A scorned woman

When we unveil the evidence that we have collected for a client, often times events start to transpire that are out of our control. We have seen things that would remind you of something out of an episode of Cheaters or Jerry Springer even. We do not condone nor encourage any of our clients to lash out with violence or destruction. Nevertheless, it sometimes does happen.

Last year around the beginning of summer, we did a case for a woman who had been married to her husband for over 20 years. Upon meeting her, we concluded that she was one of the sweetest women you could possibly meet. She was coy and had a tone to her voice that melted our hearts. It is sometimes difficult for us to not be emotionally attached to some (I said some) of our clients. At first, we were sure that her husband was not cheating on her. We had gone out several times and got no evidence whatsoever that would indicate an affair. We chalked up our clients feelings as a midlife crisis or symptoms of menopause. However, even we are wrong at times.

We were out making our final attempt at gathering evidence when low and behold he picked up a young woman from a restaurant parking lot after leaving his office and immediately headed to a hotel down the road. We were not sure if this woman was a hooker or just his much younger girlfriend but regardless of what she was, we knew they were not eating snacks and sipping tea in that hotel room. To make a long story short, we were shocked at what we found.

So once we got back to the office it was time to telephone the client and break the news. This is never an easy task especially when the client is sweet and low maintenance. The phone call went well until the husband walked into the door while we were still on the phone with her. Instead of telling us, that he was home and hanging up the phone, she decided to just set the phone down. What we heard for the next few minutes scared us so bad that we ended up hanging up on our end and calling the police to have a police car dispatched out to their home.

There was screaming, obscenities that a sailor would be shocked to hear, items breaking, fists a flailing and you could hear the husband screaming in pain. It was terrible and something I never expected from this sweet woman. Needless to say, the evidence we had, was sent over to her attorney instead of having to meet with this crazy woman ever again.