A HOMEOWNER’S TRUE TALE

THE COMPLETE STORY OF A MIDNIGHT INTRUSIONALL EVENTS RECORDED HERE RELATE TO AN INCIDENTON THE NIGHT OF 28 AUGUST 2002 

0030hrs – All the lights in the house are out. The house is completely dark.  It seems as if all the occupants have gone to bed.  But one hasn’t.

0038hrs – Noises in the garden. Did the noise come from the house next door? The noises continued. Two voices. Whispering. The whispering continues. Mechanical noises indicated that someone was poking at a window.

            It now appeared that the intruders of the past had been coming in through the window, and going out through the door.

            It also seemed that they had been watching the house. Now they were breaking in again. But this time they were breaking into an ambush.

            The home-owner re-positioned, and waited.

0043hrs – One intruder – an adult sized male – and therefore able to do material harm to the homeowner – came though the kitchen door, thus exiting a ‘kill zone’ and entering an ‘escape zone’.

            The homeowner struck blow one.  Then blows two, three, four, and five. Each time the homeowner struck for the head. After blow two, the intruder was bent over so far with his shoulders hunched so much, that strikes three to five probably landed with less effect than the first two strikes.

            The intruder fumbled feverishly at the sliding door catch. Then, frantically desperate, he lifted the sliding door off its track, scrambled through the opening, and flew!

            From first strike to desperate escape, less than fifteen seconds had passed. The homeowner operated in complete silence and never ever saw the intruder’s face.  The intruder was so busy scrambling that he didn’t say anything either. Not even “Ouch!”

            The homeowner glimpsed an accomplice. The homeowner remembers that the second person was running suspended in mid-air rather like the cartoon character ‘Road Runner’.  Both swiftly moving shapes joined up and bolted down the side of the house.

            The homeowner didn’t bother to chase. He knew that was completely unnecessary. He knew that the intruder was going to go to the hospital – that very night and certainly within the next 60 minutes.

                       

0044hrs – Unhurriedly, the homeowner turned on the lights, called the Police non-emergency line, and asked for Police assistance.  The homeowner stressed that police needn’t come with flashing lights and blaring horns and waking up the sleeping neighbourhood.  After that, the homeowner checked upstairs and returned to make tea.

            Checking the window, he found that it had been re-closed and the screen re-lowered and the mini-blinds re-arranged to look as if no person had just climbed through them.

0055hrs – Two policemen arrived. They were offered tea and coffee. They declined. They asked questions, took notes, looked around outside the house.  They discovered a cosmetics bag that had been stolen on an earlier foray and then dropped outside the house.

            The homeowner assured them that they would find the intruder at the KEMH Emergency Department.

            Why? Because that is where the intruder had to go – that very night – in order to get the immediate expert medical attention that he needed.

            The homeowner suggested to the investigating officers that anybody turning up at KEMH that night seeking attention for severe wounds to the back of his head should have a sample of his blood matched against a sample taken from the inside of the sliding glass door.

            This, because on the inside of the sliding glass door, an area 5’ 0” high by 2’ 6” wide was spattered with someone’s blood. The carpet had more blood spattered over an area 2’ 0” wide by 1’ 0” deep. There were more blood spatters on several of the vertical blinds.

            [After sunrise the homeowner discovered yet more splotches of dried blood on his patio. The homeowner didn’t bother to look on the grass.]   

1000hrs – Police SOCO attended. She took finger and palm prints.  The homeowner gave her one of the blood-spattered vertical blind panels.

            Answering the homeowner’s questions, SOCO told the homeowner that in the early hours of the morning, investigating officers had found two persons at the KEMH Emergency Department. She didn’t tell their names, but she did say that both persons – one of whom had required about fifty stitches to the back of his head – were in custody and were proving extremely helpful in the police investigation.