corpse thief was reportedly the last person seen leaving the funeral home, a man who was obsessed with the young woman leading up to her death. The individual who is unnamed but said to be in his 20s was obsessively calling and texting Julie in her final days and that this person did not want Julie to be cremated.

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However, Mott’s mother says that Julie had requested that her body be cremated, and she simply wants to fulfill her daughter’s final wishes to the best of her ability.

“I did everything in my power to fulfill her wishes. The fact that I cannot fulfill her final wishes is unbearable. It is breaking my heart each and every day.”

With the funeral home unable to explain how they lost the body, do you think the Mott family deserves to win their gross negligence lawsuit against the funeral home? Do you think the person responsible for taking the body simply buried the body as the alleged suspect was opposed to a cremation?

[Image via Facebook/Julie Mott]