Here is yet another story about an older guy, who became fast friends with a 17-year-old on Facebook and started chatting her up.
In messages with "Jessica," David predictably asked the girl to run away with him; he also admitted that he had installed a GPS tracking system on his wife's vehicle — both of which are enough for criminal charges in themselves.
The husband then proceeded to tell "Jessica," that he wanted his wife out of the picture — and by "out of the picture," we mean "deceased."
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Here's one of his friendly messages to "Jessica":
"Once she is gone, I don’t have to hide with my kids… I can do what I want and not have to worry about not seeing my family anymore. You should find someone at your school. There should be some gang-bangers there that would put a cap in her ass for $10,000. I am done with her crap!
… See, I am taking care of everything! I will finally be free, my kids can grow up and not be around all the hatred, it will be over. With me gone with my kids, the police can’t pin anything on me as I will be in another state, so I will be fine.
Will you be ready to go with me on the 10th? Let me know, baby!"
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The reason that Jessica is in quotes is because the 17-year-old "Jessica Studebaker" was actually a fake Facebook profile that 38-year-old David Voelkert was corresponding with. "Jessica Studebaker," in reality, was a 29-year-old woman named Angela Voelkert, namely his ex:
According to the Smoking Gun, 29-year-old Angela Voelkert created a fake account for 17-year-old “Jessica Studebaker," complete with a trashily attractive photo, and friended her ex-husband. Then, in an attempt to gain information she could use against him in a custody battle, she chatted him up. He said he put a GPS tracking device on his ex-wife's car, the more easily to monitor her every move. And he told "Jessica" that "you should find someone at your school…that would put a cap in her ass for $10,000." He had plans to "take care of" old Angela, he said. Heavily based on the exchanges, the FBI arrested 38-year-old David Voelkert on Friday.
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Case closed. That's all she wrote. Dude needs to change his Facebook mood to felon.
But wait there's more.
Suspecting it was Angela all along, David Voelkert had gotten a notarized affidavit shortly after Jessica came online. In it, he said that he believed this was not a real person but rather his ex-wife or someone she knows. He said he was engaging with this person and lying in order to gain proof that his ex-wife was tampering with his personal life, proof he would then use himself in court. "In no way do I have plans to leave with my children or do any harm to Angela Dawn Voelkert or anyone else," he wrote above the Indiana notary's stamp. He then kept one copy and gave another to a relative for backup.
The timeline worked, his affidavit coming days before he said anything incriminating. The notary was interviewed, the document authenticated, and his case was dismissed.
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The moral of the story is: whether one is a commenter at Daily Kos or a nude sitting congressman, one never knows who is on the other end of the ether, does one?
So be careful out there!