May 17, 2025 • 5 mins
What would you do if you came home to find a naked man in your bed, your kitchen ransacked, and your Buddha statue used as a murder weapon… against a possum?In this jaw-dropping episode of The Ben and Skin Show, the crew dives into one of the most bizarre and unsettling stories you’ll ever hear. Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray welcome NBC LA reporter Michael Duarte, who recounts the surreal moment he returned home to find his house violated in the most unexpected ways.The intruder didn’t just break in—he devoured ice cream sandwiches, veggie burgers, and chewed through 60 pieces of gum before spitting it out in one massive wad.Duarte describes the chilling moment he spotted a naked man lying in his bed: “I just backed out like Homer Simpson into the bushes.”In a twist that’s both tragic and absurd, the intruder used a Buddha statue to kill a neighborhood possum. “The irony of that…” Skin remarks.Within 10 minutes, Duarte’s home was surrounded by 10 squad cars and a police helicopter. “It was like a scene out of a movie.”
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
But right now, we want to get into a story
that Kat brought to us. Yesterday, a man in Los
Angeles returned to his home and found a naked intruder.
This guy had eaten his ice cream sandwiches, his veggie burgers,
and chewed sixty pieces of gum and then left it
in one giant, big wad and just spit it out.
And Kat has tracked the gentleman down, not the guy
(00:21):
who was naked in the bed, but the guy whose
house got violated. He is a reporter for NBC Los Angeles.
He joins us down, Michael Duarte, how you doing today, Michael?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I'm doing okay.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I'm still feeling a little violated, unsettled, but you know,
I'm glad everybody is safe, and I can kind of
look back now and laugh at it a little bit
about the absurdity of it all.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Like, okay, so walk us through exactly what happened as
you return home and find a naked dude that's eating
all your ice cream sandwiches.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Return home around midnight.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I had been at a friend's fortieth birthday party a
little bit earlier in the evening, which had delayed my
return home, and as I went to enter with my
pets through the kitchen. I could look through the window
and notice that the entire kitchen had been ransacked. And
my first thought, guys, was what animal had broken has done? This?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Was this rats? Was this raccoons? It just didn't make
sense to me.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
And as I started to kind of assess the situation
and look around the kitchen, I could see my back
windows had been broken into, not just one window, but
three different windows. And that's when I kind of backed away,
put the pets back in the car and said I'm
going to keep looking to assess the situation. I didn't
call the police at that time. I decided to keep
(01:34):
looking to see what damage had been done and get
more information, I suppose is the best way to phrase it.
Then I started checking my cameras on my ring to
see if I could see any signs of break in
or somebody coming up.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I couldn't see it. And then I got to the
front door.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I put the key in, I opened the door, and
as I'm doing that, I'm looking inside and realizing my
bedroom door is wide open, and I never leave it
wide open. And then I looked closer and I see
that there's a naked man in my bed and as
cool as a cucumber as I could have possibly been
under the situation. I just backed out, kind of like
Homer Simpson and that meme, back into the bushes, lock
(02:11):
the door, go back down to the street, and I
called the police.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
How long did it take him to get there? And
was the man still in your bed when the police arrived?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yes, correct, he was still in the bed when the
police arrived. It only took him ten minutes to get there.
I didn't know when I called the police if they
were going to be here in ten minutes or if
they were going to be here in two hours. But thankfully,
the police this time arrived pretty quickly, in about ten minutes,
and they showed up full like swat team style. I
would say ten police squad cars, police helicopter with a
(02:42):
floodlight on my house. It was like a scene out
of a movie. They surrounded my house. They were prepared
for anything. Okay, So the story takes a weird twist
when there was a possum killed in the backyard with
a statue.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
What was the statue? What's going on there?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
It felt like a very almost juvenile twist to this
crazy story right.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
So you know, I've been getting a lot of comments
and messages from friends who've seen the stories. La Times
picked it up also in addition to NBC. It just
so happens I work for NBC. So when I was
checking in with my boss the next day saying, Hey,
guess what happened to me last night, they were like,
oh my gosh, we want to do a story on this.
But so I got been getting lots of texts from
friends and colleagues, and you know, they're laughing at the situation.
(03:21):
The chewing gum, you mentioned, the ice cream sandwiches, the
veggie burgers, all this stuff. But as I said, it
didn't feel funny or hilarious in the moment. But to
your point, once he's in jail, I get to go
do a walk through with the police, and it's there
we finally discover what this person got into in my house,
what damage he did, what other places of the house
(03:41):
he was in other than what I was able to see,
you know, through the windows. Part of the whole story
and the piece of the puzzle finally start to fit
together and we kind of discover what happened. And he
was spotted by several neighbors walking the street Saturday afternoon
around two three pm, talking to himself, yelling and cursing profanities.
It go that seemingly nobody and nobody did anything. Nobody
(04:03):
called the police, nobody alerted our neighbors through texts or anything.
They just kind of got scared and went in their
homes and locked their doors and hoped that he didn't show.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Up on their doorstep.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
But he showed up on mine, and I wasn't home,
so he made his way to my back patio where
I have like an outdoor couch and an outdoor coffee
table and a Buddhist statue and a bunch of dodgers
garden gnomes and candles and just kind of nice decorative things.
I think he went up there and kind of took
a nap for a little bit and then decided to
smash everything. And there is a possum that shows up
(04:34):
on my cameras in the backyard and crosses my backyard
to my front yard to the street and almost every night.
And the poor possum was coming through again like he
normally does, and this intruder decided he was going to
take my Buddhist statue and kill him.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
And he smashed him. The irony of that.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yeah, and left him up there and just destroyed and ransacked,
smashing everything up top. And my guess can only be
either just you know, some delusional ang rage or maybe
he was looking for a high to key or something
to get into the house. He then decides to come
back down through the back and break in. Uh, like
I said, through that back door to the kitchen, and
once he goes in, it's like Goldilocks and the Three
(05:12):
Bears at this point, right.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Well, man, thank you for taking the time to join us.
We'll continue to hope for your absolute safety and hope
you don't get any more encounters like this.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Yeah, I appreciate it. I'm beefing up security here.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Thank you for your time. There, he goes Michael Doorte,
the guy whose house got broken into, and pretty scary stuff.
But right now, we want to get into a story
that Kat brought to us. Yesterday, a man in Los
Angeles returned to his home and found a naked intruder.
This guy had eaten his ice cream sandwiches, his veggie burgers,
and chewed sixty pieces of gum and then left it
in one giant, big wad and just spit it out.
And Kat has tracked the gentleman down, not the guy
(00:21):
who was naked in the bed, but the guy whose
house got violated. He is a reporter for NBC Los Angeles.
He joins us down, Michael Duarte, how you doing today, Michael?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I'm doing okay.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I'm still feeling a little violated, unsettled, but you know,
I'm glad everybody is safe, and I can kind of
look back now and laugh at it a little bit
about the absurdity of it all.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Like, okay, so walk us through exactly what happened as
you return home and find a naked dude that's eating
all your ice cream sandwiches.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Return home around midnight.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I had been at a friend's fortieth birthday party a
little bit earlier in the evening, which had delayed my
return home, and as I went to enter with my
pets through the kitchen. I could look through the window
and notice that the entire kitchen had been ransacked. And
my first thought, guys, was what animal had broken has done? This?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Was this rats? Was this raccoons? It just didn't make
sense to me.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
And as I started to kind of assess the situation
and look around the kitchen, I could see my back
windows had been broken into, not just one window, but
three different windows. And that's when I kind of backed away,
put the pets back in the car and said I'm
going to keep looking to assess the situation. I didn't
call the police at that time. I decided to keep
(01:34):
looking to see what damage had been done and get
more information, I suppose is the best way to phrase it.
Then I started checking my cameras on my ring to
see if I could see any signs of break in
or somebody coming up.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I couldn't see it. And then I got to the
front door.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I put the key in, I opened the door, and
as I'm doing that, I'm looking inside and realizing my
bedroom door is wide open, and I never leave it
wide open. And then I looked closer and I see
that there's a naked man in my bed and as
cool as a cucumber as I could have possibly been
under the situation. I just backed out, kind of like
Homer Simpson and that meme, back into the bushes, lock
(02:11):
the door, go back down to the street, and I
called the police.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
How long did it take him to get there? And
was the man still in your bed when the police arrived?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yes, correct, he was still in the bed when the
police arrived. It only took him ten minutes to get there.
I didn't know when I called the police if they
were going to be here in ten minutes or if
they were going to be here in two hours. But thankfully,
the police this time arrived pretty quickly, in about ten minutes,
and they showed up full like swat team style. I
would say ten police squad cars, police helicopter with a
(02:42):
floodlight on my house. It was like a scene out
of a movie. They surrounded my house. They were prepared
for anything. Okay, So the story takes a weird twist
when there was a possum killed in the backyard with
a statue.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
What was the statue? What's going on there?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
It felt like a very almost juvenile twist to this
crazy story right.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
So you know, I've been getting a lot of comments
and messages from friends who've seen the stories. La Times
picked it up also in addition to NBC. It just
so happens I work for NBC. So when I was
checking in with my boss the next day saying, Hey,
guess what happened to me last night, they were like,
oh my gosh, we want to do a story on this.
But so I got been getting lots of texts from
friends and colleagues, and you know, they're laughing at the situation.
(03:21):
The chewing gum, you mentioned, the ice cream sandwiches, the
veggie burgers, all this stuff. But as I said, it
didn't feel funny or hilarious in the moment. But to
your point, once he's in jail, I get to go
do a walk through with the police, and it's there
we finally discover what this person got into in my house,
what damage he did, what other places of the house
(03:41):
he was in other than what I was able to see,
you know, through the windows. Part of the whole story
and the piece of the puzzle finally start to fit
together and we kind of discover what happened. And he
was spotted by several neighbors walking the street Saturday afternoon
around two three pm, talking to himself, yelling and cursing profanities.
It go that seemingly nobody and nobody did anything. Nobody
(04:03):
called the police, nobody alerted our neighbors through texts or anything.
They just kind of got scared and went in their
homes and locked their doors and hoped that he didn't show.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Up on their doorstep.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
But he showed up on mine, and I wasn't home,
so he made his way to my back patio where
I have like an outdoor couch and an outdoor coffee
table and a Buddhist statue and a bunch of dodgers
garden gnomes and candles and just kind of nice decorative things.
I think he went up there and kind of took
a nap for a little bit and then decided to
smash everything. And there is a possum that shows up
(04:34):
on my cameras in the backyard and crosses my backyard
to my front yard to the street and almost every night.
And the poor possum was coming through again like he
normally does, and this intruder decided he was going to
take my Buddhist statue and kill him.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
And he smashed him. The irony of that.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yeah, and left him up there and just destroyed and ransacked,
smashing everything up top. And my guess can only be
either just you know, some delusional ang rage or maybe
he was looking for a high to key or something
to get into the house. He then decides to come
back down through the back and break in. Uh, like
I said, through that back door to the kitchen, and
once he goes in, it's like Goldilocks and the Three
(05:12):
Bears at this point, right.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Well, man, thank you for taking the time to join us.
We'll continue to hope for your absolute safety and hope
you don't get any more encounters like this.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Yeah, I appreciate it. I'm beefing up security here.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Thank you for your time. There, he goes Michael Doorte,
the guy whose house got broken into, and pretty scary stuff.
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