CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) – An ex-wife of the man charged with killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood said that he vandalized the reproductive health organization years earlier when he lived in South Carolina.
Barbara Mescher Micheau told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Robert Dear came home one day and told her that he put glue in the locks of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Charleston when they were married.
“I just remembered it because I haven’t thought about him for a long time,” said Micheau, whose last contact with Dear was more than seven years ago, when their son turned 18 and Dear no longer needed to come for visits.
Micheau, who lives in Moncks Corner, South Carolina, said Dear never talked much about Planned Parenthood although “obviously he was against abortion.” She also recalled that Dear “was always plotting revenge against people he felt did him wrong and you know it didn’t take much for him to feel like somebody did him wrong.”
In the affidavit she filed to divorce him in 1993, Micheau described Dear as angry and isolated.