Have you ever been robbed/had your house burglarized?

Question

Were the people that did it caught?
My house was broken into a few years ago and the deputy that investigated saw a footprint outside the broken window and said,
"there's the footprint, I think we know who did this."
Yea, me too...somebody with feet.
No arrests were made.
No disrespect to law enforcement...I appreciate the job you do...just thought it was amusing.

Answer 1

Property crimes are a difficult crime to solve. They involve collecting the evidence at the scene. The footprint should have been photographed and lifted from the ground under the window.
The police should have conducted inquiries of pawn shops to search for your property stolen. Canvassed the neighborhood for witnesses who may have seen a person not known to the area or a person in the area known for crimes in the neighborhood. The person selected your home not at random - he knew you were not home meaning one of 2 things either he watched your home until you left, or he knocked on your door to see if someone would answer. The third possibility is a neighbor most likely a teenager and no older then 25.

Answer 2

No home broken into, but cars broken into several times. You work your butt of to buy nice things, then some jerk who doesn't even know what work is comes and tries to take it away.

My motorcycle was stolen several years ago. When I reported it, the officer was very honest when he said they would likely not be able to recover it. He called me the next day and said it had been found, 200 miles away, under a truck after an accident. The guy who stole it was dead. Guess he should have taken the helmet, too.

Answer 3

OK, I respect law enforcement 100% they have a tough job to do. My husband is a deputy. But here goes...
3 weeks after I graduated from high school, I came home one evening. I was alone, but I kept getting this creepy creepy feeling. I went out, locked my back gate (wich absolutely could not be unlocked from the outside). I locked the back door (the deadbolt requires a key to lock/unlock both inside & out since it was glass). I locked the front door. What i didn't know was that I locked the burglar inside my house. After being home for a few hours, I went to the bathroom, being 18 & waiting for a call, Thank GOD I had taken my phone in the bathroom with me. Immediately after I closed the door, someone turned my radio in my room down, then began scratching fingernails up and down the bathroom door. I could see their Red Adidas shoes under the door. Horrified, I called 911. 57 minutes later (I lived 2 miles from the PD & we were in the Dallas suburbs) the officers arrived. At the same time they pulled up in front of my house, my parents pulled up. They took a few minutes to question my parents about what they were doing. When dad lead them to the front door, it was locked, he didn't have his keys so he went around back, was able to enter through the gate, then enter through the back door. No one was there but me. While I was waiting for the cops to arrive, the guy continued to run his fingernails on the door, knock on the wall , mess with my radio, go through my drawers and that kind of stuff. Apparently when the cops pulled up in front of my house, they saw the lights through the window and took off out the back door while the cops were out front with my parents. The cops came in looked around said, sorry, no evidence and started to leave. I let them know that I had had problems with 2 guys my sr. year, and based on the shoes and stuff, I thought it was one of them. They said I had a "vandetta" because the guys were of another race.
After the cops left, my sister found a handprint and foot print on a newly painted wall (It was a black sillohuete of the dallas skyline - easy to see prints on). The cops came back out, said it was an imprint that had been left while the paint was wet and left again. Never even tried. Once they dismissed the prints, my sister wiped them right off the wall, so much for an imprint that had been made in fresh paint. They didn't take into consideration that it was the opposite side of the bathroom wall, where they had been scratching & pushing on the wall.
The guys that broke into my house didn't take a single thing, except for my house keys, making it possible for them to return. But what the police didn't want to hear was that these 2 guys along with another friend of their's had all but raped me 7 months earlier. I lost all hope that the officers there would ever protect me. I wouldn't wish that fear on anyone. I think the only thing that saved me once they decided to make their move was that they were only interested in scaring me, or that I was on the phone with 911 and there would have been a record of it all. Oh, & the 911 operator could hear the scratching on the door the hitting on the wall, and the volume going up and down continuously on the radio in my room. So this isn't an all in your head kind of incident. And all 3 of the guys ended up being convicted of separate rape charges, 2 of them were involved in gang rapes while they were in college (not together - but different incidents), and the other molested his 16 yr old girlfriend when he was 21. So they were all headed down a path, when I found out what they had done in the years following that I couldn't help but wonder if I had pressed harder, maybe the 3 girls they harmed could have been protected from being raped.
Fortunately today, I'm married to someone who takes an incident like that VERY seriously and wouldn't make that mistake.

The next day my dad bought a 9mm and took me to the range :), and we got a dog for that back yard.

and as for the race (I'm white, the guys who were more than likely in my house that night were black).

Sorry about the length, just relaying the info.

Answer 4

Had things stolen outside my house but not inside found out who did it but they were not caught they were called out into the street but like most theives they did not come out of there house.Would not want to even think of my home being invaded would be allmost the ultimate insult like home being raped.

Answer 5

at least they looked around. when our house was robbed they just took it over the phone!

Answer 6

yes but they never caught the people