He Allegedly Used Google Translate to Fake a Text From His Missing Wife — and It Raised Immediate Suspicions
Maciejewska had been researching divorce and emotional abuse, enrolled in a "Divorce 101" class, and confided in friends about wanting to leave Gould, who reportedly opposed the separation, according to a criminal complaint obtained by ABC News
Over eight years, authorities gathered evidence suggesting foul play, including Gould's lack of cooperation, strange online activity, and efforts to retain a criminal lawyer early on, prosecutors saidA Pennsylvania man has been arrested on accusations he killed his wife, who went missing in 2017, authorities said.
Allen Gould, 60, was charged with first-degree murder, tampering with physical evidence and other related charges in connection with the death of his 43-year-old wife Anna Maciejewska, a native of Poland and the mother of a 4-year-old boy, according to ABC News, who cited the Chester County District Attorney's Office.
On April 11, 2017, a co-worker and friend reported Maciejewska missing, according to the district attorney's office. The following day, Gould called police to report his wife missing, telling authorities that the last time he saw her was the morning of April 10.
Through cellphone records and witness accounts, Pennsylvania State Police found out that the last time anyone ever heard from or saw Maciejewska was March 28, 2017, two weeks before Gould contacted police, prosecutors claim, the outlet reported.
On March 30, Maciejewska's dad received a text from his daughter's phone wishing him a happy birthday in Polish, but it had grammatical errors, prosecutors said, per ABC News. 'Police later determined the same message was researched via Google Translate despite that Maciejewska spoke Polish fluently,' prosecutors said in a statement obtained by the outlet.
A printout of the same Google Translate message was found in Gould's home, prosecutors said in the statement. Police then found Maciejewska's car in May, at an apartment complex parking lot located two miles from the couple's home.
Officers found divorce paperwork at the couple's home and noted that Maciejewska was taking a "Divorce 101" class, according to a criminal complaint obtained by ABC. A friend of Maciejewska's told police that she was unhappy in her marriage and that the couple disagreed on how to raise their son, the complaint stated. She told her friend she wanted a divorce, but Gould didn't, according to the complaint.
Per the complaint, Maciejewska, 'visited over 150 websites pertaining to divorce, signs of emotional abuse, psychological abuse, emotional blackmail, narcissistic personality disorder, domestic abuse vs. normal marital conflict and 'how to divorce an emotionally abusive husband.''
Chester County District Attorney Chris de Barrena-Sarobe said to several outlets at a news conference that all the interviews they conducted over eight years demonstrated that Maciejewska was a 'devoted mother' who 'loved her family.'
"There's nothing to indicate that she would stop corresponding with her family, stop spending any amount of money to go visit them and essentially abandon her son," de Barrena-Sarobe said at the news conference. "It simply doesn't make any common sense."After Gould reported Maciejewska missing, the criminal complaint said he allegedly 'stopped helping police attempt to locate his wife, wrote a check for a criminal defense attorney, clicked on an article about strangulation' and got a second cellphone.
Gould was arrested Wednesday, May 14, and is being held without bail. His preliminary hearing is set for May 27, per the outlet.
'He's been living under the specter of this for eight years,' Gould's defense attorney, Evan Kelly, told ABC News. 'At this point he just wants to clear his name in the court of law.'
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