'We see your pretty wife': Gilbert woman accused of sending threatening letters to couple

A Gilbert pistillate was arrested connected felony stalking charges aft authorities said she sent threatening letters to a mates containing intimate details astir their location and location life.

Court documents accidental a antheral and pistillate contacted Gilbert constabulary connected March 10 astir a threatening missive they received informing them to permission the location oregon look sedate consequences.

“We spot your beauteous woman coming and going from the location and we spot there’s going to beryllium a babe present soon,” portion of the missive said, according to tribunal documents. “That babe volition beryllium ours soon. Every clip the bid passes down you won’t beryllium capable to perceive america arrive. If your babe cries astatine nighttime you won’t beryllium capable to perceive it implicit the bid tracks. Every creak and shuttle successful the location should beryllium a informing of what is to come.”

Documents said the mates told constabulary they had nary thought who sent them the letter, which was typed successful achromatic ink, and couldn’t deliberation of anyone who would person wished them harm. The antheral confirmed to constabulary that his woman was expecting and was scheduled to person labour induced for an aboriginal transportation aboriginal that week.

The mates contacted constabulary again connected March 18 to study they received different missive with much threatening messages and the connection “Redrum” — the backward spelling of “Murder” that was popularized successful the Stephen King caller and its movie adaptation "The Shining" — repeated implicit 20 times.

The mates told investigators that they had been astatine a infirmary since March 13 for their baby’s transportation and had returned location that time erstwhile they saw the 2nd missive containing a connection insinuating idiosyncratic had visited their location portion they were gone.

Court documents said some letters were sent from a U.S. Post Office wrong 2 miles of the couple’s home.

Documents accidental a Gilbert detective worked a parallel probe with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service which recovered the stamps utilized for some letters were from a rotation of stamps purchased by a pistillate astatine a adjacent station bureau that matched the ZIP codification from wherever some letters were sent.

When the mates were shown surveillance footage of the pistillate purchasing the stamps, the pistillate unfortunate identified her arsenic 33-year-old Shelby Trischler — a pistillate she was champion friends with for implicit a decennary and was romantically progressive with during the archetypal twelvemonth of friendship, documents say. Trischler lived 4 miles distant from the couple.

The pistillate told authorities she chopped ties with Trischler and blocked her fig connected Feb. 18 aft the 2 had an “unusual and uncomfortable” speech astir the couple’s recently purchased location being nether lone her boyfriend’s sanction contempt the pistillate not telling Trischler her caller address.

The pistillate said Trischler told her astatine the clip that the accusation was publically disposable connected the internet.

Documents accidental the pistillate hadn’t communicated with Trischler until March 18 — the time the mates returned location and recovered the 2nd missive — erstwhile the pistillate texted Trischler a representation of her caller baby.

Documents accidental the pistillate told constabulary Trischler texted backmost instantly to congratulate the pistillate earlier asking wherefore she opted for a C-section delivery. The pistillate told constabulary she was shocked Trischler knew she had a C-section, arsenic she hadn’t shared that accusation online oregon with anyone other who would person spoken with her.

When the pistillate asked Trischler however she knew she had a C-section, Trischler said her parent told her. The pistillate told constabulary she hadn’t spoken with Trischler’s mother, documents said.

Documents accidental constabulary arrested Trischler aft a Mesa constabulary transgression laboratory matched a fingerprint connected 1 of the letters to her.

Documents accidental officers arrested Trischler and booked her connected aggregate felony and misdemeanor charges including 5 counts each of stalking, disorderly behaviour and making threats.

Trischler is being held connected a $50,000 secured-appearance enslaved and would beryllium required to person physics monitoring installed earlier being released. Her adjacent scheduled tribunal quality is connected March 27 successful Maricopa County Superior Court.

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