While detained at the privately-run Northeast Ohio Correctional Center (NEOCC) in Youngstown, Ohio (referred to by Luke Wenke as “CCA”) during the summer of 2024, Luke Wenke apparently encountered some of the more harsh realities of life behind bars, resulting in a rare attempt at self-reflection. In the following letter, Wenke makes a thinly-veiled attempt to act remorseful for his role in causing his entire life to go to shit. But he only acts regretful on the surface, as evidenced by his assertion that his victims simply can’t handle the truth and that maybe he needs to administer it in a softer way.
Based on his wording, it seems like Luke Wenke was planning to turn over a new leaf. He swore he had experienced a change of heart and even vowed to stop talking so much shit, but anyone who knows him likely did not hold their breath based on this promise. And a quick look at Luke Wenke’s current social media content, or even the letters he sent just days and weeks after this one, proves that he had no real intentions to change despite his stated plans — especially since much of this content targets me and other victims whom Wenke says, in the letter below, that he plans to stop saying horrific things about.
USA v. Luke Wenke – Letter
August 27th, 2024
CASE #1:22-cr-00035, DOC. #148
Katie Mentions: 1
To read a “transcribed” version of the letter, scroll past the PDF viewer. 🙂
USA v. Luke Wenke – Letter – Doc. #148Luke Wenke #148 – Page 1:
“I am starting with a letter to the court so I can do the right things to get this wrapped up the right way.
“It is impossible to place blame on any one person or agency for my arrival here. You don’t place people at CCA unsentenced and get away with it. It’s a Republican jail. It’s a legal default zone. This place changed my heart’s pace probably for the better.
“It’s a private jail though. Does Google own it? You don’t know what Miss Tate the officer here tells us when we walk in. John Sinatra wants credibility. Challenge this place, they can afford to challenge your court on their own dollar. Do it John Sinatra, who owns this place? Google? I am very competent and I remember the conversation at Orleans County Jail with my mother about Google’s monopoly concerns. Is this place putting lies on it’s employees’ pay stubs about who owns CCA? Your court doesn’t know. Private jails make people talk, so get ambitious with these Google claims. Miss Tate is an officer’s name here. Put it on her. I remember her. Older black woman.
“It’s a legal default zone. Time to waive things. I know what was said in court July 30th. I do not have the heart to verbally hurt anyone even in writing. One day at CCA changed my heart over. I’m not even going to allow shit talking about anyone. You don’t know what someone is going through. I have an aggressive cellmate and it is teaching me new things my first day…”
Luke Wenke #148 – Page 2:
“…back at this place. One day here makes me say the words human heart. I don’t know why I never talked like that much.
“You can’t tell this place what to do with me but you can challenge it’s ownership. We don’t want a monopoly affecting a place like this. Google lying about what it’s own private jail residents did to get here is bad. We want John Sinatra and Frank Passafiume on Neil Cavuto together. They challenge this place in court. They will challenge back. Competition improves the quality of the product. My heart switched here. Call me into court and I have a different tone than July 30th. I don’t want Fonda nervous about me. I can’t stand one more heartbreaking word from my mouth or writings about Katie, the [Ryan’s family], or the [Victim 1’s family]. Maybe I don’t like to lie but I think I’ve worded the truth too hard. I can change my wording so they are less mocking. Why should people across state lines want me around just because I have the means to get there? The Confederate Flag is a thing. The internet desensitized our hearts. All I ever did was not pay more sensitive attention to who is behind the electronic devices and how they feel for too long.
“The court and officers’ hearts matter too. Quite a bureaucratic cooperation to get me here unsentenced. Government employees’ hearts matter too. Challenging CCA’s ownership breaks no hearts. This legal default zone’s quality matters because it altered my mind on day one. -Luke Wenke”