FOLEY, Ala. — Foley resident Freddie McCants is waiting to hear whether the Baldwin County Sheriff's Office can make anything out of the two sets of fingerprints he said were lifted from his travel trailer last week as part of an investigation into a break-in that involved racial epithets.

McCants learned on Oct. 1 that his trailer in the Little River community in north Baldwin had been broken into. McCants said this week the perpetrators stole his bath towels, DVD movies, bed linens and a color TV among other things. But it was what the burglars left behind that disturbs McCants, namely, the letters "KKK" scrawled across his cabinets and a picture of a head with a rope around the neck. Certain racial slang words were written inside the trailer as well, he said.

McCants said his father had left him and his brothers 30 acres of land in the Little River community. He bought the travel trailer and placed it on Sawmill Road in Little River as a kind of "home away from home," McCants said, a place to take four-wheelers and his children to get away.

Now, however, McCants said he won't be setting the trailer up permanently in Little River the way it was before the burglary.

"We'll take it back up there, but it'll be up and back," he said this week. "That scared me too bad," he said of the break-in and racial overtones of the crime.

"In my heart I know no KKK did this. They don't want no TV or movies or anything like that," said McCants, noting blacks and whites in Little River get along well.

For that reason, McCants doesn't believe this is a hate crime. "They would have burned it down," he said of the trailer had it been a hate crime.

McCants said he has his trailer back together for the most part, so much so that it's hard to tell it was ever damaged.

Whoever damaged the trailer also took the key to a shed on the property where McCants had a washer and dryer. He had to remove the washer and dryer because, in his opinion, the perpetrators were just waiting to come back and take those as well.

Maj. Anthony Lowery with BCSO said this week that investigators are continuing to work the case as a burglary.