She Wanted a New Life. So Her Husband Had to Die. - The Melinda Raisch Story
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Who is Melinda Raisch and what is her background?
So just because someone is religious doesn't automatically mean that they're a good person. Now of course, you already knew that, but the woman I'm talking about specifically is this woman, Melinda. And Melinda is 23 when this story starts and she's living in Kansas. And Melinda works as a secretary at a local Christian university. And she's obviously very religious. But one day in 1981, she meets this guy, Mangelsdorf. And Mangelsdorf is the student body president. And so he and Melinda, they start talking and they hit it off. And over time, they become close friends. And eventually, Melinda starts thinking Mangelsdorf, he's kind of fine. And Mangelsdorf thinks Melinda is kind of fine. And so they start smashing.
Here's the problem with all that though. Melinda is actually married. She's married to this guy, David. David, he's a nice man. He works at a local bank. And to complicate things even more, David is also friends with Mangelsdorf. They apparently play racquetball together quite often. But neither Mangelsdorf nor Melinda seem to care about all that. So they continue their secret affair together, and they keep spending more and more time together. And over the course of their affair, students and faculty around campus start noticing, and they start gossiping about it. Even members of their church community notice, and they try to intervene. Like they warn Melinda that she shouldn't be this close to Mangelsdorf, especially since she's married.
But, of course, she doesn't listen to them. In fact, her feelings for Mangelsdorf have grown even stronger over time. Like now, Melinda feels like she wants to spend even more time with him. Like she's tired of sneaking around. She's tired of constantly making sure that no one catches them alone. And most importantly, she's tired of her husband, David, as she slowly starts falling out of love with him. All she wants is Mangelsdorf. Now at this point, Melinda could do the right thing and, you know, file for divorce or whatever. But remember, she's super religious. And divorce is strictly forbidden in her church. I mean, what would people say if she got a divorce? It would bring shame to her whole family.
So after a while, Melinda comes to a terrible conclusion. That the only way she can ever be with Mangelsdorf is if David... And the only way David is going to die is if she makes it happen. So she goes and she talks to Mangelsdorf about it, and together they come up with a plan. Now their plan is to have him sneak into Melinda and David's apartment at night, and then he'll murder David with a crowbar and make it look like a robbery gone wrong. So some time passes and we're now in 1982. And the time has finally come for Melinda and Mangelsdorf to enact their plan. So that night, a little after midnight, David and Melinda are home and David is asleep. And Melinda quietly gets up and she opens the door to let Mangelsdorf into the apartment.
And Mangelsdorf has got his crowbar and he slowly walks into the bedroom where David is.
What led Melinda to start an affair with Mark Mangelsdorf?
And he goes up to him, and suddenly, POW! POW! He hits David over and over again, and unfortunately, David doesn't survive this. Now, to sell their bullshit robbery-gone-wrong story, they need Melinda to look like a victim too. So Mangelsdorf takes the crowbar, and POW! He hits her in the face with it. So now she has a bruise on her face, and she can say that the robber attacked her too. Then, Mangelsdorf leaves. About an hour later, Melinda runs to her neighbor's apartment, screaming for help, pretending to be all panicked. And she tells them that they've been robbed and to call 911. And so soon, the police arrive. And they question Melinda, and she lies to them and tells them this whole elaborate nonsense story that she and Mangelsdorf came up with, that she woke up in the middle of the night, and two mysterious black men were inside her apartment, and they were attacking David.
And that they were demanding that he give them the keys to his workplace, the local bank. And that then one of the robbers started beating David so badly that the other robber even warned him that he might have gone too far.
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