Picture this. You leave your home, headed for work one morning, only to return that evening and find your home destroyed. That's what happened to a Panama City woman, after a local construction company mistakenly demolished her mobile home.

The company is admitting the mistake, but refusing to help the woman.

Wednesday afternoon, Angela Pate's mother, Jimmie Alexander, came home to find this bulldozer destroying 36 years of memories.

Angela Pate, Jimmie Alexander's daughter, says, “We grew up playing in this park over here, and she always wanted to live here. This felt like like her home here, and as bad as the neighborhood got, she never wanted to leave."

When her daughter confronted Sike's Construction they immediately admitted the mistake.

"Well the driver of the excavator over there says this isn't the first time this has happened, but they're notorious for going to lots and clearing out lots.

But Pate says the company agreed to halt the job until the next day. They were giving the family a chance to gather their items from this rubble.

But when Pate and her sister returned the next morning, they found an empty lot.

"They had already destroyed it. Everything was taken to a dumpster and their not telling us where they've taken it to," says Pate.

According to Panama City Police, the entire trailer park had been purchased by a new property owner back in June.
The new owner told the police he thought it was abandoned.

"No clothes, no pictures, nothing, none of her personal things."

But Pate says the careless mistake cost her mother a home and the whole family years of pictures and memories.

NewsChannel 7 contacted Sike's Construction several times, but they declined to comment.

Panama City Police are conducting a criminal investigation.