Neighbor's Nightmare

Monday, July 30th 2007, 10:07 am

By: News On 6

A Tulsa woman says she was terrorized by a man living next door to her. He broke in more than once, took her clothes, left his own shorts in her bedroom and cut up her shoes. Yet, he's not been arrested. Police say they can't do anything because he's developmentally disabled. News On 6 crime reporter Lori Fullbright reports he has been moved from that neighborhood, but DHS refuses to say where he's living now.

Sheila Daniels runs a wedding business. She moved out of her apartment because she felt unsafe and moved into a duplex in an east Tulsa neighborhood. She says everything was fine until a home care group, contracted by DHS, moved in some developmentally disabled men next door.

She says one of the men, burrowed a hole through his wall, into her side. Sheila found a note on her door from the home care workers, letting her know what happened.

"I guess he had done it several days before and put a dresser over it so he was smart enough to know he could do it and hide it, and they didn't find it,â€ Daniels said.

She says not long after that, the same man tried to climb over her back fence, but was grabbed by workers before he made it. She says another time, he cursed her and charged at her, fists raised, but was again stopped by a worker.

The last straw was when she woke up and noticed her closet was ransacked and her windows were open.

"I didn't have any clothes on, and I walked through, and there he was, the hole was open again, and he's staring at me. I was like, oh my God. I ran, got my clothes on and called 911,â€ said Daniels.

She noticed some of her clothes stuffed under her bed. A dress had been cut with scissors, and a pair of menâ€™s shorts was on her bedroom floor, plus her bra was missing.

Then, it even got even stranger. A pair of shoes were found broken, as if he had been wearing them, and another pair of shoes were cut up.

Daniels moved out immediately. She doesn't feel the home care company or the landlord did anything to protect her and she worries about the next unsuspecting person who ends up living next to this man in the future.

The owner of Eton Home Care says he's been in business five years, and this is his first incident. He says he fired one worker because of this.

After we called him Monday, he wrote a check to Sheila Daniels for her missing and destroyed clothing as well as her moving expenses, around $2,500. He says he's very sorry this happened.

The suspect has been moved, but we don't know if he's in a neighborhood or a facility.

DHS says if it publicized where these people were living, neighborhoods would say, "we don't want them here."

They say it's important to protect clients' privacy.

Watch the video: Woman Terrorized By Neighbor