Robber assaults woman, swipes her $350,000 wedding ring

Scott Doyle, says:

If it's insured, surely the cops will squint their eyes at anybody she knows. I've known people who would gladly take a beating to make a $350k insurance claim - not that I'd ever consider it...

Besides, it's not like taking a ring off someone's finger who's 'fighting back' is a simple task. Mischief is afoot.

Lisa Lawrence Merritt, says:

350k for a ring?

WTF? Someone got suckered!

Rawlins Gilliland, says:

Gotta luv how the DMN stories and police-quote comments invariably describe/label these incidents that take place in 'good' parts of our city as 'isolated' cases (this story, this week's Katy Trail story to name two) but when it happens anywhere else, they shrug it off as typical of the area.

Bottom line; you're probably safer leaving a Fiesta on Buckner than a Park Cities Whole Foods; less likely to be attacked tramping on foot in The Forest with your dog rather than riding a titanium racer on The Trail w/your iPod/iPhone.

Last year I took a friend on DART to Ledbetter and while we waited to return, she was nervous because her handbag was a $2000 Chanel. I told her no one would know what it was, few would care, and if they did they'd never assume it was real, etc., etc. She was probably safer than at NorthPark.

Do the math; where would you look for lucrative victims? (Sound effect of chorus groaning).

Pavel Lishin, says:

$350,000 wedding ring? I'm speechless.

I want to see this couple's house.

Rawlins Gilliland, says:

PS: In my 1980s upscale retail years, one of the most affluent customers never traveled with her 'real' jewelry but rather wore fakes abroad while her actual jewels remained locked up, safe at home.

The bad news: She was killed for her 11 carat zirconia. The good news; her daughter got the diamond.

Scott Doyle, says:

I don't know the details, but presuming the linked emails are legit...I sincerely hope cops get in touch with friends on this couple's phone list and chat with the neighbors. I'd definitely take a punch to the face if it meant splitting $350k. wink, wink

Scott Miller, says:

A number of years ago my dearly departed mother, who was seventy at the time, was working as a private nurse for a lady in a giant mansion in Preston Hollow. One night, when it was just the two of them in the house, she was sitting in the den watching TV when two men very quietly entered the house, came up behind her and pulled a pillow sack over her head then demanded to know where the jewelry was. She directed them to a jewelry box, they got some stuff (the real valuables were in a safe)ransacked the place a little and found more stuff, then left without hurting either of them. They told my mother to count to five hundred before she took the pillowcase off, which she did. She couldn't believe they left her alive. We couldn't believe she didn't have a heart attack.

Rawlins Gilliland, says:

Scott, your fascinating story is one of many I could recount about the under-the-radar theft/burglary/etc that take place (and took place) in upscale Dallas areas.

FYI, my step father was shot and killed (unsolved murder) by seven point blank bullets from an intruder's gun while watching TV in his recliner in his Lakewood home (on Loving Street) next to White Rock Lake in 1991. The newspaper never mentioned what part of the city it took plae in. But that same day a hit and run death of an Asian pedestrian at the corner of Carroll and Bryan was properly reported as being in 'East Dallas'. FYI, Lakewood is in East Dallas.

Lisa Lawrence Merritt, says:

1) A woman who wears a 350K ring would never do her own grocery shopping because that chore is left to staff.

2) A woman who wears a 350K ring would also never struggle taking a child from a car seat because that is left to the nanny.

3) When will Dallas learn? Just because ya can afford to buy it doesn't mean you should or even wear it.

This story is trumped up BS or…

Proof that another Douche from the Hollow married a has been stripper and they have more money than sense.

Scott Doyle, says:

They have plenty of sense, welcome to insurance fraud.

I used to know a girl who's mother got a new set of pearly whites by letting someone slam a door in her face at work - collected on worker's comp (this was before I knew her, mind you). People commit insurance fraud all the time, and why the hell else would you buy a $350k ring? Maybe I'm crazy, but I'm of the mind that most people who could afford this ring are not stupid enough to buy it. Doyle smells BS.

Scott Doyle, says:

Since I've been harping on insurance fraud...

http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/...