The wife should have a cell phone and a membership to AAA (or the minimal towing insurance), that way the husband would have been aware that the car had broken down.

Second obvious error, the husband is very trusting person, why else would he had not locked the front door to prevent people from breaking into the house.

Preventative car maintenance is worth its weight in gold, as the commercial used to say, “You can pay me now or you can pay me later” You can see how true this statement is in this circumstance.