Condom Used As Fake Breast May Be Key Clue In Hunt For Cross Dressing Purse Snatcher
Posted September 4, 2008 12:00 pm.
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Cops agree it’s one of their odder cases – and they still haven’t found their man.
But that may be because he’s dressed like a woman.
Purse snatchings aren’t all that unusual a crime these days, but authorities in Port St. Lucie, Florida have to admit they’ve never quite come across anything like this. It happened when a 74-year-old victim standing on a street was accosted by a man dressed as a woman, who grabbed her handbag as he ran past her.
But this wasn’t a perfect crime. As he left the scene of the cowardly act, the assailant dropped a key clue – a condom filled with water that he’d apparently been using to fill out a fake breast.
The victim describes her attacker as wearing a short denim skirt and a black tube top. He fled in a silver coloured car that contained what she called two other male crossdressers.
Authorities are hoping the now drained condom yields vital DNA or fingerprint evidence that won’t let this culprit skirt the law.