Oak Forest Man Stalked Ex-Stepdaughter He Wanted For His Own Special Lady Friend: Police

An Oak Forest man stalked the daughter of his ex-wife after telling her he “wanted to be with her” and liked “her in a sexual way,” police said.

Wayne Raetz, 61, was arrested after he allegedly banged on the windows of the payday loan store where the daughter of his ex-wife was working.

When asked what he was doing, “Wayne advised that he works for AT&T and was going to the business for his employer,” police said. “Wayne appeared annoyed that (the officer) was questioning him and kept pulling his ID card on a retractable cord that was attached to his coat and showing it to (the officer) stating, ‘See I’m working.’”

Raetz at first denied he was at the loan store at all, then claimed he had not made contact with his 23-year-old former stepdaughter, police said, but eventually “admitted that he did wave to the victim … and he advised he did knock on the door but the victim would not let him in.”

And then “Wayne began to blurt Bible verses and said that he is only trying to save the victim because she is a fornicator,” police said.

The former stepdaughter went on to explain to the officer that “Wayne had been married to her mother for 13 years,” police said.

On Easter, the young woman decided to “introduce her boyfriend to the family as their relationship is becoming more serious,” police said. She “advised Wayne, who was intoxicated, became enraged that she had a boyfriend that was serious (and) told her in front of her mother that the only reason he is still with her mother is because of her and that he loves her and not her mother.”

Raetz “continued on about how much he loved her and wanted to be with her,” police said. “This upset the victim and the victim’s mother, Wayne’s wife,” and the stepdaughter moved out the next day.

Raetz’s wife “divorced Wayne within a few months,” police said, and he started showing up at her job at a different loan store, according to a police report. Then in August, the woman “observed Wayne driving past (her) apartment complex wearing an odd looking cowboy type hat and large sunglasses.”

Alarmed and disbelieving her own eyes, the woman told her boyfriend about it and he suggested taking a ride over to Raetz’s place, police said. There, they “saw his car parked in the lot. They stopped to look in the car and observed the cowboy type hat in the rear seat of the car which was the same hat Wayne was wearing when he drove past (her) apartment.”

The woman also said Raetz sent her several text messages in which he admitted to following her and “liking her in a sexual way,” police said.

Raetz reportedly wrote out a confession to going to his former stepdaughter’s job and “following her home (while) wearing a disguise so she would not see him,” police said.

Raetz was charged with felony stalking.

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