Robbery

Today at 2:50pm we were robbed.  At 3:00pm John called me at work.  There was a pause on the phone and he said "well our TV is gone, our room is a mess."  My heart sank.  I knew what had happened.  There has been a rash of robberies, attempted robberies, etc in our area; and for a few weeks now I have had this un-easy feeling.
 Every morning before we left the house the kids and I would hide things that we felt were of value to a thief.  This particular day, I just didn't feel right.  I went back inside the house after getting the kids into the car and hid the laptop.  I thought about locking the door that goes from the garage into the house, but I didn't (I should have listened to that voice).
At approximately 2:50pm some thieves pulled into our back yard and drove across our lawn.  They attempted to pry open a metal security screen door, bent the screen on our bedroom window, bent the screen on our garage window and then decided to kick in the door going from the garage outside.  Once they got in the garage, the door going from the garage into the house was open and they gained access into the house.  After 60 seconds our alarm sounded and the alarm company called.  Our answering machine says the message out loud so the thieves heard the alarm company saying that they were calling about an alarm sounding.  One minute after the alarm company called our house, they called John's phone.  John ran home from work as fast as he could, but the thieves had already done their damage and were gone.  We estimate that the thieves only had 4-5 minutes once they gained entry into our home.  We are assuming there was more than one person because of the amount of damage done in a matter of a few minutes and by the fingerprints we found. 
The thieves got away with our TV, John's scriptures, Ashlee's scriptures, a bag, a necklace and a bracelet.  They ate some cookies and dropped their crumbs down the hallway on their way out and peeled out on our lawn and driveway as they sped away.
 Later on that night after things calmed down, the kids and I drove down the road and we were able to recover Ashlee's scriptures, some empty jewelry boxes and some papers that were inside of John's scriptures.
 As bad as this situation was it could have been a whole lot worse.  Things have not been the same since the robbery.  We are all shaken, scared and on edge in our own home.  We do not want to be in our house, but we don't want to leave our either.  Every noise startles us, every suspicious car makes us wonder if they could be the ones.  The girls slept together in the same room for 5 days with baseball bats next to them. Every night we sleep with the gun on the night stand and everyday when we leave our home, we take things with us.  We figure are valuables are safer with us than in our own home. 
The detective was able to get a partial hand print off the garage window, but so far we have not heard from them.  So I guess that means they haven't found a match.  As messed up as the whole criminal/government system is these days, they will probably never find the scum bags, and if they do find the scum bags, they will probably just get a slap on the hand and be right back at their life of crime in a matter of days. 
We do have renters insurance, but in this situation it does not do us any good.  They got away with approximately $1100-$1200 worth of stuff and our deductible is $1,000.  So it isn't worth it for us to pay a $1,000 to get $100-$200 worth of coverage.  Our luck!

They dumped every drawer out of the dressers and nightstands in our room and tossed stuff everywhere.

 The hole in the entertainment center where our 46 inch TV use to be.

 The door going from the outside into the garage that they kicked in.  From the size of the foot print.  The person has a big foot.

 Our bedroom window that they tried to get in.

 Marks on the security door where they tried to pry it open.

Three finger prints on the trim by the entertainment center

Skinny finger prints by alarm keypad and light switch.  I found these prints 2 days later, but the sheriffs office said they couldn't use these prints because walls are too porous!

Larger prints near the alarm keypad and light switch.