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.
The following PDF contains copies of all three letters, the envelopes they came in, and transcriptions of two of the letters.
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