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Sister denies Craigslist Tacoma home hoax

02:42 PM PDT on Monday, April 9, 2007

KING5.com Staff

Raw video of trashed home

TACOMA, Wash. - A woman who had been evicted from a Tacoma house says she did not place the Craigslist ad that invited people to take anything they wanted from the house for free.

Lisa Scearcy admits she has a feud with her sister, Laurie Raye, who owns the house, but was not responsible for the hoax that led to the house being stripped.

"I didn't do it," Scearcy told The News Tribune on Friday.  "Honest to God, on my mon's grave, no I didn't."

Lots of people saw or heard about the offer and on March 30th chaos ensued.  Neighbors say they saw strangers pull up and haul away all sorts of stuff.  Nearly everything of value had been stripped.  Light fixtures, mirrors, baseboards, the hot water heater, cabinets, even the kitchen sink.

"The instigator who published this ad invited the public to come in and vandalize me," owner Raye told KING 5 News.

"In the ad, it said come and take what you want," said Raye as she looked over what little was left in the home.

Raye said she recently evicted her sister – leading some to speculate that Scearcy may be behind the ad.  Raye won't say why she evicted Scearcy and said she doesn't believe her sister placed the ad.  "She's not smart enough," she said.

Scearcy admits she and her sister don't get along.  They've had domestic violence protection orders against each other.

Scearcy told The News Tribune she wasn't legally evicted by Raye, just kicked out.  She said she left the house on March 23, went back a few days later to get some of her belongings and said the house looked fine.

It wasn't until Saturday, the 31st, when she went back to pick up her mail that she saw the damage.

"I was like, 'Oh my gosh,'" she said.

Tacoma police are still investigating but have said the sibling rivalry is one of the reasons they're not looking at this as a criminal case.  They say it's a civil matter.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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