Stalking Suspect Sent 65,000 Texts On Love ‘Journey’: Police

PARADISE VALLEY, AZ — Online dating apps are heralded for bringing lonely hearts together, but for an Arizona man, the experience turned into a bizarre, months-long obsession punctuated by 65,000 text messages, stalking and death threats. In one instance, police in the Phoenix suburb of Paradise Valley said Jacqueline Claire Ades, 31, broke into the home of the man she considered her soulmate and took a bath in his tub.

Ades, who spoke to reporters from jail in a rambling news conference on Thursday, said she was just showing her love for the man, who had told her that he wanted nothing to do with her. But Ades acknowledged that if he wanted her to be in jail, that’s where she should be.

“If [he] wants me to go to jail, I should be in jail,” Ades told the reporters . “I appreciate it. He’s the light, I’m the love. He knows what to do and I follow the rules.”

Ades met the man on the online dating app Luxy, a dating site for verified millionaires, according to police.

“I felt like I met my soulmate,” she told reporters. “I thought we would just do what everybody else did and we would get married and everything would be fine. But that’s not what happened.”

Police said Ades was most recently arrested Tuesday, four days after she allegedly showed up at the man’s business in Scottsdale and was “acting irrationally,” claiming to be his wife. She was ordered to leave and after Scottsdale and Paradise Valley police conferred, Paradise Valley police took her into custody without incident. She was charged with threatening and intimidating and stalking, both felonies, as well as a misdemeanor charge of harassment, according to a police news release.

Before that, police said they were called twice — in July and December of 2017 — on reports that Ades was parked in her vehicle outside the man’s property. On April 8 of this year, the man was out of the country, but called police to report that his home surveillance system showed that she was in his home, the release said.

Police said Ades was taking a bath when they arrived and a search of her vehicle revealed a butcher knife. She was released from jail and given a court date, but soon after began sending the man threatening text messages “that harm may come to him,” the release said.

Police records reveal some of the 65,000 text messages, sometimes as many as 500 a day, including one in which she allegedly threatened to kill her love interest if he ever tried to leave her.

“Oh what would I do w ur blood! I’d wanna bathe in it,” she reportedly wrote.

The text messages also contained anti-Semitic threats, police said.

On one occasion, she allegedly wrote: “I hope you die . . . rotten filthy Jew . . . lololol Im like the new Hitler… man was a genius.”

Asked by a reporter about the number of messages she sent, Ades said, “That’s it? To me it seemed like more.”

“Isn’t that kind of excessive?” a reporter asked.

“Love is an excessive thing,” Ades replied.

Ades said she was “following the number 33,” which she said was part of the equation of love, and was on a journey to “find my healing angel” when she met the man on the Luxe app. She said her love was unconditional, but he acted “weird.”

"He put a GPS on my car, I think," she said. "He put something on my phone so I couldn’t use it."

Ades said she and the victim began communicating when she lived in Miami and they made arrangements for a date on Jan. 19, 2017. She said she spent three days in his home, took a three-day trip to California and then returned to Arizona.

“This was when we were still kind of talking,” Ades told reporters. “I told him, ‘If you ever block me on this app I would come and move here.’ So he blocked me, so I came here.”

She told reporters that “when you’re finding love, not everything is perfect.

“This is a journey,” she said.

Photo via Paradise Valley Police Department; YouTube video via AZ Family