MANITOWOC, WI (WTAQ) - A Manitowoc woman says she can’t understand how someone could steal from a dead person.

Ann Stradal says her mother died at Holy Family Memorial Medical Center this month. Stadal says six jeweled rings disappeared from her mother’s fingers in the hours after she passed away.

The rings showed up on a CAT scan just before the older woman died, but when her daughter tried to recover the rings from the funeral home the next day, the funeral director told her he had found no rings on her fingers.

Manitowoc police are investigating the theft report.