THOMASVILLE, Ga. — A Thomasville woman returned to her North Martin Luther King Drive home midafternoon Thanksgiving to find it ransacked, the stove on and snacks open on her kitchen table.

The rear door opened on its own as the resident attempted to open it with a key, a Thomasville Police Department incident report said.

Cushions on a sofa had been removed and overturned as though someone was looking for something.

The kitchen light was on. Cabinet doors were open. The oven door was open, and the stove was on.

Boxes of children’s snack cakes and cookies had been opened and left on the kitchen table.

Dresser drawers in bedrooms had been gone through, but nothing appeared to be missing from the house.

Walking through the residence, police noticed that neither flat-screen TVs nor other electronics had been taken.

Officers found distinctive footprints on the rear door where it was kicked open. Pieces of the door and the door handle were lying on the floor in the house.

The report says the same footprints, joined by others, walked around the rear of the house. Both sets of prints left the house headed in the direction of Westover Avenue.

On Wednesday morning, a clerk at a store in the 1200 block of East Jackson Street saw a man enter the store and canvass the business before walking to the soap section.

The employee saw the man put seven eight-count packages of soap and a bottle of body wash in a book bag. The clerk told the man to empty the book bag and leave the store.

The suspect returned the merchandise and left the business on foot. The incident was recorded on video, which police will receive as evidence.

Senior reporter Patti Dozier can be reached at (229) 226-2400, ext. 1820