2013, my single mom met a guy. His name was Joel Lenz, or "Mr. Perfect", as he sees himself. They got married at an informal wedding about a year
later, January 2014. I was happy my mom finally found another guy after 4 years, so I rolled with it. I was a bit apprehensive at first, but I warmed up
to Joel a bit. Of course I was still in contact with my biological dad, so our relationship wasn't as close, but we hung out on the couch sometimes and
watched tv, bantered, went out to eat, whatever else a stepdad does with their son. One day, we got back from a vacation with my biological dad and
my mom and Joel sat down to talk. Joel had mentioned he got an out-of-state job. It was way up in Minnesota, but he would regularly come back
home, and on top of that we would get tons more money from it! Long story short, he took the job and flew up there for a month or so. As he got
promoted his business took him all over, even to North Carolina where he could get together with his biological kids more often. I was fine with him
leaving and coming back so often as long as he was fine with it. He seemed to enjoy helping us out. So one day after staying here in April for a week he
leaves back to NC for work. We wait. and wait. and wait. Of course you can kind of see where this is going but it gets interesting. I knew my mom and
Joel were having a bit of a kerfuffle over finances and whatnot lately, so I grew skeptical. I had a sneaking suspicion of what happened. Just as my
mom begins to dig deeper, she gets in contact with a lady in North Carolina; we'll call her Law Lady here. So Law Lady, who happens to be a paralegal,
tells my mom she's been duped. Big surprise. I actually expected it at this point and didn't really care since I was careful enough not to get too
attached at first. But oh no, he wasn't just living a double life in NC... he was living more like a... what do you call a life x5-10? Yep. He had probably
around 10 other "wives" (not sure about the exact number), and my mom was the 5th. He used the same disguise with every one, and the worst part
was what was coming. Law Lady, who was actually one of Joel's former wives, says that when one of his wives becomes annoying/too smart/etc, he
leaves and cuts them off of their finances by taking control of their account. It's because of this that he targets single moms with kids; he enjoys
seeing people suffer under him; one heck of a sociopath. Exactly what just happened to us. He harassed my mom via email saying he will force her to
come live with him in NC or else. She doesn't, he cuts us off (and lies to the court multiple times claiming he pays our rent and he was never married),
and boom. September 24th, 2015. We're homeless for the first time. Luckily my mom has some kind of deal that applies to certain hotels, so we are
able to stay for an extended amount of time at one of them. My mom and Law Lady begin to rally up all his former wives, mostly over in NC, and Joel
slowly runs out of wives to hide with. Each one he tells a different story to, then vanishes. Of course, we already had a trap set. Law Lady bought us
tickets to North Carolina so her, my mom's awesome attorney, Joel's landlord whom he conned, and a ton of his wives can all appear in court against
him as a surprise. Today, October 27th, was the hearing. Joel's eyes grew about the size of Texas when he saw them all. He had no attorney. No one
but himself, assuming his "Mr. Perfect" ego could get him through it if he throws another lie at the court. He stutters through the whole thing
nervously. He tried to get my mom in jail because she still had one of his tvs HE left there purposely. Obviously he couldn't lie anymore, so my mom
provides a motion to dismiss. All he could do is stand up and stutter "I-I object to... the motion... to dismiss..." of course it was denied, we won. As we
pass by, Joel gives one last angry glare at us. He looked angrier than ever, outsmarted by a kid, his mom, and everyone he tried to trick in the first
place. It's not over for him though. He's already lost his reign of destruction but he must go to many more hearings and finally face all the people he
tricked in person. The tyrant Joel P Lenz has finally been taken down. There's no where left for him to run. Joel has tried to make countless people
homeless, but I'm glad it's finally over for us all. A week from now, we'll be moving back to our house. I wish I could hang a picture of his horrified face
when my mom personally showed him the motion she filed
. Anyways, I finally got this whole incident off my chest, just had to put it somewhere, I dunno if this is the right place, but I'm glad I said it. People out there need to know just how much of a monster this guy is. If you are/were in a similar
situation to this, just know that they will be brought to justice eventually, and they'll have to answer to every single mistake they made. Their first one
would probably be trying to mess with you.
TLDR: My stepdad was a sociopath. He got caught, woohoo.
Spaced out the Great Wall of Text for those who have trouble reading text blocks
Edit: Welp, he's back kids! I recently heard he's been harassing many of the people who caught him with some real nasty emails. He's tried to hide by moving, but through research we have his address (again). I also hear he has practically brainwashed his biological son with his mindset, telling him horrible, horrible things. I was supposed to meet this kid and become his brother. Joel's daughter is still oblivious. Despite brainwashing his kids, he has still tried to hide what he has done all his life from them and has somehow succeeded. The good news is that he's still a gullible lil' guy. He absent-mindedly posted something recently talking about one of his past wives (not mentioning his other ones). All he said was
"(wife initials) come back
miss you
im sorry"
So he blatantly gives away to the court that he indeed has multiple wives, which is being addressed in about a month. Also, with some digging, we found out he was began seeing someone else the very month before he and my mom got married... yup, he's still a widdle ol' d-bag, but figured I'd update people who also wish him a miserable life
. The best part is still to come for us though... for now I'll just say all the money from his future paychecks is gonna go towards something even better.
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