Family Sleeps While House – Including Kids' Bedrooms – Is Burgled

A Wauwatosa family awoke last Thursday to a shock – while they slept peacefully, a burglar or burglars had roamed throughout their house, even the bedrooms their two young children occupied.

Curiously, the crime was committed so stealthily it did not even alarm the family's two dogs, which were inside the master bedroom with the door closed.

The man called police about 7 a.m. to the home in the 6700 block of West Wisconsin Avenue after discovering the crime. A dining room window screen had been cut out, and the partially open window pushed up enough to climb through. A patio chair had been moved under the window to make it easier to reach the window.

On the ground outside was a pair of the woman's Chuck Taylor shoes.

From the dining room, only a shopping bag was missing, which was presumed to have been used to carry off other property. 

In the living room, seven DVDs, a video camera battery and the man's Chuck Taylors were gone, and an attempt had been made to wrench a 42-inch TV set from the wall above the fireplace mantel.

Upstairs, an Xbox video game console containing one game had been taken from a spare room used as an office, and the drawers of a desk had been rummaged through.

Much more disturbing, the bedroom of one child (ages redacted) had been entered and a Milwaukee Brewers watch was stolen off the child's dresser.

In the other child's bedroom, the couple made a truly eerie discovery. While nothing was missing, their infant monitor had been turned off and the window had been opened.

The homeowners said they had no reason to suspect anyone in particular but they suspected it was "kids" because of what was stolen.

Whatever their age, the perpetrators left no physical evidence of any kind – not even a visible footprint on the patio chair – and a neighborhood canvass found no one who had seen or heard a thing.