The Disturbing Secret Behind “don’t hurt me mommy”

The Disturbing Secret Behind “don’t hurt me mommy”

There is a disturbing video on YouTube posted on March twentieth twenty eleven the title is dont hurt me mommy the owner of the account was arrested and sentenced to life in prison now pay attention to the woman in the video her name is Christine Belford the person filming wants you to think she is mistreating her children but when you read the comments the amount of outrage tells you there is more to the story and in seven Christine s three children will disappear this is David matusitz Christine s ex husband on August twenty sixth two thousand seven Christine lets David take the kids after he promised them a fun trip to Disney World two weeks later the children are missing and David is nowhere to be found what follows is an eighteen months International Manhunt as David his mother Lenor his father Thomas and his sister Amy will orchestrate the worst case of cyberstalking the state has ever seen the first people in the entire country convicted of cybering resulting in death.

I am in the courthouse and we got shots fired here first and foremost this was not a random act of violence we are in the courthouse in the top Lobby I do not know what the status is yet shots have been fired inside a Wilmington Delaware courthouse in the lobby I got two additional witnesses say a man shot and killed two women our next shooters down we are now getting word that the gunman may be dead the FBI is on site Secret Service shooting occurred at about eight this morning on February eleventh two thousand thirteen an unidentified man opens fire inside a Wilmington Courthouse fatally shooting two women before taking his own life the investigation is still preliminary at this time processing the entire scene we have tactical teams searching every floor of that Courthouse the gunman s vehicle a white SUV is found parked across the street inside police find a red notebook in which is written a hit list of future targets one of the names Timothy hitchings Christine Belford s lawyer obviously I was intended to be killed that day we did not know who might still be at large looking for me.

CCTV footage shows two men exiting the vehicle before one of them calmly crosses the street and enters the courthouse alone at twelve ten p m police release a statement to the Press saying the gunman was related to one of the victims one victim was reportedly the shooter s estranged wife David mattz shot and killed bford inside the Newcastle County Courthouse the truth however is far more disturbing detective Shriner who was called to the scene on February eleventh describes in an interview exactly what he found I heard on my police radio about a shooting at the courthouse obviously I immediately responded I saw two individuals on the ground there was another individual on the ground just outside the rotating door when he walks across the lobby he recognizes one of the people deceased I said to myself oh my and I knew what this was about detective Shriner is the only person on site to be familiar with the case of Christine bford and David matusitz right away he assumes he knows who the shooter is but detective Shriner is wrong September ninth two thousand seven six years before the shooting at around nine p m detective Jeff Shriner of the missing person s unit receives a call from a distressed mother claiming that her three daughters have been kidnapped the woman on the phone is Christine Belford and the man who she claims abducted her children is her ex husband David matusitz along with his mother Lenor matusitz Christine explains that David took the girls on a two week trip to Disney World in Orlando Florida but never returned at first Shriner does not think it is a kidnapping just another case of parents fighting over custody.

I did not initially look at it as something strange parents they are not concerned about getting the children home they want to get as much time with the children as they can but when Shriner tries to contact David he is nowhere to be found his suspicions increase when Christine shows him the custody papers it states that David made various allegations claiming Christine is an unfit mother and that he should have full custody he started off by saying I was bipolar trying to have me committed so he could have the kids as the investigation begins shrer first looks at credit card records it shows David s last transaction was made on August twenty sixth the day that they left for Florida they just told us he was taken off it is your worst fear come true it is not ever good when it is a stranger but when it is your parent I have a very hard time believing that a parent would do that right away detective Shriner sends out a missing person s report but no one knows just what David and his mother have in store more than two thousand miles south in hialgo Texas Christine s three daughters Laura Lee and Karen are sitting in the back of a Winnebago David and Lenor are upfront after driving on Interstate Highway two David takes a nearest exit and turns on International Boulevard toward the Mexican border in less than one mile us jurisdiction will end as he reaches a customs Booth the agent grabs their passports and asks how many people are inside the RV as David answers he shows no signs of being worried neither does Lenor the agent can hear the girls talking and playing in the back he looks at the passports one at a time then hands them back to David and opens the gate David and Lenor have now successfully crossed International lines what authorities do not know is David started planning his crime as early as last year and December two thousand six he made arrangements to get fake IDs for himself his mom and all three girls David crossed the Mexican border on August twenty eighth and left no Trace behind now with a two week Head Start they could be anywhere investigators search David s house they find ties to a New Zealand bank account and to Canada Shriner has also discovered that David sold the vision center for six hundred and fifty thousand dollars what is worse David has taken a line of credit for two hundred and forty nine thousand dollars under Christine s name for which he forged her signature.

I am sitting here in Delaware trying to figure out where they could have gone what they could be doing searching on the internet doing whatever I could she was very strong through all of this I do not know how she did it it was all with with Grace even though she had not slept the night before she would go out there and try to do right by those kids November two thousand seven Christine s daughters have been missing for two months Thomas matusitz and his daughter Amy Gonzalez deny knowing anything about where David and Lenor went strangely enough both Thomas and Amy moved to edcouch Texas less than twenty miles from the Mexican border all those things did not add up at all at that point I assumed that the whole family was involved the search goes International every news Outlet talks about the kidnapping of three girls by a Delaware optometrist this is video of Dr David matusa witz in August two thousand seven police allege he left the country with his three daughters US Marshals get a hit they find that David is hiding in s aul just one hour outside of Panama City they mobilize a team but David vanishes before they can move in on his house soon after the FBI gets a hit on David s passport crossing over to Costa Rica and then nothing for the next sixteen months the chase grows cold March two thousand nine Christine is losing hope she has not seen the girls in eighteen months Karen the youngest will be turning four soon she had just turned two when her mother last saw her Christine s eldest daughter Katie describes in an interview a glimpse into what Christine went through.

It was hard we would get tips saying that they were here or there so my mom would get on a plane and then it would just be no they are not there my mom started to feel worse and worse about everything it was getting to a point where I do not know if we would ever find these children at that time the FBI gets a break after tapping Amy s cell phone they trace one call to South America to the small town of Katarina Nicaragua we did put an all points bulletin out to be on the lookout for a thirty three ft RV with Delaware tags on it it is not a very common vehicle in Nicaragua March thirteenth two thousand nine a police officer in Nicaragua pulls over a car for a routine traffic stop the driver of the car is David and with him his daughter Laura David has been going around town selling his daughter s belongings for money after he spent the entire one million dollars he planned for his kidnapping as David hands the officer his driver s license the officer ignores it and instead asks David to step out of the vehicle David is immediately put under arrest and Laura is taken to the police station less than an hour later Lenor and the two youngest girls are located in the RV a few miles away that same night Christine jumps on the first plane to Nicaragua it was exciting to hear that they had been found but it was almost unreal because they had been gone for so long how do you believe something like that although she is thrilled when she is reunited with them Christine is shocked to hear what David has been telling them about her Laura the eldest who is now six says she was told her mom had ended her life one of the most spiteful things you can say to a child is your mother did not love you enough to stay in this world and it also indicates to a child who has been kidnapped she is not coming help is not on the way David pleads guilty to one count of international parental kidnapping and one count of bank fraud he is sentenced to four years in prison followed by five years on probation Lenor pleads guilty to endangerment of a child and is sentenced to eighteen months in jail.

It was a relief to know that they were away but my mom knew that while they were in jail she had to terminate their rights before they got out again although David and his mother Lenor are behind bars and the children are now safe the nightmare that lasted nineteen months was only the opening act to the terror the matusitz have in store for Christine on December twenty second a letter is sent by David from prison to Amy s house it reads I am done playing Mr Nice Guy no one understood what kind of monster they were dealing with march two thousand nine four years before the courthouse shooting the return of Christine s three daughters makes the front page of the news journal showing a picture of Christine with Laura and Karen when my sisters first came back they were actually super skinny they had cavities in their teeth Karen had pink eye in both eyes they just did not look like themselves for a while life is almost back to normal with David Behind Bars Christine can finally breathe a sigh of relief at that time a woman reaches out to Christine after she heard about the kidnapping Cindy Bender added my mom on Facebook and sent her a message saying like hi I had been following the story and I just wanted to reach out and you know make sure you guys are okay she say she dated David matusitz in the past and understands what Christine is going through she becomes an unlikely friend offering a safe space for Christine to open up my mom shared information with Cindy about the girls schools and their grades and what sports they were playing she would update her with pictures of the girls I remember speaking with Christine about this basically telling her I do not trust her and we need to watch who we are talking to.

December two thousand nine less than one month into David s sentence a mysterious web page begins to circulate its title A Grandmother s impossible Choice the content is a fabrication of the matusz it details in twenty nine paragraphs allegations against Christine claiming that she sexually abuses her daughter Laura all about abuse molestation it is an Abomination if you knew Christine you would never have an ounce of Doubt what a great mother she was I was shocked when I first heard the allegations why would they do this after everything else they have done why say something like this never did they make those allegations once before they kidnapped them but it is just like they just keep trying they just throw all them up the walls to his sticks I have got to stay on track so I just keep fighting and put one foot in front of the other but how can this website get posted when Lenor matusitz is sitting in a jail cell with no access to the internet Amy Gonzalez in a letter sent from prison to Amy s house David gives clear directives to his sister for a variety of plots to spread the story Amy begins mailing printouts of the website sending it anonymously to Christine s friends and neighbors to the schools of her children even to her church Christine bford was a Sunday school teacher she resigned her position teaching first graders about Jesus because she felt that she could put them in danger just by being there their goal out of all this was to make my mom look as bad as they possibly could and they wanted to show her that they were still in control of everything I think the campaign against my mom really started to take a toll on her she did a very good job of hiding it from us and making at least my sisters think that everything was okay feel like it is like I am always dodging a bullet I am tired I am tired what am I going to do it is never going to stop he is never going to stop Christine struggles to Shield her daughters from the Matt s reign of terror her eldest daughter Katie is now sixteen and Laura has turned eight Katie helps as best she can to support her mom in protecting the three girls but the moment Christine has been dreading for eighteen months is finally here.

September sixteenth two thousand ten Lenor matusitz is released from prison Christine has a restraining order against the entire Matt s family and yet Chris frequently felt like she was being watched she said I do not know if I am just paranoid March twentieth two thousand eleven a friend of Christine sends her a video circulating online the video shows Christine being stalked as someone is filming her with her children the person is watching from inside of a car just down the street from her house this video is then sort of repackaged posted on YouTube and weaponized the title of the video is don t hurt me mommy the editing selects moments where Christine holds her daughter by the arm as any parent would do to keep her children off the streets only now with this title Christine is meant to look abusive I think any mom would get their kid out of the street I think the child abuse would have been if she would have left her out in the street they worked on Christine mentally to try to break her to strip her of hope to maybe say okay take the children the children is my main purpose if I was not here what would happened to them would they go to David would they be in foster care but there is been times where I am like should I just give up the fight and I am like I can not I can not I have come too far love those children and I have been through so much and they have been through so much they need me December two thousand eleven Lenor and Thomas drive over two thousand miles and come knocking at Christine s door unannounced the children are home but Christine is not there my sisters were terrified when they realized that Thomas was at our house I tried to take them into the bedroom but they were still scared thankfully Jerald is there he confronts Tom and Lenor and is able to send them off but the damage is done when she hears what happened Christine no longer feels safe in her own home.

We got cameras put on the outside of our house we got three German Shepherds she had bats in her room and she also had knives next to her bed I was scared all the time she is completely tormented by this and you know what she does she tries to sell her house she knows they know where she lives and what happens hi Chris hope all is well your way anything new going on emo when you can give the girls a hug for me talk soon Cindy sorry about the delay the kids are doing well happy in school nothing recent with David s family since they were around beginning of December houses for sale and I have had several people in to see it what Christine does not know is Cindy is also chatting online with Amy David s sister hi girl wanted you to know I heard from the girls they seem to be doing well and they are excited about Halloween they promised me pictures of them in costume so if I get them I will send them along so you can copy them to show Dave like Dave said he will live through me LOL Cindy please let me know you got this and remember they did not come from me sh Cindy someone Christine trusts and appreciates is going behind her back to the very people she is terrified of it turns out that Cindy has never stopped loving David and the two have maintained a sexual relationship virtually via email now that David is in prison Cindy relays information about the girls to him through Amy because of Cindy s Email exchange the matus are now aware that Christine is planning to move they arranged to get pictures taken around the property of each entry each window each camera installed David will be released in four months and they are planning a home invasion Christine has no idea but she can feel something is wrong Chris did tell people that she thought that they were going to kill her in a letter to her attorney Christine writes David has nothing to lose at this point he has lost everything he may allow me to survive to suffer I may survive long enough to watch the girls be harmed I may even go missing Christine is expecting the worst she trains her daughter Katie for an emergency escape through the master bedroom window if any of the matusitz come knocking Christine would hold them off downstairs while Katie is to gather the three girls run up the stairs and lead them out the window where a rope ladder awaits when we knew David was getting ready to get out of jail my mom was getting super anxious she always wanted us like in the house or if we were out she wanted to know exactly where we were who we were with April thirteenth two thousand twelve.

David is released from federal prison as he is placed on a five year probation he goes to live with his family on Ed couch soon after he writes to Amy the following email prepare yourself to be managing four children by this time in two thousand thirteen as Christine is getting her kids ready for school she keeps a happy face making sure the girls do not get worried but Katie knows exactly what is troubling her mom I was kind of nervous that morning because I knew that she had court a simple child support hearing that is all it was intended to be I knew that David was going to be a court my mom was very stressed out she tried to not show it to us but you could tell I asked her do you want me to go to court with You Chris I will go I will take the day off work but Christine declines as she is already planning to go with her friend Beth at approximately seven fifty five a m Christine pulls into the parking lot of the Newcastle County courthouse and walks up to meet her friend at the entrance inside the front s lobby is filled with security guards employees and civilians after passing first through the rotating door Christine walks to the metal detectors followed closely by her friend Beth before she can recognize his face a man takes out a gun points it at her chest and pulls the trigger.

I was at my grandma s house I was actually looking at my phone and someone had posted that there was a shooting at the courthouse my phone rang twice and it was someone from Christiana Hospital are you Gerald purcel do you know Christine and he told me that she had died it felt like a huge part of my heart was gone Katie was crying she said um they did it they did it they killed my mommy they killed my mommy Christine was shot and killed her friend Beth Mulford was also killed two security guards were also wounded in an exchange of gunfire the shooter was struck as he attempted to exit the building he then turned the gun on himself detective Shriner who was called to the scene discovers Christine on the floor of the lobby he is convinced the shooter is David but Shriner is wrong once I observed the body the next reaction I had was oh my God it is not David the shooter is actually David s father Thomas matusitz where is David securing him became the top priority because shooting Christine in the courthouse was not the end of their plan I was crying and like confused but my first thought was to go get my sisters right away police try to locate the three daughters Laura Lee and Karen as Shriner knows David or any other member of the matusitz clan will go after them next state troopers race to their schools hoping to find them in time all three girls are to be put in protective custody moments after the attack David is spotted inside the building and put under arrest he denies knowing anything of what his father did yet when he is told of his death David does not show any emotion the girls are found and brought to a safe house awaiting transfer to an undisclosed location I got to go into a room where my sisters were I did not know that that would be the last time that I would see them Lenor and Amy are brought in for questioning both obviously deny having any knowledge of Thomas s plan apart from the white SUV in the Courthouse parking garage the FBI searches the house in

Ed couch and collects thousands of pieces of evidence the matusz may have succeeded in eliminating their target but their plan is far from over even with Thomas dead David arrested and with Christine gone Amy and Lenor are left behind to carry out the last phase of their plan there was only one way to stop them and that was to put them away forever February thirteenth just forty eight hours after the shooting Amy Gonzalez sends out a petition for custody of the kids she sent in a petition to a courthouse that has not even been reopened yet after the killing February twenty first ten days after the shooting Lenor matusitz appears on a podcast episode series where she defends her husband Tom her attempt to salvage the situation as well as to clear her name comes off most disturbing he would never hurt his family the meningioma the tumor changed him Tom was not behaving normally for the longest time he told me he would not bring his guns Tom did not plan any of this he was planning a Reuben sandwich party we already have the fresh corn beef and the sauerkraut and my husband loves to eat he was an adoring husband father grandfather Uncle son in law brother in law but the worst part comes when she reiterates the allegations of abuse against Christine Shameless and vile she attacks the woman who can no longer defend herself and she does so by speaking on Laura s behalf and then she said I have to do things to Mommy it is a big secret if I ever tell Mommy is going to be in trouble I do not want my mommy to go to jail she said that mommy taught them all about the G Spot when they were in the bathtub.

August eighteenth two thousand thirteen prosecutors bring their indictments in front of a grand jury right away Lenor and Amy are arrested has no comments no comments why June eleventh two thousand fifteen the trial Begins the first ever case of cyberstalking resulting in Murder the evidence against the matusitz is overwhelming over six hundred items collected by the FBI multiple handguns thousands of rounds of ammunition pictures of Christine s house with security cameras circled emails uncovered proving the matuso were using third parties to get information like Cindy bender and Courtney Emerson another one of David s Mistresses all of which led to the inescapable conclusion that they were prepared to commit an act of violence against Christine Belford the most disturbing of all might be a printed version of the serenity prayer Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill because they pissed me off but with all the evidence brought up against them David Lenor and Amy are stoic their defense Christine was an abusive mother and they did what they had to to protect David s three daughters when Katie takes the stand she defends her mother with all her heart describing how she was terrified and pleads to the judge the matusitz will never stop until they have my sisters Katie is now twenty years old she has not seen Laura or any of her Sisters in two years she is worried the matusz will convince the jury that her mother was abusive and that they will succeed Katie is horrified at the thought that they could get the girls back the matuso are relentless they were methodical highly organized and ruthless there is only one thing that could bring them down the one person they never expected could testify against them the matuso witches create a story that only Laura can rebutt on June twenty second Laura who is now thirteen years old takes the stand her testimony is given behind closed doors for her own safety but one sentence from

Laura s mouth is shared with the Press none of it is true she was never abused everything the matuso have said is a lie she was the one at the very end who restored her mother s reputation in a way that nobody else could that is a lot for a twelve year old girl to Bear the matuso stood silent and the lies fell apart right in front of the jury this trial represented an extension of Christine Belford s fight it represented the bravery and courage of her children who came into this courtroom and testified on her behalf David matusitz his mother Lenor and his sister Amy are all found guilty and sentenced to life without parole they will never get out of prison again it is a victory for three young girls in Christine I think my mom had to fight for my sisters continuously and be strong for them because she wanted them to have the life that they deserve to live Christine left behind a legacy that will never be broken of four beautiful daughters four girls who are strong now we are stronger because of everything that we went through through them Christine s memory lives on and she becomes stronger than ever the matuso may have taken her life but they will never take away her spirit we do not have this false reality of everything being great we know how the real world works and we know the dangers of everything my mom never gave up and she was wrong and she fought till the very end the children is my main purpose so I just keep fighting and put one foot in front of the otherland I do not really have very many friends but the friends I do have I am very loyal to so even losing one is a heavy blow for me this man was the last person to see nineteen year old Lee Porter before she disappeared he claimed he is a worried friend and he goes on TV to plead for her sfe.