In 2017, Jacqueline Ades matched with a man on a dating app that markets itself to millionaires. They chatted for a few days and went on one date. He decided he wasn’t interested and told her so.
That’s when the texts started.
Over the next ten months, Ades sent the man more than 159,000 messages, roughly 500 a day, every day, for nearly a year. They ranged from desperate pleas to graphic threats. Some were unhinged. Some were genuinely terrifying.
“Oh what would I do w ur blood,” one read. “Id wanna bathe in it.”
“I’d make sushi outta ur kidneys n chopsticks outta ur hand bones,” read another.
In July 2017, the man called police after finding Ades parked outside his home. Officers escorted her away but made no arrest. The texts continued and escalated.
In April 2018, while the man was out of the country, his home surveillance system caught Ades breaking into his house. When police arrived, they found her in his bathtub. On the passenger seat of her car was a large butcher knife.
She was arrested and charged with stalking and criminal trespassing.
In a jailhouse interview, a reporter asked her whether she thought sending 159,000 texts was excessive.
“Love is an excessive thing,” she said.
In a separate police interview, she seemed to grasp, at least partially, that the man didn’t share her feelings. “It’s OK if that’s how he feels,” she said. “Somebody else should love him. He’s the light, I’m the love.”
She Sent a Man 159,000 Messages After One Date—Then Police Found Her in His Bathtub
