NORTH TEXAS – In Dallas, Shippy Barr’s fine jewelry disappeared .
“You have this feeling of helplessness, of… I couldn’t sleep at all that night,” Barr said.
In Houston, Keli Rabon was hit while her young sons were home with her.
“They made off with so much stuff… I’m beyond devastated,” she said.
Victims across Texas pieced together how the same two men posed as tree trimmers, one distracting them while the other broke into their homes.
The break in the case, though, came last week, more than a thousand miles away in a Pittsburg, Pennsylvania suburb.
“Right around 3:30 in the morning our officers are dispatched to Hammill Manufacturing,” said Penn Township Police Chief John Otto.
Otto says an officer responding to a burglar alarm found three men in a pickup with stolen goods. The small department says it happened at the same time it received a suspicious 911 call about an armed robbery across town.