A Wrentham woman and her family were at her father’s funeral. Then they were notified their home alarm went off.
Daniel Lennon, 37, also allegedly had documents with addresses of families planning to attend funeral services, Franklin police say.
MaryFran Randall of Wrentham was at the funeral for her father, Daniel McIsaac, on Saturday when her home’s alarm began going off.The alarm hadn’t been triggered since Randall, her husband, and two small children had the home surveillance system installed — a notion that gave them the idea that this may not be a false alarm.It wasn’t. Now, a Stoughton man is being charged with not only breaking into the Randalls’ home, but also that of Randall’s late father in Franklin — Randall’s husband thought to call Franklin police with concern that McIsaac’s home could also be targeted. It turns out that’s where suspect Daniel Lennon was located, along with “signs of a break in,” police said. Other communities are now checking to see if Lennon forced himself into residents’ homes — Franklin police said they found “documents indicating Lennon had been targeting homes of families who had lost family members, and would be attending services for them.”Lennon, 37, was arraigned in Wrentham District Court on Tuesday on charges of possession of a burglarious instrument, disorderly conduct, breaking and entering for a misdemeanor, vandalizing property, and possession of a class E drug out of Franklin. Wrentham police have also charged him with breaking and entering a building during the daytime for a felony, according to the court clerk’s office. In addition, the U.S. Marshal’s Office had an outstanding warrant out for Lennon, Franklin police said.For the Randall family, MaryFran said the incident pulled focus away from memorializing her father’s life, and has also taken a toll on the couple’s 4-year-old daughter, who cried before bed the other night out of fear.“It seemed like, according to the alarm log, he opened the door from the kitchen into the basement and either heard the alarm or the dogs scared him away,” she said, noting that the family has four dogs. “But he kind of open and closed [it], then left and went to my dad’s house in Franklin.”The Randalls had removed the valuables from McIsaac’s home after he died, Randall said. From their home, the only thing missing was a collection of change in a jar in the basement.“I just keep saying that it’s really heartbreaking because instead of being able to grieve for my dad, we were stuck dealing with something else, like a whole other thing, that we couldn’t really focus on my dad at all,” Randall said, noting that her father raised her from the time her mother died when she was 5.For Lennon, Randall spoke compassionately.“It makes me feel sad because you have to realize that he’s gotten to that point in his life,” she said.While Randall said it’s felt “weird” speaking with news sources about what happened, she said she wants others to know that this can happen.“I feel like it shines a light that this is something that is a reality unfortunately, and it happens,” she said.Randall called the timing of the incident “crazy,” noting that the family believes that her father, a Vietnam War veteran and former teacher to students with learning disabilities, was with them that day.“We thought, he’s still watching over us,” she said.
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