Women and Facebook

A woman pretended to be a 17-year-old to draw out incriminating evidence from her ex-husband via Facebook. But an investigation after his arrest showed that he was the true online mastermind. Oh, the e-intrigue!

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, but did he ever have a surprise for them.

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. Situations like this are why the phrase "Oh, snap!" was invented.

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Reminds me of a Dr. Dre song....

The answer to your question is 1) network 2) get involved 3) beef up your resume 4) repeat -happypantsmcgee WSO is not your personal search function.
 
blackfinancierReminds me of a Dr. Dre song....

Alright stop, now before you walk in the door of this liquor store you better stop and think of the consequence...who are you? I'm ya muthafckin conscience...man this is Wall Street that's nonsense

People tend to think life is a race with other people. They don't realize that every moment they spend sprinting towards the finish line is a moment they lose permanently, and a moment closer to their death.
 
rickyross
blackfinancierReminds me of a Dr. Dre song....

Alright stop, now before you walk in the door of this liquor store you better stop and think of the consequence...who are you? I'm ya muthafckin conscience...man this is Wall Street that's nonsense

Wow, throwback

Get busy living
 

Jesus, throwback for real. And props to that guy...

"You stop being an asshole when it sucks to be you." -IlliniProgrammer "Your grammar made me wish I'd been aborted." -happypantsmcgee
 

That was a ridiculously stupid risk that guy took. Something could've gone wrong and he would've found himself in a shitload of trouble over a stupid stunt...

Think about it, the guy was actually taken into custody by the FBI before it was proven he was fucking around with her. Is this stunt worth it? He could've screwed her over in a manner that would not have potentially incriminated himself. What an idiot...

 
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alexpaschThat was a ridiculously stupid risk that guy took. Something could've gone wrong and he would've found himself in a shitload of trouble over a stupid stunt...

Think about it, the guy was actually taken into custody by the FBI before it was proven he was fucking around with her. Is this stunt worth it? He could've screwed her over in a manner that would not have potentially incriminated himself. What an idiot...

The guy was not taken into custody by the FBI. He was taken into custody by the local police but the local police did not know that the guy was already working on the case with the FBI.

His gut told him that the "teen girl" who added him on facebook could be his wife. So he decided to play along with her. Before he starts playing his game, he went to the FBI, he told them that he suspected that his ex-wife was behind the fake profile. So he signed an affidavit with the FBI in which he sworn that he does not intend to hurt his ex-wife or go away with his children.

Once he signed the affidavit, he started telling the "fake" friend that he was going to go away with his children and put a put a bounty on his ex-wife. The FBI knew all along that he was playing game with the fake facebook friend.

Once he messaged the wife aka fake fb friend about his plan to "kill her" and go away with the children, she went to the local police and got him arrested. That's when the FBI came on board and revealed that the guy told them about his plan to deceive the ex-wife aka fake facebook friend from the beginning.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.
 

Oh come on, Alex. That's the kind of shit that will give you an adrenaline rush for years to come!

More is good, all is better
 
Heavily based on the exchanges, the FBI arrested 38-year-old David Voelkert on Friday, but did he ever have a surprise for them.
the affidavit was with a notary, not FBI FBI arrested him But hey, great creative interpretation!
More is good, all is better
 
Argonaut
Heavily based on the exchanges, the FBI arrested 38-year-old David Voelkert on Friday, but did he ever have a surprise for them.
the affidavit was with a notary, not FBI FBI arrested him But hey, great creative interpretation!

Whatever, he got what he wanted anyway.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.
 

U MAD?

People tend to think life is a race with other people. They don't realize that every moment they spend sprinting towards the finish line is a moment they lose permanently, and a moment closer to their death.
 
rickyrossU MAD?

What is it to be mad about ?

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.
 

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