It keeps getting worse.
Search warrants are revealing new information surrounding the break-in at the home of retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, just a month after he and his wife and two children were killed in a tragic plane crash in North Carolina.
According to a police report from the Iredell County Sheriff’s Department, the burglary at Biffle’s Mooresville, North Carolina home was reported by Cathy Grossu, who was Biffle’s mother-in-law and the mother of his wife Cristina Grossu.
The report says there were signs of forced entry, and that $30,000 in cash and a backpack were taken from the home. And according to WBTV, guns and NASCAR memorabilia were also reportedly being investigated as missing from the home, with the sheriff’s office reporting that they were working with race teams in the area to attempt to locate missing property and determine whether or not it was stolen.
Detectives said at the time that they believed the burglar was someone with knowledge of the layout of the home, including where the security cameras and safe were located. They released surveillance video showing the individual, who appears to be a woman, moving throughout the home:
But earlier this week we learned that the thieves apparently attempted to drain his bank accounts and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in the process.
According to search warrants obtained by WBTV, authorities noticed suspicious activity on Biffle’s account after his death, including the changing of email addresses, phone numbers, and passwords, as well as fraudulent activity on his wife’s Venmo account. His bank account information was allegedly changed over the phone, and at least one check was cashed from a bank account for Biffle’s businesses.
There were also apparently multiple additional attempts to get into the bank accounts in person at bank branches “across state lines,” and police say that at least some of the attempts to access their accounts came before the break-in.
The search warrants describe the persons of interest as part of Biffle and Grossu’s “inner circle,” and while their names haven’t been officially reported, there’s plenty of online chatter about the individuals who are the subject of the investigation.
And it also revealed a disgusting email that was sent to Biffle the day after his death:
“I heard you dead, rest in hell.”
Last week, authorities executed search warrants on a home in Denver, North Carolina, as well a business in Mooresville. None of the stolen property was recovered, but detectives said that they seized several items, including electronic devices, from the home.
They were reportedly able to zero in on the home based on the license plate of a pickup truck used in the burglary, and also allege that a woman at the home abruptly left town and skipped a previously-planned wedding when the surveillance video was released.
No charges have been announced at this time, though authorities are clearly zeroing in on a suspect (or suspects) who were friends with Biffle. I mean, it doesn’t get much lower than stealing from a grieving family. And for it to be someone Biffle knew and trusted so much just makes it all that more disgusting.
