TUMWATER, Wash. — Rebecca Blevins knew something was wrong when she saw wet, dirty footprints across her tile floor Tuesday night.
She knew they did not belong to her or her fiancé and led to the bedroom where her 18-month-old son, Kameron, was asleep.
“Footsteps leading to my bathroom, my closet and his crib,” said Blevins, “Literally to where he could have been touching the rail to my son’s crib.”
Her fiancé, Dante Higgins, checked the closet and found a man hiding inside.
"I wasn't scared. I wasn't anything," Higgins said. "I was more trying to protect her and little KJ here."
Blevins had Higgins search the ground floor and Kameron's bedroom.
"He checked the bathroom, nothing in there. He checked the downstairs closet, there was nothing in there. So he put his hand on the main closet and he was really hoping no one was there."
But when he opened it, a man came charging out.
“The dude shoulder checked him before we could get a good look at him,” said Blevins.
She said the man ran out of the back sliding door and could not be found by Tumwater police.
Higgins described him as a white male in his late 30s wearing a dark-colored Carhartt jacket.
The couple said it happened around 8 p.m. Tuesday. It was raining at the time.
No one got hurt, but Blevins said she doesn’t like thinking what might have happened to her son.
“He’s my whole world,” said Blevins, “The cops think we may have stopped a kidnapping.”