Ian and Angela told police they believed “Lilith Is Truth” was really his ex, Michelle Hadley, saying the religious language and references to Lilith in the emails matched what she had written to Ian in the past. Later that month, Angela accused Michelle of posting photos of her in online ads soliciting men to rape her in Ian’s condo to fulfill a sexual fantasy. She told police that men had come to her home in response to the ads and claimed that on one occasion, a man had attempted to attack her in her garage.
That July, police arrested Michelle on felony counts of stalking and attempted rape, among other charges. Michelle spent nearly three months in jail until authorities realized that she hadn’t been involved in the harassment at all. After tracing the IP address for “Lilith is Truth,” they found that all of it—the emails, the ads—had actually come from Ian and Angela’s home.
This strange and layered case is the subject of the documentary, A Toxic Love Story, out July 22 on Netflix, which recounts the events that led to uncovering Ian and Angela as the true sources of the harassment. A former U.S. marshal, Diaz was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2023, for framing Michelle to make it seem like she was going to harm his then-wife, Angela. Authorities first connected Angela to the emails, and in 2017, she was sentenced to five years in prison for framing Michelle. Neither Ian nor Angela participated in the documentary.
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