89-Year-Old Solon Woman Invites Burglar Into Home

On Feb. 7, an 89-year-old Solon woman received a knock at the door and a strange visit she believes resulted in her SOM Center Drive home being burglarized.

On the other side of the door was a heavyset white male in his 50s wearing a black ball cap and a chain with a cross. He had a walkie-talkie and said one of her neighbor's pipes had burst from the cold, so he was coming by to make sure her pipes were fine, according to a Solon police report

The woman told police that the man checked out her kitchen sink and then the pipes in the bathroom. The entire time he was speaking into the walkie-talkie, but only said "alright" and nothing else. She said the man had an accent, but she could not place it.

After the man left in what the woman described as a newer beige Cadillac, she called her neighbor to check on her pipes. The neighbor said her pipes were fine and never froze.

The woman checked her house and found things out of place in her bedroom and about $1,500 worth of jewelry was missing.

Police suspect that while the man was in the house with the victim that he was communicating with an accomplice by walkie-talkie who went into the house and burglarized it.