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Thanks to the person who sent in this link to the DCist tipline. We're still trying to wrap our heads around this crime story announced by the Georgetown University Department of Public Safety, about a strange home invasion burglary in the 3400 Block of Prospect St. NW:

A homeowner reported to the Metropolitan Police Department at approximately 3:30 a.m. on Sunday, September 21, 2008 that a group of 12-15 white males and females broke into his home. Another resident of the home confronted the individuals and they left the premises. The homeowner discovered that a bronze bull's head sculpture worth $25,000 was missing. MPD reported this incident to DPS on Tuesday, September 23, 2008.

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WJLA is all over the news that Montgomery County investigators linked DNA evidence from the crime scene of the homicide of a Bethesda area woman to two other home-invasion burglaries in the neighborhood. There have been a series of six similar home-invasions in the general area from Potomac to The Palisades over the last year, the most recent one resulting in the killing of Mary Havenstein, 63.