Latest From The DLA Piper Associate Killing -- A Secret Double Life

Unsealed court documents offer new revelations about the case.

The tale of DLA Piper associate David Messerschmitt’s stabbing death took another turn late last week when unsealed court documents appeared to reveal what many of us already assumed based on the description of the crime scene: Messerschmitt was leading a double life, maintaining separate email addresses to set up covert encounters with men without his wife’s knowledge.

From My Fox DC:

Just days following the murder, Messerschmitt’s wife showed police a portable tablet computer with her husband’s Gmail account. It was then that police were able to find that Messerschmitt was using an all-male social network known as Grindr, and he had an alternate email account, dcguy456@gmail.com, on Grindr as well as Craigslist — where detectives say he made the posting for male company to meet him at The Donovan Hotel.

Detectives say that account exchanged messages with a chrissanchez0906@yahoo.com email address. Documents state Messerschmitt asked the person on the other end of the Yahoo account to meet him at Room 400 between 7 and 7:30 p.m. on the night of the murder.

It’s tragic that — in an age where marriage equality appears right around the corner — someone might have felt unable to express his sexual identity, and that this secret may have ultimately put him in the position to be murdered by an opportunistic criminal. It also adds to the family’s suffering because, as Law and More points out, the people who loved him now have to come to grips with the fact that they may not have fully known David.

David Messerschmitt – Unsealed Court Documents Reveal Long-Term Double Life [Law and More]
Unsealed court documents detail murdered DC lawyer’s double life [My Fox DC]

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