Nude home intruder arrested in Jefferson Co.

It's a crime a couple of Jefferson County women literally wish they'd never seen. A burglar broke into each of their Golden homes early Monday morning wearing next to nothing.

And it's not the first time Clinton March, 24, has allegedly done this. He's got a history of public indecency dating back to 2006.


Now, Ruth (who didn't want us to use her last name) is part of that history.

It all started at her home in the 700 block of Isabell St. Near W. 6th Ave. and Indiana St. Not far from the Colorado Mills Mall. Ruth and her husband went out to investigate an open gate to their backyard, when she saw her storage closet open.

Inside, she found March asleep, bent over a small table, his butt bare, using a bag of soil as a pillow.

"He found a sheet in this room that was tucked between his legs. And he was bent over. All I saw was a rear end," says Ruth.

She said she couldn't tell whether it was a woman or a man. But she called 911. That's when he ran off into the neighborhood, with just her sheet.

March then allegedly broke into a second home adjacent to Ruth's.

Delores (who also doesn't want us to use her last name) found him bent over her bathtub, naked, wearing just her knee-high stockings.

At first, Delores thought it was her grandson, Josh, who had had too much to drink. "I told him to get up. I said 'Josh. Get up. He did," she says.

But she didn't look at his face. It was his body that gave him away.

"When he walked past the bookcase. I thought 'That's not Josh. He's bigger, stockier," she says. Then he went out the back door. "I realized he wasn't Josh," she says with a smile. And police were waiting for him.

This time he covered up in Delores' underwear, nightgown, knee-highs and a scarf.

"All the clothes he was wearing were mine."

But the damage was already done.

"He has no right going to people's property and violating them," says Ruth. She says even though he was naked, he's stripped them of their security.

"He has no right to make us feel unsafe. We're unsafe," says Ruth.

Delores says she feels lucky it all turned out like it did. She wasn't scared because she didn't realize he was an intruder until he left. Now, she says she realizes he could have killed her.

New Castle police say they arrested March just before noon on March 14, after employees at a motel reported him swimming nude in the pool there. He was not even a registered guest.