Keri McMullen says that her house was burgled after she updated her Facebook status to say that she was going to a concert.
Keri, and her boyfriend Kurt Pendleton, left a message on Facebook saying that they were heading out to a bar in New Albany, Indiana, to see band called Fire Department perform a set at 8pm. At 8:42pm, two men broke into the couple’s house.
More than $10,000 worth of goods were stolen in the burglary, which was captured on a surveillance camera recently installed in the house.
To her credit, Keri then used Facebook to her advantage – posting images of the suspects caught on camera to her Facebook wall, and realising that one of them had “friended” her some months before.
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