Lead Story
A woman in Pearl River, Louisiana, reported to police in October that someone who’d broken into her house left without taking anything but had put her garbage on the porch and cleaned all of her ashtrays. And in Woodbridge, New Jersey, in July, a resident also reported that someone who’d broken into her house left without taking anything but had moved a TV set into the den and a camera from one table to another.
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In August Sophie Rodier, her husband, Real Plouffe, and their two-year-old daughter were accosted by a woman on the street in Montreal. Said Plouffe, “She asked my wife how much she wanted for our baby. Then the woman handed her a blank check and told her to write in whatever amount of money she wanted.” Plouffe said the family fled.
Least Justifiable Homicides
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Shawn Belschwender.
