Remember v2 that used to work for me? She's been calling me alot for the last year or so. She's still in college (and still trying to pass algebra). She's still a work in progress, but she is making progress.
She moved to be near her university of choice last year. She's been working little part time jobs to make ends meet. Her husband stayed here to home school their 13 year old daughter.
Her husband ended up losing his disability. They caught him driving cattle trucks. He had to find a "real" job so he found work helping to take care of a paraplegic man. This man's wife (a nurse) insisted that he move in because her husband needed 'round the clock care. They paid him well. Extremely well. Ridiculously well.
V2 moved her daughter in with a friend who was willing to home school her with her own children. That didn't work out. The friend's daughter was not exactly a great influence on v2's daughter. She was sneaking out with boys, drinking and smoking.
A nice lady from their church offered to take care of the daughter. She wanted to groom her and make her behave like a young lady. Not what the daughter wanted, but obviously the best thing that's ever happened to her. Stability. She has matured beyond belief because this lady took the time to give her the right kind of attention. Her grades have continued to improve as has her self esteem.
V2's husband grew distant and secretive. V2 called me to see if I ever saw him around town with the paralyzed man. No, I saw him with the man's wife a few times. Mainly shopping. She suspected things were not as they seemed. I told her to ask him what was really going on but she didn't want him mad at her. (She didn't want him to cut off the money supply either.)
The man he was working for was paralyzed in a work-related accident. He was receiving huge payments each month on a court settlement. His wife had power of attorney. She blew through 38K per month like it was water. $38,000!!!!
Then the man died. No one knew about it for a couple of months. It was not listed in the obituaries in the newspapers. V2's husband preached the funeral. No, he is not a preacher. Something fishy was definitely going on.
V2 called me some time ago to tell me she suspected her husband was having an affair with this woman. Several weeks later, a co-worker called her to tell her he had her "school money". She asked why her husband couldn't bring it to her. The co-worker said her husband was told not to have contact with v2 or he'd be fired. Her husband stopped answering his phone. He'd call her back when he was alone. Sometimes. Mostly he just stopped contact.
V2 stopped by the shop about 6 months ago. She was not in good shape. I told her to point blank ask him what the hell was going on. She said her daughter had already asked her dad if he was having an affair with this woman. That's when they found out the man he was working for had died. His daughter asked him why he was still out there. He told her that he needed the money and that he was working for the wife now. The wife made it clear that he was not to have contact with v2 and limited contact with their daughter. She basically owned him.
He filed for divorce several weeks later. V2 called and asked about a good customer of mine. She needed a good divorce lawyer and wanted me to call him to see if he would talk to her. The lawyer asked if she'd received any paperwork. She said yes and that she had 30 days to respond. He looked it over for her and told her that her husband was offering her an incredible settlement. His advice was to take it. If it went to court, she probably wouldn't get 1/3 of what he was offering her. Her husband had offered her $3,000 per month in alimony, a new car, and $1,000 a month in child support until his daughter graduated college.
She got her divorce papers just a few weeks ago and her husband had already bought the car she picked out. She had moved into a better apartment. Things were looking up for her. Her attitude was better, something we haven't seen in a long, long time.
She was a little sad about the divorce even though their marriage hadn't been a very good one. She expressed that she'd invested a lot of time and stayed with him even when she shouldn't have. She was angry that he traded her in for money. She had worked to support them throughout their marriage. He would work just long enough to collect unemployment.
Here's a little background info that I've since found out. This paralyzed man's wife was a nurse. The man met her while he was in the hospital. When it was determined that he was going to get a huge settlement, she quickly moved in on him. He offered to "take care of her" if she would marry him and take care of his needs. She agreed but only if she had power of attorney over him and he left everything to her in his will. He agreed to that.
This woman is crazy. As in certifiable. She has been committed to the state hospital more than once because of her craziness that I know of. V2's husband helped to have her committed once. (V2's daughter let that slip out.) The paralyzed man's grown children had her committed another time. I also think she "medicates" herself with the wrong medications.
We still don't know what happened to the paralyzed man. We know he died but we don't know how or why. It was kept awfully quiet and I think his kids didn't know about it until after he was buried. Something definitely fishy going on here.
About 3 a.m. Friday morning, V2 called me sobbing. I had a hard time understanding her. She said something about murder. Her daughter was crying in the background. It was hard to understand her. V2 said she couldn't get in touch with her father. I thought she meant her father had been murdered. I told her that her father was ok. He was in Louisiana at his wife's ex-husband's funeral.
That's when she finally got out that her ex-husband had been murdered by the crazy lady. This crazy lady had shot v2's ex in the upper abdomen. A guy who had been doing odd jobs at the crazy lady's house had called to tell V2 that the woman had shot him and killed him. He told v2 that there were bullet holes all in the walls where she'd shot at him before. This time she didn't miss.
She's been arrested without bond. V2 feels like the woman is going to play the crazy card. The woman IS crazy. I told her to call the lawyer and talk to him to see what should be done concerning their daughter.
V2 got in touch with her ex's parents. They told v2 to make the arrangements with her daughter for the funeral because they were old and broke and couldn't do it. V2 told them that they were divorced, she just wanted her daughter to be able to make a few decisions concerning his funeral (certain songs and scripture). They told her to handle it or the state would have to bury him. V2 isn't working right now. She has no means of paying for this funeral. She doesn't know what to do.
The lawyer told her that she doesn't have to pay for the funeral. He said he is going to file a civil lawsuit to tie up the crazy woman's assets today. He also told her that her 13 year old daughter couldn't be held responsible for the funeral either. He is having her ex's lawyer deliver him a copy of his Will today. He did find out that her ex didn't put credit life insurance on her car. Unless she can come up with $600 a month to pay for it, she may lose it. He told her not to worry about it for now. He said he can hold off the bank for awhile with the civil lawsuit.
V2 is a bundle of nerves and rightly so.
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