In August of 2023, I received an unwanted letter from Luke Wenke, whom I had ended my friendship with more than a year earlier following his arrest for cyberstalking. It contained the forged signature of another victim and listed the person’s former address in North Carolina as the return address. But the letter was postmarked in Buffalo, thereby proving that it was sent in New York State.
I contacted Wenke’s federal probation officer, who had a condition added to Wenke’s probation terms banning him from contacting me. In other words, if Wenke contacted me in violation of the ban, he would also be in violation of his supervision.
I received another letter in early October of 2023, more than a month after the ban had gone into effect. The return label contained the name “Red Sox Headquarters” and an address that I believe belongs to Victim 1 (the Minnesota lawyer Wenke served prison time for cyberstalking).
A few days after that, I received a letter intended for another victim, which Luke Wenke had labeled with my address as the return address. The letter was signed in my name. It came to my home because the intended recipient no longer lives at the address Wenke tried to send it to and had used my address on the envelope.
Luke Wenke’s Double Proxy Marriage Obsession
The letters contained within the PDF below contain references to something called “double proxy marriage” and the state of Montana. In Montana, couples can get married without either party being present by having stand-ins act for them. After learning about this possibility, Wenke became fixated on the idea of being married to his romantic obsession, Ryan, via double proxy marriage. In the letters, he encourages me and a fellow victim to help him bring this fantastical vision to fruition by traveling to Montana and, I’m assuming, acting as the stand-ins — while apparently forgetting that legal marriages must be consensual, no matter how they’re officiated.
Luke Wenke would later deny sending these unwanted letters, despite bragging about doing so and obsessing over Montana’s double proxy marriage laws in a very public and obvious fashion on social media.
Unwanted Letters I Received from Luke Wenke in 2023
The following three PDFs (featured in separate viewers) contain copies of all three letters that I received from Luke Wenke and the envelopes they arrived in.
Katie’s Unwanted Letters from Luke Wenke | Letter #1:
August 2023
Katie’s Unwanted Letters from Luke Wenke | Letter #2:
September 2023
“Katie you like road trips. You can figure out payment with [fellow victim] (if you haven’t met him yet, go ask about him) to go to Montana with him to start the paperwork process to seal the deal. You know how to find the obvious culprit, too. -Janet [play on my former last name], your hometown music shop”
Katie’s Unwanted Letters from Luke Wenke | Letter #3:
September 2023
“Oh baby! Let’s go on a road trip to Montana and help two lovers seal the deal. They say we’re gonna be paid big bux to do this! Let’s make fake Red Sox accounts on whatever they call Twitter now, we’ll reach out to the internet yeller himself. Let’s go to the wide range of events in the area circled like the Haunted Hay Rides to discuss face to face.
Love, Katie [last name]”
Categories: Luke Wenke, letters, False Allegations: conspiracy/collusion; Obsessions: Katie Obsession, Ryan/Benjamin obsession
Tags: Buffalo, NY; Cattaraugus County, contact ban violations, delusions, double proxy marriage; Ellicottville, NY; erotomania/romantic delusions, Minneapolis, Minnesota, North Carolina, probation violations, unwanted contact, Victim 1, violations of supervised release (VOSR)
