MIDDLETOWN, N.Y. -- Now for a bizarre case of he-said-she-said.
A Hudson Valley man is facing charges of criminal mischief after demolishing his wife's house.
She says she doesn't know why he'd destroy her home with all their possessions inside.
He claims she knew all about it.
Imagine returning to where your home should be, except it's gone.
"I came around the corner. And I just seen my neighbor's house but I didn't see my house," Diane Andryshak said.
That's what happened Monday to Diane Andryshak when her husband, 48-year-old James Rhein, reportedly rented an excavator and leveled their house on Woodland Avenue in Middletown.
The bizarre incident was captured in a photo taken by a neighbor before Rhein was arrested for illegally tearing it down. His wife says she has no idea why.
Andryshak said she hadn’t spoken to her husband since the incident.
When asked him why he'd tear the house down, he said, "The foundation was bad. We had to take it down," Rhein said.
He insists his wife knew all about. She insists she didn’t.
Neighbors we spoke to say he told them Andryshak didn't know about his plans.
"I didn't know what to think. I said, ‘What's Diane going to say’ and he says, ‘I haven't told her.’"
His wife meanwhile appears to be just as confused. She says they were supposed to be doing repairs and were staying elsewhere but that everything they owned was still inside.
A Hudson Valley man is facing charges of criminal mischief after demolishing his wife's house.
She says she doesn't know why he'd destroy her home with all their possessions inside.
He claims she knew all about it.
Imagine returning to where your home should be, except it's gone.
"I came around the corner. And I just seen my neighbor's house but I didn't see my house," Diane Andryshak said.
That's what happened Monday to Diane Andryshak when her husband, 48-year-old James Rhein, reportedly rented an excavator and leveled their house on Woodland Avenue in Middletown.
The bizarre incident was captured in a photo taken by a neighbor before Rhein was arrested for illegally tearing it down. His wife says she has no idea why.
Andryshak said she hadn’t spoken to her husband since the incident.
When asked him why he'd tear the house down, he said, "The foundation was bad. We had to take it down," Rhein said.
He insists his wife knew all about. She insists she didn’t.
Neighbors we spoke to say he told them Andryshak didn't know about his plans.
"I didn't know what to think. I said, ‘What's Diane going to say’ and he says, ‘I haven't told her.’"
His wife meanwhile appears to be just as confused. She says they were supposed to be doing repairs and were staying elsewhere but that everything they owned was still inside.