9. September 2010: Ohio: A female Realtor (name withheld) was robbed while showing a vacant apartment building for sale. She was alone. She was held at gunpoint, robbed of her purse and threatened with death if she called the police.
10. Casper Wy: A Realtor received a call from a man who wanted to see a property near the mountain. She went to show the property alone. That man attacked the Realtor and nearly killed her with a knife he found on the kitchen counter.
11. July 2009: Ricardo Contreras, a Realtor was found murdered inside a Westchester home being shown to a prospective buyer.
12. 2008: Lindsay Buziak, A Victoria Canada Realtor:She was murdered while showing a lavish home in British Columbia. She was alone.
13. 2008: Michigan real estate agent Troy VanderStelt was murdered in 2008 during a meeting with 73-year-old client Robert Johnson. Johnson went into the agent’s office around 8 a.m. for a meeting. The men went into the conference room, and that’s when Johnson pulled a handgun and shot VanderStelt at point blank range in the face. The agent died.
14. 71-year-old Ann Nelson was robbed, strangled and beaten with a fireplace poker in 2008 while showing a home to a man she believed was a prospective home buyer.
15. 2007, Washington, DC : Samuel D'Costa, a Beltsville Realtor whose body was found in the basement of a Bowie home Friday was apparently killed while trying to sell the house..
16. St. Petersburg, FL, March 2006. A neatly dressed young man posing as a relocated Drug Enforcement Administration agent spent over four hours looking at houses with a real estate agent before asking to return to one of the first homes he had seen. She was alone. There he attacked her, took her car keys and purse while threatening to kill her with the gun and the 12-inch hunting knife he had concealed on his person.
17. Diamond Bar, CA: 2005: Newly licensed Realtor was shot and critically wounded while canvassing a neighborhood for clients.
18. Baltimore Md: 2004: Female Realtor (alone) was assaulted during an Open House by a visitor who looked around the house, then picked up an object and struck the agent on the back of the head.
19. Baltimore Md: 2004: Another Female Realtor (alone) during an Open House was lured to an isolated part of the house, tried to attack her, but she was able to fend him off. She believed it was intended as a sexual assault.
20. 13. DeKalb County, GA, May 2006. Within 11 days, three female real estate agents in DeKalb County reported being robbed at gunpoint by a man and woman. A month earlier another DeKalb County agent was abducted and forced to withdraw $1,500 from an ATM machine then taken to a jewelry store where she used credit cards to purchase a $7,500 Rolex watch for the robber. During the incident he frequently threatened to shoot her or "dismember" her if she did not cooperate.
21. 2003: 2-Realtors Murdered: While Georgia Realtors, Cyndi Williams and Lori Brown were working in their office after hours, they were robbed, stripped naked and shot in the head.
Note: This list is not to scare anyone but to empower, inform and help prepare a plan of Safety. This list is not complete
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