More open house burglaries

I wrote recently about a series of burglaries that took place while Realtors were showing the properties.

In the story I mention four homes, while saying that a fifth home was rumored to have been robbed. The just talked with the fifth Realtor, who was running an open house in San Marino.... he is pretty sure the burglary took place on the same day as the others, and mentions the exact same mother/daughter combo that others suspect. He said the mother was distracting him by asking him a series of tedious questions while the daughter disappeared.

Also, an Altadena woman wrote in and said something similar happened to her a few years back.

Lastly, I got an interesting email from a local writer:

I wrote and produced an indie musical feature titled "Open House" a few years ago with my friend Dan Mirvish. A big element of the film are "Sexy Swipers," faux-home shoppers who attend open houses for the thrill of "getting it on" while the home owners' backs are turned. They also steal. The film was largely shot in San Marino. Though "sexy swiping" was a phenomenon Dan and I concocted from thin air, I wonder if the heists in Pasadena are cases of life imitating art.

Might be a little of a stretch, since nobody has accused the suspects of copulation in the homes that they burgled, but you never know.