A 91-year-old widow was home alone when she realized that two burglars were trying to break into her home. But by setting up a trap for the robbers, the older woman outsmarted them. Vernon Jones had pledged to stay with Dolores till the end of their life and even go to their heavenly home with her when he asked for her hand in marriage. Unfortunately, destiny wasn’t so kind to their plans, and one day Vernon abruptly had a heart attack and had to leave Dolores. Following Vernon’s death, Dolores found herself largely isolated.
The tiny antique shop run by Vernon, a well-known antiquarian in town, was doing very well. Additionally, he kept some of his priceless antiques at home, which the neighbors soon noticed and began chatting about. This resulted in several attempts to rob Dolores and Vernon’s home and business.
Dolores thus felt unsafe in her house when Vernon passed away. Everyone in her neighborhood knew she was alone. She was therefore too scared to accept assistance from her neighbors, even when they gave it. Dolores saw Bob, her 31-year-old neighbor, looking through the front gate of her house one evening as she was on her way home from her shop. Pretending not to notice Dolores, he hurried away as soon as he spotted her approaching.
According to the reports Dolores had heard, Bob was unemployed and an alcoholic, and his wife had moved in with her parents after leaving him. Since then, the man had been living alone at his home, where he would spend his days drinking or wandering the neighborhood, savoring the attention of other ladies. Dolores knew Bob was strange, so she initially ignored him. But the following day, she noticed that he was looking at her. She was reading a book on her balcony when she caught him staring at her through his bedroom window just as she was ready to go on to the next chapter. The way he continued to stare at her made her feel uneasy, so she walked inside and closed the door to her balcony. Later, she discovered Bob was gone when she glanced out the window to see if he was still on the window sill.
Ever since that day, Dolores had a nagging feeling that something wasn’t quite right. Because of this, she was very careful and often secured all her windows and doors. But one night, while she was in the kitchen making tea, she heard an odd sound coming from her backyard. Despite her fear, she made an effort to maintain her composure. Taking a pan, she slowly unlocked the rear door. The door of her old house groaned as it opened, and she saw Bob and another man leap over the wooden fence in the backyard and head off.
“If you don’t go, I’ll contact the police! Why in the world are you here? When Dolores noticed them emerging from a bush, she yelled at them, but they fled silently upon learning of the presence of the police. Dolores found a number of beer bottles laying in the forest when she went there. Dolores had trouble falling asleep that night. She kept thinking about the potential that Bob and his accomplice might have tried to hurt her every time she closed her eyes. What if they hadn’t managed to get away? What if there was a problem?
She needed to take action since she felt things were becoming hazardous, but she couldn’t even tell the police until she had concrete proof against Bob. The only thing she could do, Dolores thought, was to be alert. In order to install new locks and cameras around her house and backyard, she hired a handyman the following day. In order to stop Bob or anybody else from attempting to break into her home again, she made the decision to monitor the area around it. After studying the security camera footage all day, Dolores failed to spot anything unusual. Thinking that Bob would be alarmed given her earlier warning, she went to bed that night feeling comforted.
But around midnight, she was awakened by a loud noise coming from the backyard. The first thought was that it might have been Bob once more! Dolores was informed that someone had broken into her yard when she hurried to the living room and switched on the monitor to look at the security cameras. However, the backyard cameras were malfunctioning.
Calm and unaffected, she tiptoed to the kitchen window. She spotted two black-clad creatures wandering around her house as she gently raised the window shade. Their faces were hidden, making it impossible for Dolores to identify them. She did, however, hear them talking about looting her home. She made the decision that she needed to come up with a plan to save herself before it was too late.