On the drive to school on Thursday, Oct. 9, a young girl asked her mom what she was doing in her room at 6:30 am.
The mom had not been in her room though, and the question made her realize that a stranger had been in their Blind Bay home earlier that morning.
After dropping her daughter at school, the woman returned home to find two laptops, two cell phones, tools, a bicycle and $100 had been stolen.
She called the RCMP to report the theft around 10 am.
Officers arrived at the scene and met with the woman, learning that her daughter was awoken by a woman in her bedroom hours earlier.
It was still dark at the time and the girl, assuming the woman was her mother, quickly fell back to sleep.
“There was no forced entry,” an RCMP release noted. “The woman’s husband had left early for work and left the front door unlocked, which was the suspected entry point.”
Police received two other reports of a suspicious woman in the area, but say they were unable to locate her despite “extensive patrols” in the area over several hours.
The stolen bicycle was found down the road from the home and the RCMP suspects the women ditched it before hitchhiking a ride on the Trans-Canada Highway.
Forensic identification was completed on several items, but no fingerprints were obtained
