These days, it seems like everybody and their mother have a story about online dating gone wrong. Usually, though, these bad dates extend to bad conversation and other awkward moments and leave it at that. A recent incident in Arizona went far beyond that, according to the Washington Post, as it involved thousands of texts ranging from the bizarre to the threatening and stalking.
Authorities in Arizona arrested 31-year-old Jacqueline Claire Ades on May 8. Between that time and last summer, she had sent 65,000 messages to a man she claimed she had met on Luxy, a dating site for verified millionaires. The message content was often threatening and occasionally anti-Semitic. On a few occasions, she sent him more than 500 messages in a single day.
When asked the number of messages in a jailhouse interview on Thursday, Ades said, “That’s it? To me it seemed like more.”
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Ades told a reporter during her interview that she was originally from Miami, and that she had driven to Arizona “looking I guess for love.” The man she met up with – who is unidentified in local media and police reports – allegedly met Ades on the dating site and they went on one date. After that encounter last summer, the messages started to pour in, according to police.
On April 8, the man called the police while he was out of the country. Security footage for his home in Paradise Valley, which is just outside Phoenix, showed that Ades was in his home. She was taking a bath. Police shortly reported to his home and found Ades there. The arrest report also says that the police found a butcher knife on the passenger seat of her car.
Ades denies the existence of the butcher knife, saying she only had “little flippy knives on my road trip” because she was a single woman traveling alone.
She was charged with first-degree criminal trespass and released after this encounter.
The police received another call from the man on April 30. He showed investigators threatening text messages Ades had sent between April 26 and April 28. She said in the messages that she didn’t “wanna be a murderer” but that she would kill him if he left her. According to the report, she also used incredibly anti-Semitic language in some of her threats. The messages, understandably, unnerved the man and though he was out of the country at the time he told police “he is legitimately concerned for his safety when he returns,” said the police report.
Then Ades showed up at the man’s office in Scottsdale on May 4, stating that she was his wife. Police arrested her in her home four days later on charges of threatening, stalking, harassment and failure to appear. She is currently being held without bail and has no attorney yet. Her next court appearance will be Tuesday.
In her rambling interview that covered a broad range of unrelated topics, Ades told reporters she didn’t think she was a threat or a danger to the man or anyone else. She didn’t want to talk about what she had done, stating that she loved him.
When asked if she thought what she had done was, putting it mildly, a bit much, she said she didn’t.
“Love is an excessive thing,” Ades said.