15 Things Retired Detectives Teach Living Alone Seniors To Make Burglars Skip Their House At Night

15 Things Retired Detectives Teach Living Alone Seniors To Make Burglars Skip Their House At Night Back in two thousand nineteen, a retired schoolteacher named Eleanor Whitcomb, seventy-one and living alone, moved into a two-story house outside Greenville, South Carolina. No alarm sign in the yard. No camera over the porch. In the four years that followed, three houses on her street were broken into. Nobody ever tried Eleanor's door. The one thing she bought cost less than thirty dollars. It was not a gadget. The real secret was a handful of plain things she did every single evening, in order, and none of it shows from the street. You won't believe how simple they are.