shortly before the break-in occurred, there was a young man who lived a couple blocks away. jenkins: it's 2:00 in the morning. a young teenager named james romero spots a suspicious man outside his family's house. yochelson: it was the middle of the night. he was working on his motorcycle in the garage and saw somebody come out of the backyard, through the lawn, go down the street. he sees the man jump into an orange toyota station wagon, and he is able to get a partial license plate number. yochelson: he didn't get a good look at the person, but got a description of the car and told his father about it, and they called the police. and for investigators, this was the break that they had been hoping for. the description of the vehicle and a partial license plate that ultimately leads to the recovery of that orange toyota station wagon and the identification of the night stalker.