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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Justin Rohrlich

He’s in prison for trying to order a hit on his online crush. Cops say he’s still targeting women from behind bars

Christopher Thieme is accused of cyberstalking a woman while serving a 17-year sentence - (Getty Images)

A onetime Republican political candidate from New Jersey serving a 17-year federal sentence for trying to hire a hitman to kidnap, torture, and kill a woman he met through an online dating service is facing new charges over a series of vile threats he made from behind bars, according to a grand jury indictment handed down this week.

“I will spank you and bruise you when I breed you,” Christopher Thieme allegedly wrote in December to a woman living in the Albany, New York area. “I will impregnate you soon. And keep doing so. You can’t run. I will destroy anyone who obstructs me. You belong to me and only me. Tick tock tick tock. Times [sic] up. Your body[,] my choice forever.”

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