A real-life grim reaper was filmed breaking into a funeral home, stealing a casket and the body inside, before then dumping the corpse face-down on some rocks outside.
Patricia Sierra, 47, told cops she did it because she “blacked out from drinking six beers” – however reliable that is. However, she didn’t become a suspect until officers looked over surveillance footage.
The CCTV shows a female entering the Affordable Cremation & Burial Service in Las Vegas on August 27 by breaking the front window and reaching through it to unlock the door, as per the police report.
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The female then walks to the viewing room and up to the casket before rolling it out of the door, stumbling along the way before leaving the business. The body was later discovered laying face-down on the pavement outside, with its feet covered with plastic bags.
A construction worker saw officers at the scene and told them he saw a woman who resembled the female in the video holding flowers, and sitting on one of the funeral home’s walls on the day of the incident, according to the report.
Cops then IDd the woman after responding to a separate incident of a suspicious person at a 7-Eleven convenience store, the arrest report adds. The 911 caller told police he believed the woman at the store was wearing the same clothes as the real-life grim reaper female at the funeral home.
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The woman was arrested and she told cops she often “blacks out” due to a substance abuse problem. The woman told the officer she used a red BMX to get around, which also matched the description of the bike at the scene and in the footage.
The 47-year-old woman has now been charged with burglary of a business, grand larceny and the removal, transfer and distribution of human remains, a Las Vegas Metropolitan police officer wrote in an arrest report obtained by USA TODAY.
According to funeral home paperwork, the deceased person arrived at the business on August 20 and the viewing took place on August 26 – one day before the disturbing incident.
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The suspect told officers she wasn’t trying to be malicious and that she didn’t mean to steal the casket, as per the report. When a detective showed her the surveillance video, she told him she blacked out and did not remember doing it before admitting to drinking six beers that day.
Affordable Cremation & Burial Service has not responded to requests for comment.
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