Anyone seen a Trek Madone 5.2? It’s a mid-range racing bicycle meant to hit the pavement for the Tour de France with space-age technology. That’s the way Eric Abbott, 47, described his bicycle that was stolen from his South Hill home in late July. In between racing near Riverside State Park and packing up his family’s home for a move across the state, it was plucked away from the garage.

“I walked into the garage, turned around - something felt strange like the hair was standing up on the back of my neck,” Abbot described. He asked himself, “Where’s my bike?”

It’s a common woe to hear in Spokane following the theft of property. Abbott followed the proper routine of filing a police report, insurance claims, calling major bike shops and starting his online patrol of Craigslist and eBay. He hopes to have it returned, but that possibility looks slim.

Where does evidence go when it leaves the scene of a crime? It’s processed into a property facility in east Spokane where local law enforcement store over 150,000 items of evidence. One hallway is dedicated to boxes of evidence from homicides.

Police evidence supervisor Shannon Hallam says they have exactly 1,000 boxes of evidence for 610 cases, a mixture of active or unsolved cases. Even if a case is closed, they have to keep the boxes 100 years following the closure of a case or until the defendant (if there is one) passes away.

The smaller boxes kept on the higher shelves are dedicated to 30-40 year-old homicides. Hallam says they didn’t take as many evidence items because the technology did not exist to analyze them closely. The oldest box of evidence is tied to a 1959 homicide.

They keep the boxes of evidence just in case new technology comes around that allows them to analyze evidence in new ways. Cold cases will remain at the property facility indefinitely.

Here's last week's top five stories that we posted on our community websites. The stats are based on your interest so our number one story describes a man's journey to share his distaste with local crime. Some people agreed - some people didn't. What did you think?

Also on our top five list, a young Missoula boy has been rediagnosed with cancer. Cash Hyde had media attention last year when he became the youngest cancer patient whose treatment was supplemented by cannabis oil.

Thanks to viewer photos, we got photos of a minivan crashed into a Spokane Valley playground.

Speaking of photos - for those on the South Hill, maybe you woke up to sirens early Sunday morning. We got a photo of fire crews carrying a hiker up the High Drive Bluff. The hiker fell and injured her leg and even though the injuries were minor, it was enough to make it so she couldn't make it back up the bluff, thus the tech rescue.

1. New website says Spokane sucks because of crime statistics

2. Young cancer patient battling tumors return

3. Driver crashes into Spokane Valley playground