Saturday, January 09, 2010

Burglar has penchant for men's shoes

A burglar broke into Justin Coolihan’s home, stealing all of his shoes and a picture of Coolihan with his 2-year-old goddaughter. The robber left the sandals.

Coolihan is not alone in being the victim of such odd crimes. A serial burglar has been breaking into Newark, Del., homes and stealing only men’s shoes and photographs with men in them. Five homes have had similar break-ins from Dec. 26 to Jan. 3, police said.

“What, like, freaks me out a little bit, like, what are you going to do with a picture of me and a 2-year-old girl in the picture,” Coolihan said. “That’s not, like, good.”

Next door at Rebecca Flanagan’s a similar robbery occurred. The burglar broke in while she and her roommate were on Winter break, stealing photos from a collage. But only the photos with men.

“He somehow cut the locks off and got into the bedrooms and took every picture that had a male, including picture frames, and left all the pictures with females,” said Flanagan.

“This is some type of fetish with shoes and men’s photographs,” said one Newark police officer.

With news video.

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