Five years ago this week, Theresa Walski says her daughter, Tiffany, died by accident from a complication with her medication. Now, a ring that belonged to her is also missing.
"When you lose a child, you don't have a lot,” Walski says. “The flood took all my pictures of my daughter. That was it and that's not right.”
In December, Theresa says she took the ring, and six others, to Tony's Pawn Shop in Wyandotte. She received $300 in exchange.
Her husband was ill and she told me she desperately needed the money for food that month.
Since then, she's paid the pawn shop interest monthly, but when she went to get the rings back, she claims her daughter's ring wasn't with the others.
“I said no, sir, my daughter's ring is missing. It's not worth nothing and he said there's nothing he could do,” she says.
Looking for answers, we visited the shop. The man working today did not want to go on camera, but did produce the original paperwork for me.
That paperwork says six rings. Theresa insists there is a seventh and that's the one with the sentimental value for her.
The employee admits he's heard complaints from other customers about recent business practices at the shop and its irregular hours.
"I had to really do a lot of work to get them, one person, down there to get my stuff out and I didn't get it all. And now it's lost," Walski says.
Police are telling Walski the dispute is a civil matter.
