Someone is picking apart cars from a Crossville dealership and leaving police asking for the public’s help.

It sounds like a line out of a Johnny Cash song, but police are looking for one or more people who are taking car parts from a local dealership one piece at a time.

The first time the East Tennessee Dodge dealership noticed it, the driver side doors of a black 2007 Dodge Charger were missing. That happened sometime between April 9th and 10th. The second time it happened was sometime between April 11th and 12th, this time it was a black 2015 Dodge Charger missing its doors.

“I believe they’re shopping for parts. They may have a shop where they’re working on a 2007, or it could be that they got the wrong doors the first time and they come back to get them right the second time,” Crossville Police Detective Danny Harris said.

But the suspected thief or thieves didn’t stop there. They came back to the 2007 Charger once more, this time to take more than the doors. The car is now missing its hood, headlights, front bumper and fenders. And to make matters worse, police say whoever did this is very good at it and didn’t leave a fingerprint anywhere.

“They were most likely wearing gloves,” Harris said.

But the question is, how was the person able to take just the doors off of a car? Detective Harris said the dealership will typically leave car doors unlocked in the car lot so customers can look at cars after hours if they want, and the dealership doesn’t have any security cameras. A manager at East Tennessee Dodge said they are now investing in security cameras because of these incidents.

Despite the suspected thief being smart enough to not leave a fingerprint, they did leave a key piece of evidence for police. The 2007 Charger has a shoe print on the step of the car from the suspected thief. Harris said that shoe print may be a key piece of evidence in identifying the suspect.

“Crimes are solved with shoe prints. We’ve had previous crimes where shoe prints were added as evidence,” Harris said.

Harris is asking anyone who owns a black 2007 or 2015 Dodge Charger to be vigilant if they are currently getting any body work done to their car. He suggests if you are getting work done and suspect that the price of the repair work is too low, or you get a bad feeling about the work being done, to call police and let them know.

“If they feel like something’s shady about it or they got it really, really cheap they may want to contact us and let us know what’ happening,” Harris said.

Detective Danny Harris can be reached at 931-484-7231 or call Crossville Crimestoppers.