From a killer husband to a killer wife, and some absolutely insane scams you’ll never
believe actually happened, here are 10 times when mail order brides went wrong!
10: The Time Traveler Killer A Russian fiancée named Anna Repkina was
found dead 5500 miles(8851km) away from her home.
Anna was caught inside of a love triangle which ended up leading to her death.
It all started in 2016 when Anna met a man named Will Hargrove on the Internet.
She wasn't exactly a mail order bride, but she was still an Internet ordered bride.
Being a native of Moscow, it was quite a difficult time getting relocated to the United States
from Russia to marry a man that she hardly even knew.
Will was a 26-year-old guy from Oregon who had a weird obsession with Russian things
and Anna just so happened to be a Russian – it was a match made in a very creepy heaven.
It wasn't until Anna accepted to be Will’s wife and moved to the United States that she
met his secret girlfriend.
Will had been seeing a girl named Michelle Chavez even after Anna moved to the US.
This guy thought he could have it all.
He tried to marry the Russian while still dating the local girl.
When Michelle Chavez demanded that Will only be with her, the Russian Internet bride was
found dead the day after Easter with the back of her skull blasted open by a shotgun.
After the incident, investigators found some very strange stuff in Will’s web history.
According to Detective Chris Dale, Will was searching how to time travel.
This guy was literally Googling how to go back in time to stop something from happening.
He even took screenshots of web pages on how to cast spells to travel back in time.
There were even WhatsApp messages between him and other Internet people, with Will begging
them for information on time travel.
He offered one stranger his soul if they could help him travel back in time to change the
past.
Obviously, Will was in some serious trouble.
He has since been charged with Anna’s murder.
9: Accused of Kidnapping In a bizarre case of reverse kidnapping, a
man from West Chester was recently arrested after it came to light that he had been physically
abusing his wife.
The guy was 24 year old Lirim Rufati, who wed his wife through an arranged mail-order
marriage.
He brought her to America, she moved in with him, and then he imprisoned her inside of
his house for a full year, abusing her on a daily basis, before doing a reverse kidnapping!
He, along with his father, forced the poor woman to the JFK Airport in New York and tried
to put her on a plane back to Macedonia to get rid of her.
It didn't work out very well for the abusive husband.
His wife told the Port Authority police in customs that she did not want to leave the
country.
She then divulged to them what horrors had been done to her.
She was allowed to stay in the country and Lirim Rufati was charged with a whole heap
of criminal charges and transported to Chester County Prison, where he’s going to be staying
for quite a long time.
8: Stuffed in a Crate A man in Texas has been sentenced to 10 years
in prison after trying to have his Ukrainian mail-order bride kidnapped and sent to America
in a crate so that he could kill her!
The Texan’s name is David Sartin, 49 years old and a complete psycho.
He wanted revenge after Elena Barykina ended their online relationship.
David tried to hire an international hitman to carry out his plot.
Unfortunately for him, the hitman was an undercover federal agent.
But let's go back to the beginning.
Their relationship started after David contacted Elena through a dating website and sent her
$50,000.
Imagine being that desperate!
David traveled to Ukraine six times to see his imagined wife.
He thought they would get married and live together in Texas.
David then discovered that Elena had been lying to him.
She was still sleeping with her Russian boyfriend and had no intention of marrying David.
She was literally just stealing his money.
To get revenge, David plotted to have her delivered to his home inside of a crate, where
he then told the federal agent who was posing as a hitman that he would abuse her for a
week before murdering her.
He was understandably angry, but that's no excuse for kidnapping and murdering!
But what else do you expect when you try to meet your wife on a website called Dream Marriage,
promising to hook you up with gorgeous Russian and Ukrainian women?
7: Scammed Out of Thousands A man has been ripped off in what investigators
are calling a sophisticated mail-order bride scam.
Jerry Mentzel, 69 years old, was lonely after his wife of 43 years passed away from cancer.
In his lonely despair, he got on the Internet.
He found a 24 year old bride online and he married her.
The woman he married was a Moroccan national.
He brought the young girl from Morocco to Pittsburgh.
But that’s where everything went wrong.
Before she actually agreed to go through with the marriage ceremony, she told him that he
needed to pay her brother-in-law in London $32,000.
As a quick word of warning, if anyone asks for $32,000 to marry you, it’s a pretty
big red flag.
Alas, Jerry paid the money and they got married.
The marriage lasted for two weeks.
The woman got a green card for the U.S. and then dumped Jerry and he has since been ordered
to pay his wife alimony.
But here's the thing.
This is not a unique case.
According to the FBI, there are at least 6000 complaints from people who find themselves
the victim of a romantic scam every single year.
The FBI also reported that citizens lose over $50 million each year from these kinds of
scams, with the average victim being hoodwinked out of roughly $70,000.
What would you do if the person you thought you were in love with demanded money to marry
you?!
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6: Dumped in the Mountains Gary Swierski strangled his wife Reina Swierski
to death in the upstairs bathtub of their home and then forced his 19-year-old daughter
to help dispose of the body.
But Gary wouldn't be caught for the savage crime for another seven years.
It was only because of the daughter's immense guilt that Gary was even caught at all.
She was so plagued by guilt at the terrible secret that she finally went to the local
police and told them what her father did, and after a trial that went on for nearly
22 weeks, Gary was convicted by a jury and sentenced to spend 25 years in prison.
Believe it or not, this was not Gary's first incident of abuse with a mail-order bride.
His first wife had moved from the Philippines to New York to marry him and have his daughter.
During the court proceedings for the murder, his first wife told the jurors that Gary had
abused her throughout their entire marriage.
At one point she even wrote her sister in the Philippines a letter saying that if she
were to ever go missing, Gary would be the reason for it.
In any case, Gary was a serial abuser.
After his first wife left, he shacked up with a Chilean woman who died suspiciously after
they moved in together.
The death was ruled as an accidental drowning – though now that seems pretty unlikely.
The only good news here is that Gary will be behind bars for the rest of his life where
he can't hurt any more women!
5: Murder in the Courthouse A mail order bride from the Philippines trying
to escape a bad marriage in the United States has been brutally murdered!
Even more disturbing is the fact that she was seven months pregnant when the attack
happened.
And even more-more disturbing, the attack happened inside of a courthouse in front of
plenty of witnesses!
The Filipina woman’s name was Susana Remerata Blackwell.
She was trying to escape her husband and was hiding from the man who she claimed beat her
and never let her leave their home.
He was extremely abusive.
So, she went to court to testify for an annulment.
While she was sitting on the courthouse bench with two of her friends, her husband approached,
aimed a semi-automatic handgun at her, and shot her in the head and chest.
Not only did he kill his wife and his unborn child, but he also critically wounded one
of Susana’s friends.
This is without a doubt one of the most brazen mail-order bride murders in recorded history.
The murderer has since been arrested and will undoubtedly be charged with homicide.
4: The Killer Wife In a shocking twist, a woman in China was
recently accused of killing her husband and then trying to sell her own babies!
The woman's name is Ayou, and she was a mail-order bride who had been purchased by a lonely Chinese
man and brought from Vietnam for $3000.
Not only that, but she had been purchased with help from her now-dead husband and his
father.
About a year after the arranged marriage, Ayou gave birth to twins.
According to the Daily Mail, she then murdered her husband and her husband’s mother before
stealing her own babies and trying to sell them to human traffickers for $7000 dollars
each.
The police said that Ayou killed her husband and her mother-in-law with the help of three
other men from Vietnam.
Ayou was only 21 years at the time and had probably been hoping to make a new life for
herself with the $14,000 she earned from selling her children.
But she never got that far, as police arrested her just hours after the bodies were found.
They also arrested others who had been involved in the human trafficking scheme to sell the
babies to willing buyers.
3: Vanished Without a Trace Jack Reeves murdered his mail-order bride,
but his murder spree goes way beyond just one unfortunate Filipina woman.
This story begins in 1978 when Sharon Reeves was discovered dead with a gunshot wound to
her chest.
It was initially ruled as a suicide.
But it was in 1994 when Emelita Reeves vanished without a trace, police became suspicious
of Jack Reeves, who now had a total of three dead wives.
Jack was only 18 when he first got married.
At the time, his wife was 15 years old.
Their marriage was annulled in 1960.
A year after that, Jack married Sharon before enlisting in the army.
He was stationed in Italy in 1967 when he shot and killed a local Italian because he
claimed the man was peeking into their bedroom window.
He spent four months imprisoned for manslaughter before the charges were dropped.
Jack then returned to the United States with his wife Sharon and their two sons.
In 1978, Sharon was found dead in her bedroom with a shotgun between her legs and a wound
through her heart.
Years later in 1984, Jack's third wife drowned in a lake.
It was considered an accident.
And when his dead wife’s sister demanded an autopsy be done, he quickly cremated her
body to cover up the evidence.
The final murder came with Jack's fourth wife.
He ordered Emelita from a mail-order bride catalogue in the 90s and brought her to America
from the Philippines.
In 1994 she vanished.
A lengthy investigation followed Jack and his trail of death, and he was ultimately
found guilty of murder in 1996 and sentenced to 35 years.
A few months later in August of 1996, he was charged with a second murder and given an
extra 99 years!
2: A Disappointing Marriage In 2007, a man from South Korea flew to Uzbekistan
to meet his future wife.
Before his flight, he had written down a letter stating his income, his job, and some important
medical facts that were all a part of his resume for the international marriage market,
something that is very much alive and well today.
The Korean man used a special broker whose job was to unite potential marriage candidates.
This guy found out later that his broker had lied to him.
He had never given his potential wife the letter he wrote and he had even lied to the
woman who he set the Korean man up with.
The broker told the Uzbek woman that her new husband would be buying her a house and that
he was rich.
This was not the case.
After the Uzbek woman arrived in Korea to marry her new husband, she realized he wasn't
as rich as previously thought.
She told him that he needed to buy her a house, but he couldn't do that because he didn't
have the money.
She then demanded to be returned to Uzbekistan.
But things get even worse.
After the woman was sent back to her home country, she reached out to the guy she never
married and said she was pregnant with his child.
Ever since, he's been sending her money – even though she’s never provided proof that there’s
even a baby in the picture.
It was all a great big scam!
1: Cold Blooded Killer Indle King Jr. had a history with mail-order
brides.
A few years before he strangled his mail-order bride from Kyrgyzstan to death, he had already
been divorced by yet another foreign wife after she accused him of beating her in the
head with his fists and smashed her face against a wall.
Using online portals, Indle King Jr. secured yet another young and beautiful wife from
a foreign country and lured her to the U.S. Anastasia Solovyova went from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
to a subdivision in the north of Seattle.
She was tall and beautiful while her husband was pretty unattractive to say the least.
They weren't really compatible.
And after a few months, this became obvious.
But rather than let it go, Indle King Jr. took out his anger on his new wife.
He began to physically abuse her.
Shortly after things started to sour, her body was found wrapped inside a blanket and
dumped in a shallow grave on the property of the Tulalip Indian reservation.
As it turned out, King and his friend, Daniel Larson, killed her together, strangling her
to death.
At the time this was discovered, Larson was already in jail for soliciting a teenager.
King got 28 years in prison and his dead wife’s family is left with the brutal memory of their
murdered daughter.
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