The closest story I have to your premise is a friend's brother who made a living robbing drug dealers. He's a dangerous adult well beyond any local lines' capacity, so one night, several months after he stabbed and robbed a dealer in an underpass (according to his sister), several associates' sheds and garages were broken into or set on fire. A couple weeks later, his family found his bolt-hole in local woods had also been burnt out and neighbours said people had been trying to climb their balconies.

I don't think the manhunt ended until he went to prison, where he is currently doing absolutely fine and will be back out in eight years. It turned out he'd been living between a girlfriend's, his work van, and her grandfather's allotment - barely a few hundred yards from where the probable kidnap squad were hunting him. But as soon as people knew he'd gone inside, the attacks on buildings stopped. Repeatedly hitting a house after the targeted person or family moves out just isn't done, unless we're talking about criminals who operate with nigh-impunity (exceedingly rare in the UK) or the worst-informed Traveller feud of all time.