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 had been free on bond in one alleged sock caper when police say he was caught with socks that had been taken from someone's laundry room Monday morning in a St. Louis suburb.
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.
"He cries to me all the time, `Mom, I hate myself. I'd rather be dead than live like this,'" the 59-year-old mother told The Associated Press.
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.
In 1997, Dowdy got a six-year sentence for breaking into another woman's home and stealing socks. In 2004, he was sentenced to seven years in prison after pleading guilty to attempted residential burglary, a felony reportedly tied to his strolling into a female neighbor's home for her socks.
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