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CALGARY- A Calgary woman who opened her home up to supposed flood victims is now at the centre of a criminal investigation—after her home was robbed.

Kara Hickman says she rented a room in her home out to a couple who said they had been displaced by flooding in Turner Valley. They paid her $500 for the month last Thursday, when Hickman was heading out to go camping for the weekend.

When she returned home on Monday, the couple was gone—along with Hickman’s truck, laptop, cheque book and sentimental jewelry.

“Everything else can be replaced, but it’s family things like heirlooms that can’t be replaced,” she says. “That’s when it sucks.

“I feel pretty violated.”

Police are now investigating, and are working to recover some of the belongings which have since been posted on Kijiji.

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A woman named Renee Lemire is considered a suspect—the same woman convicted of beating and robbing an 92-year-old woman at South Centre in 2009. She has been in and out of jail for more than a decade, and was recently charged with a string of fraud-related offences.

As Hickman sorts through the mess that was left behind, she’s doubting her faith in humanity.

“Really, in today’s world, as much as you want to help people, it’s almost better not to…because things like this happen.”