Church Administrator Stabs Wife's Lover With Butcher Knife: Prosecutor

ORLAND HILLS, IL -- A church administrator lured his wife’s lover to a fantasy rendezvous and then stabbed the man with a butcher knife, prosecutors said in court.

Kevin C. Montfort, 42, of Orland Hills, appeared before Cook County Judge Donald Havis on a felony charge of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. He was arrested Feb. 16.

According to the charges, Montfort used his wife’s iPad to send messages to a man he suspected his wife was cheating with. Montfort, pretending to be his wife, invited the man over for a fantasy rendezvous.

The man had never been to their home before and believed it was Montfort’s wife sending him the messages, the prosecutors said. Montfort allegedly told the man that the front door would be open.

The prosecutor said when the man showed up to the home in the 16600 block of South Liberty Court, Orland Hills, he found the front door propped open. Montfort allegedly sent messages telling the man to go to his wife’s bedroom where she would be sleeping, who wanted to engage in a fantasy.

When the man entered the bedroom Montfort jumped out of a closet holding a butcher knife, the prosecutor said. He apparently yelled, “I got you now, m-----------.”

The prosecutor said Montfort blocked the bedroom door and told the man he would have to charge him if he wanted to get out. When the man tried to escape, Montfort is said to have stabbed him in the arm with the knife.

The man was able to escape and called police. The prosecutor said an 8-year-old girl was in an adjacent bedroom and screamed throughout the ordeal.

The assistant public defender called the man’s wound a “glorified scratch on the forearm.” He told the judge that Montfort was a devoted family man. He was a “big member” of his church where he worked as an administrator.

“He has a limited criminal background except for traffic tickets,” the assistant public defender said. “His wife was having an affair. It is clearly a mitigating circumstance. He’s not a danger to other people. He can comply with the conditions of bail.”

“To me this is a premeditated act,” Judge Havis said.

Bail was set at $150,000. Montfort’s next court date is March 10.