[Music] [Music] this happened around the time of Valentine's Day I started working at boots when I wanted to pick up a second job so I could save money for a car it was just a part-time gig as a cleaner the other cleaner was this guy named Martin he was twice my age and despite us not having much in common Martin suggested we have a drink down at some Pub after work I didn't want to leave the guy hanging since he was my coworker so I took him up on his offer he paid for my first
drink initially I figured he was just being friendly but then he also paid for my second drink I told him this wasn't a date so I was fine paying for myself I can tell he looked defeated from being shot down but after some time he said he was okay with our relationship being purely platonic from there we moved on like nothing even happened and then I eventually paid for a final drink and walked home for the following few weeks Martin and I would still chat at work and occasionally go to the pub after work but
it was when we finally traded number numers that I realized Martin still had a thing for me he texted and called me often in the kind of way a teenager texts his Crush Martin even started showing up at boots on his days off when I was working just to pop in and say hi the whole situation was getting uncomfortable as Hell by that point he started asking me to hang out every single day I tried to gently remind him that we were just friends but he just wouldn't take the hint I started to realize that
Martin was really just a creepy and clingy old man I ended up telling my friends about Martin and how he was my coworker and was clingy and lonely and tried to get in contact with me every other day they made me realize just how crazy that was and convinced me to ghost his calls and messages and tell him in person that I just wanted to keep it a work relationship as soon as I made that clear to him through a phone call he literally started soing confessing his love for me I eventually hung up and
just swept the whole ordeal under the rug the next couple of weeks were awful Martin called me non-stop sending me messages every few minutes about how we were soulmates and that the Universe put me and him in the store for a reason I could mostly ignore that but I couldn't avoid him at work our manager had to tell him that he couldn't be there if he wasn't working or shopping because he was hanging around me so much his harassment made it damn near unbearable to work there so I eventually told my boss that I would
be quitting by the end of next week eventually on the day of Valentine's Day things took a turn for the absolute worst during the morning just before clocking into work I remember seeing Martin holding a large bouquet of flowers while smiling like a friend Happy Valentine's Day I took the flowers out of Spike and continued to work as if nothing happened but things only got creepier from there later that night I went out to get my mail that's when I saw Martin staring at me from the other side of the curb in front of my
house I was freaked the hell out he looked looked like he had been watching my house all night I never told him where I lived so I knew he had followed me home from work or something the situation had gone from a minor annoyance to a complete disaster but before I knew it he started walking toward me I yelled at him to go away and slam the door I didn't know whether I should call the cops or not I called my mom asking her how I would go about getting a restraining order but ultimately decided
to just finish out my last couple shifts then I'd have time to go to court I eventually finished my last day of work and started heading home for the night Strangely I hadn't seen Martin all day I was walking through the park between the workplace and my house when I heard something from behind a tree Martin what are you doing I came to give you this uh a love letter oh come on Martin I told you already I don't want you when are you going to stop no when are you going to stop denying the
truth we belong together we were meant for each other no Martin I don't want your flowers I don't want your letter I don't want anything to do with you anymore would you please just leave me alone please I'm begging you I'll do anything for some young love you know what they say the younger the fresher what the hell is wrong with you Martin please stop sh no more words for me my darling he I'll never stop not until we can be together I'll never never happy Valentine's Day this was a Valentine's Day story inspired by
a story based on a jealous worker who stalked and strangled a colleague he was obsessed with the victim was Heather Jordan whose remains were found in lingford park by dog walkers on the 18th of February 52-year-old Martin korns had denied taking her out but it was later revealed that he did in a fit of jealous rage after she shut down his advances the court herd curs had become obsessed with Miss Jordan after meeting her at Boots where they both worked as cleaners they started a platonic relationship where she described as committed friendship and the prosecution
told the court he took her out after she told him she wanted to stop meeting him corns bombarded Miss Jordan with more than 2,000 texts and calls watched her home followed her around at work and became increasingly possessive and jealous the jury heard he then took her out while she was walking from her home to her weekend cleaning job a torn up love letter was found scattered around her body and the slaying was made to look like a robbery she was found in a park Shelter by dog walkers Miss Jordan's mother told juror she intended
to Lodge a complaint of harassment against corns with bosses at boots she also said she did not like receiving a dozen red roses from him on Valentine's Day two days before the slay the jury heard KS was convinced Miss Jordan was seeing the supervisor at boots and refused to accept her repeated denials the courts found corns guilty and jelled him for life with a minimum of 17 years [Music] this happened around Valentine's Day at the time I was married to my husband Tony for 24 years we were high school sweethearts and got married after finishing
College we had two sons together and for as long as I knew Tony his best friend was this guy named David as the years went by and friends came and went Tony and and David stayed in touch that's when things started to get rough between me and Tony our honeymoon phase seemed to last forever but then one day something was burdening me about still being in the marriage unfortunately by then Tony had become worn out from Life buried in his work and either unable or unwilling to put in the effort to keep our marriage alive
this led to our first serious arguments in 30 years of being together so I went to David David was still friends with Tony but at that time they were more distant than they had ever been despite still being old friends with Tony David understood my plight and helped me through it he had similar issues in his marriage so he easily related to me I started to see David in secret just to talk eventually I realized I had truly fallen out of love with my husband that's when I started sleeping with David we both tried as
hard as we could to hide our Affair but it was hopeless we kept coming back to each other and I would try to see him every other day and every time I saw him we got intimate and kept cheating on our significant others after a few years Tony started to notice he started to Snoop around and berate me with questions like why was I really staying late at work or which friends I was going out with then one day he got a hold of my text with David and finally found out only I didn't know
that until he followed me to David's house and confronted us on the street what happened next between between the two of them was up until that point the most violent and frightening State I had ever seen my husband in you rat bastard this whole time you were screwing my wife stay back let's just talk about this there's nothing to talk about you betrayed me both of you destroyed everything it was already over Tony don't you understand that babe please shut it [ __ ] you're the ho that went and slept with my best friend no
wonder you're so damn boost down there a fight broke out they were wailing on each other punching and kicking and slamming I tried to break them up but the people on the street had to intervene they both came away from the fight with bloody knuckles and bruised up faces I didn't know what to do after I defaulted on going home with my husband but oh God it was unbearably awkward I felt like anything I said might set Tony off all over again I knew he was furious with me and with David but I couldn't put
all the blame on him when we got home we told the kids to go to their rooms for the night then we finally sat down to have the discussion At Last I admitted to Tony I wanted a divorce and that I wanted to marry David Tony went into a rage and screamed in my face about how much of a horrible person I was for destroying our marriage I didn't say much I just let him Tire himself out however every single day he would blow up about something completely unrelated and bring it back to the the
affair he didn't trust me to leave the house so I stayed mostly for the kids I was in there until Valentine's Day rolled around I knew for sure I didn't want to spend it at home so I left to go see David for the first time in a while there was nothing I could do to keep Tony from knowing where I went once he noticed I left so I was hoping that he wouldn't do anything crazy when I got there I parked my car by the side of the road and was greeted by David who
emerged from his driveway that's when I saw another car pulling up and it was Tony he got out of the car and revealed a firearm tucked in his waistband I remember seeing David bleeding with him but all it did was cause what happened to happen no you piece of [ __ ] you took my wife you ruined my Valentine's Day you ruined my life David did not survive his injuries Tony however somehow survived although the damage was severe after he was sufficiently healed he was arrested I am alone scared wrecked with guilt and shame so
debilitating I can hardly take care of my sons when I look at them all I can see is my husband's face sometimes intact and sometimes mangled this story was inspired by a disturbing incident regarding a woman at the center of a fatal Valentine's Day love triangle who had feared her husband would turn violent when she left him for her lover of 6 years 46-year-old Kathy Riley told her friends that she was afraid of her husband and that she feared he would do something to her or her longtime lover David Glenn Nichols she and EST stranged
husband Tony Riley had been high school sweethearts but had eventually separated after she told him she wanted to marry Nicholls the pair were still living in the same house in goong with their two teenage Sons on Wednesday at about 700 a.m. Riley followed his wife to Mr Nichols homes witnesses to the Valentine's Day slaying say Riley was armed and left off at his love rival witnesses to the Valentine's Day slaying say Riley was armed and let off at his love rival he then did the unthinkable after an hourlong standoff with the police Riley was taken
to the hospital and survived Riley has been remanded in custody and will be sentenced accordingly [Music] this happened a few years ago around Valentine's Day I had just come out of a serious 5-year relationship I wasn't looking for anything serious after that but was still open to dating that's when I met this guy on MySpace which was what everyone used at the time he was dis attracted guy who claimed to manage a fancy restaurant and own a house after talking for a while we ended up getting together we got along well at first but I
eventually found out that he had been lying about a lot of things he wasn't the manager of anything he was just a cashier and he didn't own a house either he lived with his parents Not only was he a liar but he was also a loser I wanted to leave him but I stuck it out for a while as he convinced me he would have all of those things however as time went on I saw him more and more for what he was that being a lazy piece of [ __ ] when I stopped believing
his BS he got angry we started getting into huge arguments and fights and I realized that the guy had serious anger issues he would scream and swear in my face right in front of his mother and even punched holes into the wall of her house one night after we'd been together for about a year his threats became real when he grabbed a baseball bat and started swinging it at me I managed to run to the bathroom and lock myself inside but that still didn't stop him he tried to smash right through it to get to
me open this door up so I can rip your ass in half his mother had to pull him away from the door and calm him down by then I had called the police I didn't come out of the bathroom until they arrived when they did my boyfriend had the audacity to claim I was the one attacking him he tried to get them to file a restraining order on me of of course they didn't believe him the door and walls had DED from the baseball bat he had and the fact that he didn't have any marks
or bruises on him at all instead I filed a restraining order against him and actually got one that's when I broke up with him and that's when the harassment started he found every way he could to try and contact me but I blocked and ghosted him at every turn he even got disposable phone so he could call and text me but I caught on this went on for weeks and no matter what I told told the police they didn't seem to care enough to help me things started to get legitimately scary so I eventually made
the decision to stay with my parents for a while I felt a lot safer around them as opposed to being alone knowing my ex knew where to find me I didn't like being alone in general which was what led me to date that psycho in the first place it felt especially depressing to be alone when Valentine's Day rolled around I hadn't been single for Valentine's Day for 5 years that night my parents went out for a day leaving me alone in the house for the evening I had nothing to distract me from the messages I
was getting from my ex despite getting a restraining order so I put my phone down and tried to watch TV but ended up getting tired and went to bed early I couldn't quite fall asleep right away though I kept hearing noises from outside it sounded like someone or something was rustling in the bushes I figured it was my parents coming home from their day but after several minutes I never heard anyone come into the house things went quiet again but I couldn't relax or try going back to sleep until I at least checked on it
I got up from my bed and looked out the window only to see my ex standing outside like a psycho freak we made eye contact which sent him sprinting toward the house I closed my curtains but the freak charged and busted through the front door that's when I heard his footsteps coming up the stairs there was no lock in my my bedroom and to make matters worse I couldn't find my phone to call the police before I knew it he kicked down my bedroom door and was standing right in front of me refilling a knife
from behind his back it had been a wonderful Valentine's Day up until the moment my wife and I returned home from dinner we thought that even with everything that was going on with our daughter and her crazy ex-boyfriend that she could be left on her own just for a few hours but then we got out of the car and saw that the front door had been broken in my wife immediately called the police I told her to wait outside while I checked the house the first place I went to was my daughter's bedroom and nothing
could prepare me for what I saw when I walked into her room my daughter was horribly butchered clinging to life and gasping for air we rushed her to the hospital but it was too late the man that took her out was on the run for a few hours before the police caught him what he did to this family to my daughter can never be forgiven this story was inspired by a disturbing Valentine's Day incident regarding a man named James Carter II who was sentenced to 60 years in prison for taking out his ex-girlfriend with a
knife the victim was his ex-girlfriend 25-year-old University of Hartford graduate student named Tiana notice the incident happened just outside her plane view apartment on Valen 's day it was alleged that the woman was punctured about 20 times and was barely alive when police arrived notice unfortunately passed 2 hours later at the Hartford Hospital it was just about a week after her 25th birthday in 2008 her relationship with Carter went South so she ended it Carter apparently wasn't happy with this decision Tiana even got an order of protection against Carter but that didn't stop him one
month before notice was taken out she had a draining order on Carter and unsuccessfully sought help from the local police department several times because she feared for her life her father and mother tearfully addressed the judge during the sentencing hearing and asked him to sentence Carter to the maximum Carter chose not to attend the sentencing hearing he was ultimately handed down a 60-year prison sentence and his case helped influence changes to the state's laws [Music]
