Man racks up 38 charges in stalking case

Posted: Feb. 8, 2012

Waukesha - A Pewaukee man has been charged with stalking and dozens of counts of violating a protection order, according to court documents.

Jeffrey S. Marisch of 333 Park Hills Drive was charged in Waukesha County Circuit Court with a felony count of stalking and 38 misdemeanor counts of violate foreign protection order. He is being held in Waukesha County Jail on $250,000 bail and is scheduled to appear in court Feb. 16 for a preliminary hearing.

Marisch's former girlfriend, a former Village of Pewaukee woman, fled the state in 2010 to get away from him, according to court documents. She said Marisch had physically and mentally tormented her, and said she was being relentlessly stalked by the 50-year-old Marisch through cyberspace and the phone. According to the criminal complaint, the woman said she has lived in terrifying fear because of the incidents.

The woman, who is not being identified due to the sensitive nature of the case, told Arizona police she and Marisch dated from about February 2006 to March 2010, when she moved out of state.

The woman said she left Marisch because he was "extremely abusive," "mentally ill" and had "an explosive and violent temper," the complaint said.

By the end of the relationship "she was in fear of her life," the complaint said. She alleged that Marisch had physically and sexually assaulted her during the relationship, threatened her with a gun and knife and told her "he could cut her body into small pieces to make it easier for him to hide the evidence," the complaint said.

Once such incident is alleged to have occurred in December 2009 or January 2010 when the woman tried to leave their residence. Marisch pulled out a hunting rifle from under the bed, pointed it at her, threatened to shoot her and then forced her back into the bedroom and forced her to perform sex acts, before he agreed to put the gun away, the complaint said.

The woman said "this was just one of many episodes," the complaint said.

The woman said after she left Pewaukee, Marisch attempted to find her by calling her phone, family members and police in an attempt to get messages to her, the complaint said. At one point, the woman's cellphone carrier contacted her requesting permission to release her contact information to Marisch because he had contacted the company saying it was important to get in touch with her due to a death in the family, the complaint said.

In October 2010, Marisch went through a local police department in Arizona to get a message to the woman stating he was offering her a $2 million trust fund to return to him, the complaint said. The woman said "the officer who conveyed the message told her his department had received hundreds of calls from Marisch asking them to convey this message to her," the complaint said.

On Jan. 5 the woman sought a protection order in Arizona.

On that day the woman contacted police in Arizona stating Marisch had accessed her credit reports by posing as her in an attempt to locate her. Marisch also created false profiles of her on Facebook and an adult website using her name, address, work and home phone numbers.

Marisch also called the woman numerous times despite the woman telling him to stop calling her, the complaint said.

The day the woman applied for the protection order, Marisch allegedly sent her 12 offensive images, along with "several excessive rambling messages," the complaint said. The woman alleged Marisch sent her offensive images an average of "50 times a day," the complaint said.

In December 2011, the woman's employer talked with her about inappropriate emails that looked like she had sent to her co-workers. However, Marisch allegedly was sending hundreds of pornographic emails to her co-workers with email address similar to the woman's, the complaint said.

Marisch also sent emails of himself dressed in woman's lingerie and "then would follow up by sending packages containing the lingerie he was wearing in the pictures," the complaint said.

On Jan. 12, a Village of Pewaukee police officer gave Marisch the protection order issued in Arizona. process and court hearings.

Within 12 hours, the woman received 38 phone calls as well as 15 text messages from Marisch, the complaint said. In one message, sent shortly before 7 p.m. Jan. 12, Marisch said he loves the woman, and shortly after midnight, Marisch called the woman a liar as well as a derogatory name.

Marisch sent two messages after 1 a.m., Jan. 13, one saying he hoped the woman would "die in hell" and then five minutes later stated he would kill himself if she did not call him within 10 minutes.

The woman said she changed her address five times, her phone number five times, her cellular provider three times, as well as her email address and place of employment several times in the last year.

The woman said she now sleeps in her living room so she can monitor the doors and windows in case Marisch would show up. She has "multiple readily available escape routes should she need one," the complaint said.

Pewaukee police obtained a search warrant and on Jan. 12 entered his residence, where they found dozens of photographs of the woman on the walls, as well as dozens of photos of other women, some naked, partially clothed, involved in sex acts. The women bear a resemblance to the women, the complaint said.

Police also found documents and folders indicating attempts to locate the woman in Arizona, including Map Quest results, the woman's Social Security and numerous other printouts, the complaint said.