A bizarre theft in Cedar County has left a local woman there without her glass eye.

The prosthetic was in her purse, when the purse was stolen from her car.

Life hasn't always been a walk in the park for Krystal Horning.

Ten years ago she lost her eye sight in an accident at home.

"We were moving and my husband was busy working and I was tying down a mattress on the back of my mom and them's truck and I had a bungee cord and I was strapping the mattress down and it came back and hit me in the eye," Horning said. "This is still my regular eye they sowed it back up but I have no vision I"m completely blind."

From the beginning, Krystal's dream was to get a shell for that damaged eye, a dream that finally came true, just this month.

Then Monday, March 13, 2017 Krystal and her daughter made a quick stop at the Dollar General store, leaving her purse in the car and in it that very valuable shell.

"I told her put my wallet in my purse and she was like 'mom your purse isn't in here' and I was like 'what do you mean my purse isn't in here?'" Horning said.

The purse had been stolen and what was Krystal's new sense of confidence is gone too.

"I've waited 10 years for this....now it's just like wow I've got to go out in public again like that I mean it hurts...and I've only had it since March the 1st," Horning said.

The casual theft has robbed Krystal in a lot of different ways.

"My son wanted me to come to school with him this morning to read with him they were doing a reading thing at school and he's like no mom you don't have your eye and he's afraid that his classmates will make fun of me," Horning said.

The Lions Club is going to replaces the eye's shell, but Krystal said that means going to Memphis, Tennessee, a financial challenge in itself. Getting the eye returned would be so much better.

"Please I don't care take it somewhere leave it, the police station, give it to a friend and have someone else just bring it back," Horning said. "I just really would appreciate to have my eye back it was molded to me it's not any use to anybody else because."

It's a plea for more than an object returned, getting the eye back would mean an easier way back to normal life.

The Cedar County Sheriff's Office is asking for the anyone with information to call them.

Right now, Krystal Horning plans to head to Memphis on March 26th if her eye isn't found.

