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Wife Stunned After Husband Bulldozes Their Home While She’s Away

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ABC house destroyed1 ml 150121 16x9 992?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1421861876906WABC-TV(MIDDLETOWN, N.Y.) — A woman in New York state came home to find her husband had torn down their suburban home while she was away.

Homeowner Diane Andryshak of Middletown, New York, 60 miles northwest of New York City, said she came home to an empty lot where she lived with her husband of nine years.

“None of my belongings were taken out. Everything was in the house. I’m in shock, still I’m in shock,” she told ABC station WABC.

“I don’t know what happened. I don’t know anything. I know that when I got here he was already down at the police station. We were not fighting, we were not arguing,” Andryshak told WABC.

Her husband, James Rhein, allegedly rented an excavator without a permit and bulldozed the single-family home on Monday morning. Police say he was charged with criminal mischief and released on $300 bail, police said.

The couple was renovating the home, and he allegedly told investigators that the house was in a state of disarray and couldn’t be repaired, WABC reported.

“I asked him just kidding around if he was going to knock down the house with a bulldozer, and he said, ‘Yeah.’ I thought he was kidding. So I went to work and when I came back this is what we found,” neighbor Steve Belfiglio told WABC.

Unfortunately, now the couple is homeless.

“I have family and friends, right now I’m staying with a friend,” Andryshak told WABC. “I don’t have any answers for you, I don’t have any answers for you whatsoever.”



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