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Samuel A. Watson confessed his process to police

(NEWSER) - So you want to rob some houses, but you’re not sure where to start? Well, Samuel A. Watson came up with the idea to use Google Maps, he admits to Chicago police. Watson, suspected of breaking into as many as nine homes since March, “said he Googled ‘expensive homes along highways,’ and Indian Head Park and Burr Ridge came up,” says an officer. “He used the satellite view on those homes where you can see 360 degrees." More»

(NEWSER) - Jon Gosselin's former girlfriend has been questioned by police investigating a break-in at the former reality TV star's Manhattan apartment. Hailey Glassman was interviewed with her lawyer present after Gosselin reported that his home, which he used to share with Glassman, had been ransacked, Radar reports. An NYPD rep said: "There is an investigation. We are not making any further comment at this time." More»

Perp sliced and diced all Jon's stuff, left love note

(NEWSER) - In the ever-more-tragic saga that is Jon Gosselin's trainwreck of a life, some "sick perpetrator" wielding a "butcher knife" sliced and diced his Manhattan bachelor pad. The slash-happy burglar carved his "shoes, shirts, luggage, bed, curtain, rugs, and other furnishings" to shreds, made off with his TV, Wii, coffeemaker, and pots and pans—then lovingly "speared" a note to Gosselin's dresser with the aforementioned butcher knife. More»

(NEWSER) - Three men were caught on tape breaking into Lindsay Lohan’s Hollywood Hills house this morning, TMZ reports. The actress discovered the burglary when she came home at 3am, then called her father. "The safe was ripped out of the wall, and the door was off the hinges and door handles removed," Lohan’s mother tells People. "Bags, shoes and jewelry were taken too.” More»

Nothing else taken; police suspect culprit knew the family

(NEWSER) - A burglar broke into a Michigan home last week and made off with just one peculiar, cruel piece of loot: an urn containing a 12-year-old boy’s ashes. When Dave Turnquist came home Friday, he found the window of his house broken, and his bedroom ransacked, but the only thing missing was the steel urn containing stepson Ryan McDonald’s ashes. “We had valuables,” the boy’s mother, Wendy Turnquist, tells the Detroit Free Press . “They weren’t touched.” More»