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BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2011-10-23 21:53
Police detectives have been left red-faced after a 12-year-old solved a burglary case they could not after she found clues officers had missed.
Amateur sleuth Jessica Maple confronted the alleged burglars after she took it upon herself to investigate a break in at her late great-grandmother's house in Atlanta.
The aspiring detective said she wanted to use investigative skills she had learned on a Junior District Attorney camp this summer.
Miss Maple showed she was more like Miss Marple after she asked her mother to take her to the house to see if she could find any clues.
Police had said that whoever robbed the house must have had a key as there were no signs of forced entry, but the curious 12-year-old found otherwise.
'I went to the side of the house and looked at the garage,' she told ABC News.
'The windows were broken. There were finger prints by the glass. Everything was ramshackled. There were clothes everywhere.'
After finding crucial clues the police had missed, the girl visited a pawn shop down the road and found her great-grandmother's furniture on sale.
'They weren't thinking,' she said of the thieves. 'They put everything in the same shop.'
The manager of the shop gave the girl both men's picture identifications and she called the investigating officer to tell him she had solved the crime.
'He was like "You beat me to this stuff" and I was like, "I did your job again",' she said.
In an audacious move, the girl then went to one of the burglar's homes to confront him accompanied by her mother.
'We went up to him and I asked him why he did it,' Jessica said. 'At first he denied it, but then he confessed.'
Despite the evidence, no arrests have yet been made by police.
'They have all the evidence,' Jessica said. 'I have no idea what is taking so long.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2028269/Twelve-year-old-girl-solves-crime-police-confronts-burglars-herself.html
DETECTIVE CONAN?
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Cucurbita wrote on 2011-10-23 21:56
'I went to the side of the house and looked at the garage,' she told ABC News.
'The windows were broken. There were finger prints by the glass. Everything was ramshackled. There were clothes everywhere.'
Sure is easy to get away with crime nowadays, isn't it?
The police didn't even TRY.
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Taycat wrote on 2011-10-23 21:59
I would hate to be a victim in that police district.
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Skye wrote on 2011-10-23 22:00
That's adorable. :D
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Hiccup wrote on 2011-10-23 22:23
Wow those cops are retarded
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Osayidan wrote on 2011-10-24 01:33
I bet they just walked in while enjoying a box of donuts, looked around briefly while discussing last night's game, then went back to the office so they could continue sitting down instead of spending energy standing up.
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Chillax wrote on 2011-10-24 01:39
Those must have been some pretty tame burglars to not try to hurt the girl and her mother when confronted.
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Cucurbita wrote on 2011-10-24 01:46
Quote from Chillax;632990:
Those must have been some pretty tame burglars to not try to hurt the girl and her mother when confronted.
Even burglars are people. I mean sure you're probably not in the right state of mind if you're willing to break into a house, but normally a person wouldn't want to make any more trouble than they're already causing.
If their goal was "steal stuff", then thats what they're going to do.
When she came and confronted him with the evidence, theres nothing you can really do about it. You've been proven as a criminal now, and handing yourself in is probably for the best. Besides, I would personally never imagine that the child and the mother are alone. There would've been police escort nearby or something.
Then again I'm speaking from a rational perspective. These guys broken in to a house, left fingerprints, and sold all their stolen goods to a local pawn shop. Dumb. As. Bricks.
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Chillax wrote on 2011-10-24 02:29
Quote from Cucurbita;632997:
Even burglars are people. I mean sure you're probably not in the right state of mind if you're willing to break into a house, but normally a person wouldn't want to make any more trouble than they're already causing.
If their goal was "steal stuff", then thats what they're going to do.
When she came and confronted him with the evidence, theres nothing you can really do about it. You've been proven as a criminal now, and handing yourself in is probably for the best. Besides, I would personally never imagine that the child and the mother are alone. There would've been police escort nearby or something.
Then again I'm speaking from a rational perspective. These guys broken in to a house, left fingerprints, and sold all their stolen goods to a local pawn shop. Dumb. As. Bricks.
Considering they didn't panic like crazy and hurt someone in the process, I'd say that's pretty tame.
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iSheep wrote on 2011-10-24 02:59
They didn't check the sides and notice a broken window? Lol?
And why did the mother let her daughter confront the burgler.. Kinda dangerous but, a cute story. XD
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Kaeporo wrote on 2011-10-24 03:11
Very unusual story. It does remind me of Case Closed.
'cept this story ended after a few paragraphs and not hundreds of episodes.
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Cynic wrote on 2011-10-24 06:42
I'd normally say that's basically the justice system in a nut-shell, but it sucks way more than that.
Those cops actually sound decent.
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Mentosftw wrote on 2011-10-24 07:08
Quote from Chillax;632990:
Those must have been some pretty tame burglars to not try to hurt the girl and her mother when confronted.
It wasn't written but oh it did.
The burglars saw the chance to escape and ran past the mother and the girl when they were being confronted.
After the girl recovered from being pushed down, she activated her super sneakers and kicked two bricks lying around in the garden straight into the fleeing burglars' heads.
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The part where the girl said she did his job AGAIN made me go .-_-.
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Ithiliel wrote on 2011-10-24 14:31
Wow....why didn't they check the garage in the first place?
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Adelynn wrote on 2011-10-25 00:50
How they missed this in the first place is kind of amazing. Good thing she was there.