His Girlfriend’s Been Keeping A Secret: She’s Penpals With A Convicted Murderer, And The Letters Are Weirdly Affectionate
A bit more than a year ago, this 29-year-old guy started dating his 28-year-old girlfriend, J. They have a lot of friends in common, and that’s how they originally met.
Their relationship has grown to be a lot more serious, and they’ve discussed moving in together. They’re currently apartment shopping, as his lease ends in October, and J’s is over in November.
He’s thrilled to begin a new journey with J, and he’s even been eyeing an engagement ring for her, as he’s convinced J is the girl of his dreams.
“She’s smart, beautiful, funny, loved by nearly everyone she meets, and just overall the best person I’ve ever met, let alone dated,” he explained.
Two weeks ago, he was at J’s house for the weekend, and they like to switch: he will go to J’s for one weekend, and she’ll come to his place for the following one.
Unfortunately, he got sick that Sunday, so he called in to work on Monday. J said she could drive him home later and was happy to help care for him.
Since J gets off work at 6 p.m. on Monday evenings, he was alone in her apartment for the entire day.
He ended up making a mess of J’s bathroom, so he phoned her up to see if there were some old towels he could have to mop everything up.
J didn’t pick up his call, as she was super busy, so he took it upon himself to go hunting through a closet to see if he could find ones she didn’t care about.
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As he yanked towels off the shelf, a shoebox came crashing down along with them. He hates poking through J’s things, but he spotted something weird as he was putting everything back, and he grew curious.
“It was an envelope addressed to her, and the return address was a prison in another state,” he said.
“As I looked at the other stuff in the shoebox, I found way more envelopes just like it, as well as some drawings. I’ll admit, in a moment of weakness, I could not help myself. I had to see what was going on.”
Now, he knows absolutely everything there is to know about J: details of her past, everything about her loved ones, how she grew up.
He can tell you the names of every single pet J has ever had in her life. He’s met her family. He’s spent time with her extended family.
J has never said a word about someone she knows being in prison, so that’s why he found the letters suspicious.
From the letters, he could piece together that J was corresponding with this inmate from well before he ever came into J’s life.
He doesn’t know what J wrote in her letters, but from the ones she had in her possession, they were weirdly full of affection.
“Like something long-distance lovers would write to each other,” he added. “I know J has a big interest in true crime and listens to a lot of podcasts, watches a lot of documentaries, all that stuff.”
“Nothing really unusual since it seems like a ton of women are really into true crime these days. But I recognized this guy’s name pretty quickly, and knowing what he did and finding out my GF, who I adore and love so deeply, actually talks to him this way is really [messing] with my head.”
This man’s case was all over the media, and he confessed to murdering his pregnant wife and two children. So, he is literally a convicted murderer.
He read a handful of the letters J received, and they made him feel sick to his stomach, on top of having a stomach bug. It makes him queasy to think about the letters right now; that’s how disturbing they are.
He shoved the letters back into the shoebox, cleaned up J’s bathroom, and drove home before she got back from work. He sent J a text claiming he felt well enough to leave.
“But honestly, I could hardly bear to look at her afterward,” he continued. “Since then, we’ve spent a few days together, but I’ve made up excuses as to why I’ve been too busy to spend much time with her.”
He would like to bring up the letters, but he’s terrified that J will either lie to his face about the secret that she’s keeping from him or she will admit the truth and want him to be fine with her correspondence.
Or, there’s the possibility that J is in love with this creep. He would hate to dump J, as he’s truly in love with her and wants to spend his life by her side. He’s left wondering if he should say something to her or not.
What advice do you have for him?
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