Sarah Lavis

And so there was no broken end to that key was taken.

From inside my home.

And it wasn't until probably like years later and I'd said to my mum and she said, well, once he'd been convicted, they worked out that he was actually working at the house across the road.

for quite a few weeks.

So that's where it would have come from.

But at the time, I had no idea.

I had no idea who he was.

No, that was the big smoke for me because I grew up on a farm.

Yep, yep.

So I'd moved into town.

I had deadlocks on my doors.

I thought I was good, but because I kept locking myself out all the time, in the beginning I'd leave my kitchen window open a tiny bit, and I think that's where he first gained access to me.

took the key.

And then after a bit, I was like, oh, I really need to.

Once I thought maybe someone had been in there.

But still, you just think in your head, oh, I'm making it up.

I'm being silly.

I think because I was young, I didn't have a lot of stuff.

and so I'd noticed when things had just been moved slightly I'd noticed that things had been moved on the windowsill so I felt like maybe someone had come in but I kind of just mentioned it to my friends and everyone was like oh you know you have friends come over all the time like people move stuff so I wonder if maybe looking back it was more of a vibe as well like that feeling that you know that

Things aren't right.