I need some unbiased advice.It is so hard to know just what to do. This is the situation. On Father's Day my son and his wife and two little boys came over for the morning. When they went home my son went to take the 4 year old swimming and when he opened the pool gate and went to untie the dog, he saw the dog hanging. He ushered the 4 year old back into the house so he did not see this gruesome site. The dog had been tide by an outside shower stall and it 'appeared' that this 18 month old chocolate lab had for some mysterious reason , gone inside this small stall and jumped straight up 5 1/2 feet over the wall and hung himself. This was a wall that he could easily walk around the outside of and knew there was nothing on the other side. The top of his head was a little bloody. This dog had never jumped on anything before. I told my son that I thought it was real suspicious be he did not think so at the time. As the week went on we started thinking about other things that had been happening. Such as:
They had just changed their phone number and only about 4 people knew it. My daughter in law got a filthy phone call while I was there. They guy called her by name. He said he was coming over. How did he get the number. We tried every way we could come up with and we could not get that number to come up. It was not in the system yet.
The cordless phone from my son's home office was missing. When paged, there was no answer. We looked in every inch of the house and it was gone. When we were talking on the phone line, it often sounded like someone picked up an extension.
My daughter-in-law kept having a 'feeling' about the little boy's bedroom window and checked it every day. One day she found it was unlocked. None of us had done it.
A small jade tree plant outside my son's office window had the bottom branch broke off a few days after the dog died. It was in a position that if you were trying to look in the window and stepped closer without looking down, you would step right on that branch.
I took my dog over there and walked him around the house and every time he got to the children's bedroom window he got real interested in the scent on the ground under it.
A rubber mallet is missing from the tool box right before the dog died.
My daughter-in-law heard something in the attic right over the garage. She listened and heard it again. She went in the house and locked the door.
When my son got home Friday he said when he stepped in the house he had this overwhelming feeling that someone had been in the house.
He went right out and bought new locks for the whole house. Dead bolts. Motion detector lights and alarms. ADT is being installed Wednesday.
The children and new pup are staying at my house.
Friday night I told my son on the phone that his Dad and I were going to park out in front of his house after dark. We were parked a short while when this car came from around the corner of the street that goes behind his house. It quickly parked way down the street. My husband and I both felt someone watching us intently. The car was there about 3 minutes when it started up and came down the street toward us rather fast. When it got right up to us it swung over right in front of us so its headlights were shining right in at us and then quickly swung back over and went past us fast. I got the impression that the driver was pissed.
Now where do we go from here. If we call the cops, what do we say? That they got home and the dog was dead. They lost their phone and the window was unlocked. A bush got broken and they have 'feelings'. I don't think they would call any of it hard evidence. We feel this guy lives close by because of using the phone. We feel he is a pedophile and is after the 4 year old. He killed the dog so he could come back and not be attacked. He hung him in a fashion that would traumatize the children when they saw it. He wanted that. As it is, my son and daughter-in-law cannot get the image out of their minds. I am so glad the 4 year old did not see it. He went into a deep depression when he realized his dog had "left" and is paranoid that the new puppy will 'go away' too. We are all so emotional about this that it is hard to know what is fact and what is imagination.
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Edited by - Target on 24 June 2002 15:39:46