FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A South Florida couple is asking for help tracking down the people who broke into their home and stole jewelry valued at more than $250,000.
“I felt as though I failed,” said homeowner Skip Bown. “Because I should have been able to protect my family.”
Skip and Rosemary Bown have been married for 47 years, and during those four decades, Skip bought his wife plenty of jewelry.
“All that jewelry is gone,” he said. “It’s something I wouldn’t wish on anyone except the gentleman that took it.”
Several hundred pieces were taken from the couple’s Fort Lauderdale home back on May 9.
“Rings, pendants, watches, necklaces, Pandora jewelry box, mostly from our children,” said Skip Bown.
Surveillance video captured one burglar with a mask on near the pool area outside the home.
The suspects used a brick to break a hole through a hurricane impact glass door before reaching through the hole and unlocking the door.
“If you have a piece left to you from your mother, that’s gone and it can’t be replaced,” said Rosemary Bown.
Video shows one of the burglars leaving with most of the jewelry in her beach bag.
“He took my security, he took my pride,” Rosemary Bown said. “He took my soul.”
Anyone with information or who thinks they recognize the people in the video is urged to call Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS.