Rick DeVecchi and his family had just gotten to the Berkeley Warehouse on the morning of Thursday, December 17, 1998. Just after 7:10 am that morning, a fellow employee at the business witnessed a stranger going through the back of Rick's pickup truck., Just before 7:15 am, Richard and the fellow employee went out to investigate the situation. By that time, however, the stranger had already gotten into his automobile, a 1970s or early 1980s tan or white colored Cadillac.
