The following transcript is from a USA v. Luke Wenke court hearing that took place on April 10th, 2025. If at any point you’re in doubt over my role in the situation, I urge you to consider the following:

• I ended my friendship with Luke Wenke during the Spring of 2022 via a “cease and desist” letter while he was detained at the Niagara County Jail.

• In the letter, I explicitly stated my desire for no further contact and informed Luke Wenke that I would seek legal recourse if he disrespected this clearly delineated boundary.

• Between May of 2022 and December 1st, 2024, I remained largely off social media as part of my efforts to avoid further problems with Luke Wenke. My Facebook profile was deactivated during most of that time, and I occasionally posted on Instagram. I kept an extremely low profile in general, to the point where I became unnaturally isolated and began living like a recluse.

• The only contact I’ve had with Luke Wenke since May of 2022 (and into the present) was in the form of reiterating my desire to be left alone and my intentions to seek legal recourse should the unwanted contact continue. I only issued these warnings in response to unwanted contact, and did not initiate contact with Luke Wenke during this time period.

• Despite my efforts to be left alone by Luke Wenke, he targeted me viciously and relentlessly. He slandered and smeared me on social media, wrote humiliating and degrading things about my body and alleged lifestyle, and broadcasted any form of “dirt” he thought he had on me. Wenke often used my full name, my first name, and distinctive descriptions, i.e. “Katie V. with red hair.” He also discussed things that he believed were specific to my life and circumstances, including the town he believed I lived in. Here are some examples of what I endured:

• Threats to doxx my elderly parents (he thinks I live with them)

• Threats to SWAT my elderly parents (he thinks I live with them)

• Threats and actual attempts to file completely false police reports alleging harassment, theft, home intrusion, etc.

• Slut-shaming me based on completely false/made-up “information,” i.e. accusing me of sleeping with married men whom I have never even met (or, in his words, “breaking up everyone’s marriage”

• Falsely depicting me as a degenerate with an abhorrent lifestyle, i.e. a scamming gold digger, drug-addled prostitute, etc.

• Sending me terrifying letters signed with other victims’ names, and vice versa (sending other victims letters signed in my name)

• Throwing a tantrum and going on a weeks-long shitposting tirade when the police wouldn’t arrest me based on false allegations and without any actual evidence

• Name-dropping my ex-boyfriends, including a man I’m still friends with. We broke up seven years ago. He doesn’t know Wenke and fears for his young child’s safety due to Wenke’s behaviour. In other words, Wenke targets complete strangers based on nothing more than their past association with me.

• Stories that were completely made up to make me look bad, including that I siphoned an innocent man’s life savings and caused him to become homeless. I actually lost a lawsuit against that man, who I dated for two months in 2013 and haven’t spoken to since, and he did not lose any money in the process of being sued (his representation was free). He ended up homeless years after our relationship ended and had dated several other women before he became unhoused. I don’t talk to him and don’t know anything about his situation; I just know that I had absolutely nothing to do with it.

• Obsessing over my history of dating rich men during college. If I were fucking 10 different people per day, it wouldn’t be Luke Wenke’s business. It’s a free country. The reality? I haven’t dated in four years (and haven’t done any of the things that go with it) because I don’t want to put someone in harm’s way by dragging them into this life-ruining mess.

• Luke Wenke started targeting me while he was still in prison by mailing cruel letters about me to people (and, I suspect, with the hope of starting embarrassing rumours).

• Since mid-2023, Luke Wenke has mailed dozens of letters to the court about me containing false allegations, derogatory claims, and what seem like attempts to get me into legal trouble. Only 3-5 of those letters were sent after I created this website.

• Numerous fellow victims have received letters that they believe are from Luke Wenke, which contain slanderous and untrue claims about me. A few of the recipients told me that Wenke and/or his mother blamed me for the letters, claiming that I had forged Wenke’s handwriting and somehow faked the jail stamp on the envelope. Enough people have come to me with similar claims for me to believe that they are all likely telling the truth. These victims began receiving letters months (and, in some cases years) before I created this website.