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Zorro

(15,749 posts)
Wed Sep 10, 2014, 09:24 AM Sep 2014

San Diego Homebuyers Get An Unwelcome Feeling

Jerald Rice typed his wife's name into an Internet search engine. A series of unsettling stunts had perplexed him.

Advertisements for sex with his wife popped up. "Adult entertainment of all types when my husband is not home," the ads said. "Not for the faint of heart. Come see me during the day while my husband is at work and we can get our freak on."

Some ads contained the couple's address and a photograph of the home they shared with their two children. Some had his wife's photograph, he said.

Alarmed, he called his wife at work and then spoke to an FBI agent. He installed security equipment and pleaded with the online sites to remove the ads.

http://www.latimes.com/local/great-reads/la-me-c1-dream-house-20140908-story.html

Pretty nasty prank.

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San Diego Homebuyers Get An Unwelcome Feeling (Original Post) Zorro Sep 2014 OP
Not a prank, criminal harassment by a psycho. nt geek tragedy Sep 2014 #1
Ugh. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Sep 2014 #2
What a horror story! MineralMan Sep 2014 #3
Definitely a sociopath. mnhtnbb Sep 2014 #6
The article ends with this: ljm2002 Sep 2014 #4
Wow. Her defense is sleep deprivation. IdaBriggs Sep 2014 #5
Wow... TheVisitor Sep 2014 #7

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
2. Ugh.
Wed Sep 10, 2014, 09:42 AM
Sep 2014

Sick and wrong. I'm always amazed at criminals who don't realize that they will be the most likely suspect from the start, and still go on to commit the crimes they do.

MineralMan

(146,331 posts)
3. What a horror story!
Wed Sep 10, 2014, 10:43 AM
Sep 2014

The woman who did this is a sociopath, who believes that her wants and needs are more important than anything else on the planet. Reading the full article is recommended.

ljm2002

(10,751 posts)
4. The article ends with this:
Wed Sep 10, 2014, 10:56 AM
Sep 2014
"The house of her dreams has become her nightmare."


The "her" in that sentence refers to the woman who perpetrated this criminal harassment! I guess the nightmare that the couple lived through doesn't count as much.

Fuck her. I don't care if she feels burdened by her life. Apparently, in her deranged mind, there was only one house in the whole city of San Diego that "meets their needs" -- and that gave her the right to harass these people who bought the house, posting sexual come-ons purportedly from the wife, etc.

What if one of those men had gotten into the house and raped the woman?

Here is what the perp said in court:

Rowe said in court records that she never intended her actions to be "scary." "These things were all stupid pranks, which I can see now would be frustrating to the family if they were aware of them," she said.


That does not sound like someone who is acknowledging the seriousness of what she did. She already paid a financial settlement. Now she is fighting the felony charges. In spite of her home situation I hope she does some jail time. There is simply no excuse for what she did. She could have spent her energy finding the next-best house for her family, but instead decided to be vindictive because she wasn't able to buy "the house of her dreams".
 

IdaBriggs

(10,559 posts)
5. Wow. Her defense is sleep deprivation.
Wed Sep 10, 2014, 10:58 AM
Sep 2014

Works a full time job, takes care of her husband with cancer, and "sleeps" in a chair next to her disabled adult daughter's bed.

Sent "love letters" to the wives of the neighbors from the home owner's wife, stopped their mail, sent thousands of dollars worth of magazine subscriptions, set up sex ads for the wife with the address, and almost got the woman raped - "ignore me when I say no!"

Prison might give her a chance to catch up on the sleep. Either way, she needs help!

TheVisitor

(173 posts)
7. Wow...
Wed Sep 10, 2014, 12:14 PM
Sep 2014

This woman is off her rocker, to say the least. I can't believe she did all of this. One hurtful magazine subscription and she should've come out of her rage and just let it go. Applying for several magazines and holding the family's mail hostage? Wow.

Inviting men over to rape the woman inside? Wow...

Reminds me of those kids these days who "swat" each other. That's insane and definitely crosses the line. Both of these acts could result in sexual crimes or murder. Just unbelievable how inconsiderate and unconcerned she is... I tend to agree with other responses - she seems like a cold, heartless, sociopath.

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