Divorce lawyers have been forthright on their use of Facebook to dig up dirt on the parties involved in divorce. Now spouses are doing some digging on their own.
Angela Voelkert, 29, knew she was headed for a messy divorce so she decided to pose as a teenage girl to fool her soon-to-be ex-husband, David Voelkert into revealing things that could be used in her divorce case. Mrs. Voelkert created a Facebook profile posing as a seventeen year- old named Jessica Studebaker, who her husband began chatting with.
He revealed to the girl that he had a GPS tracking device installed on Mrs. Voelkert’s vehicle to track her whereabouts. In the chats Angela’s husband also allegedly solicited the girl to hire some “gang-bangers” from her school to kill his wife. He offered to pay them $10,000 but was unaware that the messages where going to his wife. He asked the girl to run away with him once the deed was done. With all this evidence, a divorce attorney will undoubtedly be able to get a favorable divorce settlement for Angela.
David Voelkert was arrested for illegally installing the GPS device and possibly faces more serious charges.
Divorces can get nasty and people will often say things they don’t really mean, so it is hard to say if David truly wanted his wife murdered. Either way, his statements will cause him some troubles in divorce court. Angela’s divorce lawyer will have a sufficient body of evidence against her husband that the divorce most likely won’t be contested.
