Three days after the guard’s arrest, the widow died. And now prosecutors are dropping the charge.

Francoise Hoffman’s family is sad.

“People can pretty much steal from anyone who’s dying, and when they die, they technically can’t sue them,” his daughter, Stephanie Wilder, said Friday. “I don’t think this is right. “You’re still playing.”

Allishia Robinson of Jennings was accused of stealing more than $150,000 in valuables in early October as an in-home caregiver at three patients’ homes this year. Police said the woman stole jewelry from a Creve Coeur home. They also say he stole jewelry, silverware and other items from another Creve Coeur home.

And they say that I emptied a wardrobe This was home to Hoffman’s collection of Samurai swords, Nazi daggers and other weapons.

The collection, estimated to be worth about $13,000, belonged to Hoffman’s late husband, an avid collector of military weapons and memorabilia. Prosecutors said Robinson stole the items when she came to Hoffman’s Crestwood home for the first and only time as a Visiting Angels in-home caregiver to care for Hoffman and put him to bed.

The guns were pawned at Alamo Military Collectables for $3,000 and could not be recovered, police said. All of the guns were sold at a gun show in Tulsa, Oklahoma, shortly after Alamo purchased the weapons, Wilder said.

Hoffman, 93, died Oct. 5, Wilder said. The memorial service was on Friday.

Wilder said he received a call from a detective earlier this week informing him that the charge against Robinson would be dropped.

St. Chris King, a spokesman for the St. Louis County district attorney’s office, said attorneys could not prosecute the Crestwood case because they needed Hoffman to testify.

“We need the victim to testify to two things,” King said. “First, it was her property, and second, she did not consent to the defendant taking her from the house.”

King said this statement was necessary because of the 6th Amendment Constitutional right of confrontation. The article states that defendants have the right to confront “witnesses against them”, especially for cross-examination purposes.

Wilder said he had power of attorney for his mother at the time of the theft, but King said that was not legally sufficient.

The guard’s second trial is expected to continue.

In the first charge in this case, police say she stole more than $90,000 worth of jewelry from a Creve Coeur home. The victim, who asked to remain anonymous, told the Post-Dispatch that Robinson came to her home as an Amada Senior Care employee to care for her husband between 10 p.m. and 10 p.m. a month.

In the second charge, police said Robinson stole from an 88-year-old woman. The items, which included jewelry and silverware, were valued at more than $52,000.

Prosecutors say the three burglaries occurred between April 16 and August 27.

Robinson was held on $250,000 bail. A judge last week refused to reduce his bond, according to online court records.

There is no defense attorney on the list.

A preliminary hearing of the cases will be held on Monday.