So recently I had some money stolen from me. Normally I wouldn't get as pissed as I am about this, but it was $300 and the only people it could have possibly been were 5 people that I consider my best friends. I don't really want to go into too much detail about the incident because I'm not entirely sure if any of them are Dollars as well and I would like to avoid confronting them as long as possible. I guess my point to posting this thread is to ask you guys for advice on what I should do. I'm open to most ideas, involving the police isn't completely out of the question because if one of them stole my money they're obviously not my friend, but I would like to avoid that until I can know for sure who it was. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

If you know for sure that it is one of them then you should confront them or look for witnesses first. You shouldn't confront them aggressively though, come at them in a more subtle way cause you don;t want to put them off or rub them the wrong way, especially if thy didn't actually take the money.

Personally, I would approach each one individually saying that $300 has been stolen/gone missing. Explain that you're not even angry, just really disappointed someone would do that and ask them what they would do in the situation. Play the guilt card and maybe one of them will crack or give you some information. Good luck.

>>1 okay something like this has happened to me before, I used to be friends with a group of, well, "cool girls" so there was backstabbing and lots of bullshit. Anyways, no need to get into anymore unnecessary details, one of these girls stole a lot from me. She stole my favourite pretty expensive jeans and I loved them a lot. By then I had been fed up, she had stolen smaller things from me before but nothing that I really, really cared for. Anyways, I confronted her about it and she lied to my face. However, I had also talked to another friend of mine who was particularly close to her, and it so happened that the friend who stole from me had told my other friend that she had in fact stolen my jeans. My other friend told me the truth and we ended up getting the jeans back.
If I've learned anything from my experience it's that yes you should confront them, but not just the people you think are guilty but all of your friends individually and hope somebody tells the truth. Also don't be afraid to get the police involved or even threaten to get them involved. $300 is a lot of money so it's a pretty serious deal. Just remember to be 100% certain that the money was stolen and you didn't just accidentally misplace it.

Because they're all my best friends I wouldn't just assume that it was stolen. I always made sure it was in the same place no matter what. My problem is that the only other person who knew where it was wasn't near it by himself and was within my view most of the night. Point is nobody was anywhere near it by themselves. I've started to talk to them about it but it hasn't gotten me anywhere. One of them offered to help me out financially till I get everything worked out, others pointed the blame at others, and the other two said they didn't know anything about it.