Ex-wife says Colorado suspect vandalized another clinic
Source: Associated Press
Ex-wife says Colorado suspect vandalized another clinic
By Bruce Smith and Sadie Gurman, Associated Press
Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015 | 1:19 p.m.
CHARLESTON, S.C. — The man accused of killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic left a decades-long trail of broken marriages, scant social connections and a reputation for religious zealotry that didn't match his yen for gambling and extramarital affairs.
New court documents and interviews reveal Robert Lewis Dear as an occasionally violent, fundamentalist loner who was known to nurse a grudge. He had one for at least 20 years against the reproductive health organization he is accused of attacking, going so far as to put glue in the locks of a clinic in Charleston years earlier, eerily reminiscent of another gunman's efforts to glue shut a Wichita, Kansas, abortion clinic's doors before killing a doctor there in 2009. The clinic in Charleston was not a Planned Parenthood facility at the time.
But still unknown is what caused Dear, 57, to escalate from petty vandalism to the fusillade he is accused of unleashing at the Colorado Springs office, where a law enforcement official said he rambled about "no more baby parts" after his arrest. Colorado Springs police have refused to disclose a motive for Dear's violence, but there's mounting evidence that Dear was deeply concerned about abortion.
Dear's ex-wife, Barbara Mescher Micheau, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that her former husband came home one day bragging about gluing the doors of a clinic. Michaeau, who lives in Moncks Corner, South Carolina, said Dear never talked much about Planned Parenthood, although "obviously he was against abortion."
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we could figure out what his motive was. Hmmmmmmm. It's such a puzzle.
