Sounds like you've been living a nightmare, Dan.

My mother had a old so-called "friend" who stole a whole lot of valuable jewelry from her about a month and a half before she died...this despite my having most strongly advised her for at least the last decade to stay away from this phony "friend" whose whole life is based on ripping off people. This was an older woman, by the way, a woman in her 50s. It's not just young male creeps with tattoos who menace society....though I will readily admit that they certainly pose a higher risk statistically than 55 year old women do!