(4/3/03 - FITCHBURG, Mass.) — Kathy Spaulding thought the truck she and her sister passed on Route 12 looked awfully familiar.
The duct tape on the back window confirmed her suspicion _ it was her daughter's stolen pickup.
With some quick thinking and a little nerve, the two women Monday tracked down the truck and confronted the alleged thief when he tried to get away.
After Spaulding spotted the 1990 Ford Ranger, which had been stolen on Sunday, her sister, Janice Young, immediately began following it.
"I didn't give it a thought until after we did it," Young said.
They followed the truck for about five minutes to a Melrose Street address, parked behind it and called police. Before help arrived, the thief came out of the house.
Spaulding leapt out to confront him. "I said `Do you know whose it is? It's my daughter's, and it's stolen, so get out of here!"'
The man grabbed a few belongings out of the truck and fled on foot. Police have yet to arrest the suspect, who was picked out of a photo lineup by Spaulding.
Spaulding's daughter, Lorie, said she's proud of her mother and aunt.
"I asked the two of them if they wanted to be Cagney or Lacey," she said. You can join Unsolved Mysteries and post your own mysteries or
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