Rotten Mango
#409: I Received A Message From A Serial Killer’s Wife Asking For Help…
Wed, 1 Jan 2025
I received an email from the ex-wife of a serial killer. The subject reads: “ I was married to a serial killer for 7.5 years and I need help!!” Her ex husband was sentenced to death for the murder of 3 women. When authorities searched his house they found a soundproof torture chamber. Whips, iron chains, and many many files. Video files of him torturing his victims - plucking out their nails one by one. Now, his ex wife has come forward to ask for help. She was not only one of the first people he tried to kill but now her son (that she shares with him) has been taken. The serial killer’s mother has taken her son and now she’s on the hunt to get him back. This is her GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-reunite-a-mother-with-her-son-after-35-yearFull Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com
Chapter 1: What message did the serial killer's wife send?
Ramble. Bada bing, bada boo.
Three months ago, a very interesting question pops up on the subreddit, relationship advice. It's where people go to ask strangers on the internet for advice for their relationship. It's a 29 year old man and he writes, I don't really have anyone else to talk to about this. This is the final option. I made a Reddit account.
I was browsing through Reddit to see if anybody else had any sort of relationship trouble that was similar to mine, but I can't find anything. So I've hit rock bottom and I'm gonna write this post. I have been in a very serious relationship with my 28-year-old girlfriend for a little over a year. I'm going to refer to her as Jay.
We have a lot of mutual friends, so I can't even ask a friend about this. Not that I think that they can even help me regardless. I feel like they'll just see her differently and treat her differently. Anyway, my girlfriend and I have been looking into moving in together. Things have been getting really serious and we talked about how to even split the finances and all that good adult stuff.
Chapter 2: What relationship advice was shared on Reddit?
I've been really excited about this new chapter with my girlfriend. I even started casually looking at rings a couple of months ago because honestly, I feel like she's the one for me. She's smart, beautiful, funny, loved by nearly everyone that she meets and just overall the best person that I've ever met. Now onto the issue. About two weeks ago, I started spending the weekend at her place.
We usually alternate weekends at one another's apartment. And I ended up catching some stomach bug on Sunday. So I took a sick day off work on Monday. And Jay, my girlfriend, offered for me to stay at her apartment since I didn't feel good enough to drive home. And she was really sweet about it. She offered to make me soup when she got off work. I mean, she works 10 to 6.
So I was mostly alone during the day, mostly sleeping and spending time in the bathroom throwing up. OP, the poster, ends up throwing up in her bathroom floor. He doesn't make it to the toilet. There's vomit everywhere. And he's looking for a way to clean this up, trying to find her linen closet. He finds some rags that look like you would use them to clean.
Down the very top shelf, he's feeling weak. He's feeling frustrated. He doesn't have a ladder. He doesn't know where anything is. So he just kind of jumps and yanks them down. And a bunch of other stuff come falling down too, including this very small shoebox.
He says, I mean, I really don't like going through her things when she's not around because we really value and respect each other's privacy. I completely trust her. But as I was cleaning up everything that fell out of the shoebox, I happened to notice something really odd and I just couldn't help but be a little nosy.
It was an envelope addressed to her and the return address was a prison in another state. As I looked at the other stuff in the shoebox, I found way more envelopes just like it, as well as some drawings. I mean, I will admit, in a moment of weakness, I could not help myself. I had to see what was going on.
This is where I feel the need to explain that I found it so odd because my girlfriend has told me everything about her past, her family, her childhood. I can name every single pet that she's ever had. I've met her parents, both of her siblings, and quite a few of our other family members, and not once, I mean, at least twice, Anyone that she knows?
Not once did she tell me she knows anyone in prison or that she's communicating with anyone in prison. So as it turns out, these letters dated way back before we even started dating. And the most recent one was from three months ago.
Obviously, I didn't see the one she sent because they're in the prison, but the ones she received are all very affectionate, for lack of a better term, like something long distance lovers would write to each other. I know Jay has an interest in true crime. She watches the documentaries, listens to the podcast and nothing too unusual, though. But I recognize the guy's name pretty quickly.
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