Missing a Sock?

You know how socks always seem to come up missing and you end up with a sock with no mate?

If you're a woman living in Belleville, Ill., perhaps this guy has paid you a visit:

(AP) James Dowdy has gone to prison three times, and may go there again, for the same crime: burglarizing homes and stealing women's socks.
Dowdy's mother, Linda, said he needs to be institutionalized to get psychiatric treatment for the fixation she says has tormented him most of his life. She thinks the fetish took hold when he clung to some of her socks as keepsakes when he was forced to live for a year with his dad as a child.
In 1994, Dowdy was sentenced to three years in prison for trying to burglarize a home, ultimately getting caught by police with a bag of socks.
Early Monday, a man told police he saw a stranger crawling out of his basement window after his 15-year-old daughter heard someone downstairs. Sax said police dogs led officers to the house where Dowdy lives with his mother, and socks taken from the caller's basement laundry room were found in his bedroom.

It's kinda creepy and a little sad. Click here for the full story.