03-07-2011, 12:04 PM
(03-07-2011, 11:56 AM)Methusala Wrote: My recollection is that the security system papers were found in plain view by LE.
This could mean that JC and/or LS may have been annoyed by the system and foolishly disarmed it soon after her parents left. I suggest this possibility because some people grow impatient with having to remember to press the proper buttons to stop the alarm from going off when entering and leaving.
Or JC might have disarmed it while LS was at work, if he himself was looking for a safe or valuables in the house.
The paperwork would have of course told how to disarm or modify the settings on the system and, in addition, the parents may have made the common error of writing the security code on or in the manual.
Or, the perpetrators may have had the papers out in order to disarm the system before going upstairs to look for the safe.
A security system can have zones of protection, some turned on and some turned off.
Good morning, Methusala.
Another possibility that had crossed my mind was that the perpetrators believed there was a safe in the house. When LS and JC could not provide the location for a safe that wasn't there, the perpetrators demanded the paperwork to ascertain whether the security company had installed one.