Nothing would work, it was really boogered.   I'm not sure how much of that adventure was just a memory leak.

Sending half the town to the criminal career didn't help either - big backup of townies trying to get into crime central.

User beware, the mailbox button is unpredictable.  Never pushed it for paper boy.  Paper boy just showed up and dropped a paper at 2:30 am.  Not to worry, can't save anyway (get error 13 - tricks don't correct it)

Update: Total meltdown.  Townies appeared for no reason in the middle of the night (rang the door belll).  Thumped another burglar, but instead of running off, he went over and grap a book and started reading.  Could not get another fight to work.  Looked like other townies were moving around at night when normally they aren't (walking by at 2 am).   Played for about 30 minutes then flushed it -  I couldn't save anyway.

Wow, that's a new one, need to write that down.  Wonder if you can do something similar but electrocution  hehe

Townie was a "super villian" - not sure why she acted as a burglar?

Well, I got half the town on the criminal path (she is probably one of the first to get to that level), if super villian turns something on, I'm gonna get flooded with crooks.

Yeah I can ask her to leave - just waiting to see if she ever leaves - stayed there even when I went to work.  She just stays and brushs her teeth and reads my books and uses the toliet, but will not use the bed - keeps passing out.  She is not selectable like normal move-ins.  Gets scared and runs when the burglar appears, but then goes back to wandering around in my house.   I guess I could start a fight, but I try to leave that for the burglars  

Yup its confirmed - a townie burglar.  I'm peeking in the window next door.  She is dressed in gray with gloves and a mask.
Looks like she cleaned it out.  Gonna get my sim over there for another fight!!!!!  yeehaaa!

Twooftmama - you might be on to something.

After pushing the mailbox button several times, I once got the standard burglar NPC, but then at the same time a Townie showed up, dressed differently, but with gloves.  The alarm went off before the townie made it into the house (the NPC was ahead of her)- I watched her run to the next house, which she then robbed (or at least it looked that way - I got interested in the NPC fight, so I lost track of what happened next door).

Pushin' the mailbox button so many times might not be good.  I have a mailperson that seems to have moved in without asking.

Grim Reaper didn't show for me, did get the thunder clap but no Grim.  I haven't tried any of the new (since two weeks ago) AWM features, I think there is a NPC reset?

BTW for those that want to know.....cheats need to be enabled, then select mailbox, shift-click

I learned from someone about the mailbox cheat for spawning NPCs.  Seems like there are only two Burglars (one he/ one she).  If one is in jail, he/she doesn't come back when the cheat is used.  

Anyway, the dude seems like an easy fight (put him down before the cop got to help - yeah I got an alarm deep in the house - the backup plan  ).  Tried the cheat again.....the girl gave my sim and the cop the smack down twice!!!!!!

Oh well, it was fun while it lasted, too bad the burglar spawning isn't random.....gettin' slapped silly by a supermodel would be interesting

I sent half the town into the "crime" career, but I got no new buglars.  

Any chance of adding "burglar spawing" to AWM? 

I've seen other mods to remove them, but not make them.

Tryin' to see if my sim can win a fight.

New Theory:

Problem occurs because awsomemod does not allow the game to randomly remove NPCs.

What if problem was seen duing beta testing and the fix was to keep a fixed data size - to do that it flushed NPCs that are not active in the game.

Just an idea since this doesn't seem to be going anywhere good.