"Then again, the way the article is worded, before long she might be working an angle to sue the police too."
If what she says is true she could sue the police even if she was scamming Wendy's. There is no need to handcuff people and throw them to the ground in order to execute a search warrant.
If what she says is true, the police did this in front of "all her neighbors", so there will be plenty of witnesses.
DNA results would show if she is related to the "finger" in question and should have been used before this. The first thing they should have done was request a DNA sample from the woman before prededing with the investigation.
Of course that would have been the intelligent thing to do. As far as the storm trooper tactics they exhibited she should be thinking about sueing the police. They were only there to search the house not arrest someone.
Why don't they exhume the aunt and count fingers.
This begs the question "How did she get her aunts finger?". I have buried many relatives and have never had the oportunity to actually cut off a digit or any other body part between the time the relative died and the time they buried them. It would be diffucult to do! Did she ask the funeral home to please giver her finger as a momento?
Point here is, she may have done it but we don't know that yet. Don't find her guilty until proven or at least until more evidence than suspicion is presented.