Scarecrow Display Taken From Downtown Waukesha Store Returned

WAUKESHA, WI—A Halloween display stolen from outside Waukesha chocolate store has been located.

Staff at Allô! Chocolate, located at 234 W. Main St., showed off an upside-down scarecrow with a bag from the store. Store manager Crystal Radebaugh said on Monday morning it had vanished.

"I was so sad because we have seen people taking selfies with him," she said.

On Thursday Radebaugh told Patch someone turned in the scarecrow to the authorities. Patch reached out to the Waukesha Police Department on Thursday afternoon.

The purpose of having the scarecrow was to encourage people to come to check out the store. The store posted on social media with a reward offering of chocolate if the scarecrow was returned.

"Social media can be powerful to get people to notice," she said.

Still missing is a purple silhouette from The Women's Center.

A purple silhouette representing a victim of domestic violence was stolen sometime Sunday night from outside the center, 505 N. East Ave. in Waukesha.

Angela Mancuso, executive director of The Women's Center, said the missing silhouette represented one of the victims of the October 2012 shooting at the Azana Salon and Spa in Brookfield.

Radcliffe Haughton killed his estranged wife, Zina Haughton, 42, of Brown Deer, and two other women, Cary L. Robuck, 35, of Racine and Maelyn M. Lind, 38, of Oconomowoc, at the salon before taking his own life.

"It is disrespectful to the survivors and victims of the Azana shooting and The Women's Center and our clients," Mancuso said.

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The display of 12 to 15 purple silhouettes was created in 1992 to represent lives lost to domestic violence.

On Tuesday Mancuso posted a sigh where the silhouette once stood.

It reads, " Her life was stolen and now her silhouette. She deserves better. Bring her back!"