Cops: Man Stole Girls Shoes To Sniff Them
Police seized more than 1,500 pairs of girls shoes from the home and storage unit of a man arrested for breaking into a high school, police said Tuesday.
"He liked to smell them," said Lt. William H. Graham.
Police said the recovered shoes may be related to the burglaries of three Waukesha public high schools and a middle school over the past two years.
The 26-year-old Kenosha man, identified as Erik D. Heinrich by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, worked for a cable company and collected keys to the schools as he responded to calls, Graham said. The same man was convicted in 2005 for stealing shoes from Kenosha Tremper High School.
"I'm laid off," Heinrich said in court Tuesday. "I was working as a forklift operator." He was charged with three counts of burglary in Waukesha County Circuit Court, the Journal-Sentinel reported.
Police arrested him after a security video showed him entering North High School on May 20 and leaving with some items, authorities said.
Officers searched the man's home and a rented storage unit on Thursday, recovering the shoes along with school yearbooks, keys, a bolt cutter and other items.
"I thought it was another student," Waukesha South sophomore Kirstin Cornwall, 15, said. However, when Cornwall, who said her tennis shoes were stolen last year, learned the suspect was in his late 20s, she called it "creepy."
"What kind of weirdo goes around stealing shoes?" she told the Journal-Sentinel.
© 2009 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report. "He liked to smell them," said Lt. William H. Graham.
Police said the recovered shoes may be related to the burglaries of three Waukesha public high schools and a middle school over the past two years.
The 26-year-old Kenosha man, identified as Erik D. Heinrich by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, worked for a cable company and collected keys to the schools as he responded to calls, Graham said. The same man was convicted in 2005 for stealing shoes from Kenosha Tremper High School.
"I'm laid off," Heinrich said in court Tuesday. "I was working as a forklift operator." He was charged with three counts of burglary in Waukesha County Circuit Court, the Journal-Sentinel reported.
Police arrested him after a security video showed him entering North High School on May 20 and leaving with some items, authorities said.
Officers searched the man's home and a rented storage unit on Thursday, recovering the shoes along with school yearbooks, keys, a bolt cutter and other items.
"I thought it was another student," Waukesha South sophomore Kirstin Cornwall, 15, said. However, when Cornwall, who said her tennis shoes were stolen last year, learned the suspect was in his late 20s, she called it "creepy."
"What kind of weirdo goes around stealing shoes?" she told the Journal-Sentinel.
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What a very strange thing to want to do.
A few of us are even interested in a woman's personality---and after hearing that disgusting,
pandering, unprofessional remark Couric made about Navy SEALS, some of us can't take her seriously at all.
Posted by Uncle_James at 11:58 AM : May 30, 2007
LOL. YOu must be a male. Men are suckers for all the make up and the fake boobs or whatnot--we women see the GROOVES around her mouth, (se those 2 very deep semi circles on each side of her mouth---see the crow feet and the lightened areas around her eyes that means a lot of concealer is being used?) the tightened skin near her eyes and the roots before they are retouched--we know how to see a woman, look past the make up and pretty much know what we are looking at. Men get caught up in the pretty wrapping paper and forget it is not the gift but a cunningly arranged marketing cover to make you want the gift. rotflmao.
Do they start out with weird brains or does something so traumatic happen to them--that they just invert into sexual perversions?