
In several of his letters to the court throughout 2023, Luke Wenke mentioned the prospect of me, his cyberstalking victim, and Brett — the father of his romantic obsession, Ryan — testifying against him at an upcoming probation violation hearing. This confused me, because the authorities hadn’t mentioned this being a possibility since more than

Luke Wenke was accused (and later convicted) of sending the following self-pitying diatribe to his cyberstalking victim’s business partner just weeks after his release from federal prison in 2023. Prosecutors argued that this constituted indirect contact, thereby violating a court-imposed condition of supervised release banning Wenke from contacting his victim in any form. In addition

During a court hearing on August 10th, 2023, the federal judge overseeing convicted cyberstalker Luke Wenke’s case found Wenke guilty of violating the conditions of his supervised release by indirectly contacting his cyberstalking victim. This occurred in the form of a volatile email that Wenke sent to his cyberstalking victim’s business partner just weeks following

The two transcripts below contain word-for-word accounts of what was said during court hearings that took place on June 21st, 2023 and June 23rd, 2023. Luke Wenke was accused of violating the terms of his federal supervised release by indirectly contacting his cyberstalking victim via an encrypted email that was sent to the victim’s business

The following document is a post-hearing brief that the U.S. Government, aka federal prosecutors, submitted following an evidentiary proceeding that was held to determine whether Luke Wenke suffers from a mental illness warranting involuntary inpatient treatment. In it, U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiacomo and Assistant U.S. Attorney Franz Wright argue that Luke Wenke suffers from persecutory,

In late April of 2025, the federal judge overseeing Luke Wenke’s case ordered Wenke to undergo involuntary inpatient mental health treatment. The decision came on the heels of multiple mental evaluations that were carried out over an extended time period, which resulted in Wenke being deemed competent but likely mentally ill and in need of

Luke Wenke sent this letter to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in May of 2025 while detained at the Niagara County Jail in Lockport, New York. Luke Wenke Appeal – Letter May 22nd, 2025 CASE #23-6964, DOC. #21 Katie Mentions: 7 To read a “transcribed” version of the letter, scroll past the PDF viewer.

During the summer of 2023, Luke Wenke was found guilty of violating the conditions of his supervised release by indirectly contacting his cyberstalking victim by emailing the victim’s business partner. He was sentenced to time served and 34 months of continued probation. Shortly thereafter, Wenke’s public defender filed an appeal on his behalf via the

USA v. Luke Wenke – District Court Judgment August 22nd, 2023 CASE #23-6964, DOC. #2 Categories: Luke Wenke, appeals, Court Documents: Judgments Tags: Buffalo, NY; conditions of supervised release, contact ban violations, cyberstalking, indirect contact, probation violations, unwanted contact, U.S. Bureau of Prisons, Victim 1, violations of supervised release (VOSR)