Naked Man On Loose

I love it when a writer makes you keep reading. Erin Sullivan: NEW PORT RICHEY — She figured the porch light burned out. It was about 1 a.m. Wednesday and Vickie Bankowski was just getting home from seeing her sister in Tampa. The doorway was dark and her two Shih Tzus — Gizmo, 7, and Beethoven, 5 — weren't in the window waiting for her, as they always do. When Bankowski, 56, unlocked the door to her home on Blayton Street, only Beethoven ran outside. He didn't want to come back in. She still didn't think much was wrong. She scooped him up, went inside and closed the door.

The lamp on her end table was smashed on the floor.

"You two have been reckless," she said to Beethoven, thinking he and Gizmo knocked it over playing.

Then she noticed the light that she always leaves on for them in the kitchen was off. She set down her purse and turned on the hallway light.

She saw blood.