This is bizarre, too bizarre not to make note of here. It is also a little squicky, so I’m going to put a jump here and the main body of this post after the jump. Also, trigger warning.
Apparently, there’s this thing on Craigslist where men put up posts seeking women to act out fantasies of being raped, and women supposedly respond.
I say “supposedly” because, obviously, this has “bad idea” written all over it. But it is a thing.
Except that Ms. Diaz said she didn’t post these ads, but she had men showing up at her home wanting to act out rape fantasies.
Ms. Diaz blamed another woman, “her husband’s ex-girlfriend, Michelle Hadley” for the postings. Police investigated, arrested Ms. Hadley, and charged her “with multiple felonies, including stalking, criminal threats and attempted forcible rape, facing a life sentence in prison if convicted.” This was a apparently a national story back in July (though I don’t remember it) and would be weird enough if it stopped here.
But of course it doesn’t.
…authorities discovered the allegations against Hadley were all false. Diaz had made them up in an effort to frame Hadley, they alleged. Hadley was an “innocent victim of a diabolical scheme” meticulously planned and executed by her ex-fiancée’s new wife, Diaz, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said Monday.
Prosecutors exonerated Hadley of all charges, and instead charged Diaz with kidnapping, false imprisonment, perjury and other crimes.
Ms. Hadley supposedly sent threatening emails to Ms. Diaz, and those emails had some unique characteristics that led prosecutors to suspect Ms. Hadley.
It’s the “…and forging a check” on top of everything else that I love.