By Tad Vezner
Pioneer Press
ST. PAUL, Minn. — After threatening his wife, burning her clothes and shooting the door of her relative’s home, Terry Glinnon had a few more things to say to her from jail, police say.
Those things -- which included a letter to the Maplewood police officer who handled Glinnon’s case -- led to additional stalking charges against the Oakdale man Thursday.
Glinnon, 61, who originally was sentenced for burglary and stalking in September, was charged with two counts of felony aggravated stalking in Ramsey County District Court this week.
The case started in May, police say, when Glinnon was arrested after arriving at the Maplewood home of his wife’s sister-in-law, where she was living after recently leaving him with their two dogs.
Glinnon had called the home beforehand, according to a criminal complaint, to say he was coming to get the dogs -- “Miss Ginger Marie” and “The Big Bear Man” -- to whom he would also later write from prison.
The wife had left after 44 years of marriage, the complaint stated, due to what she said was a history of abuse and alcoholism. After the break, Glinnon called her numerous times, swearing and screaming, and “said he would take no prisoners, spoke of it being a good day to die, made references to hunting...
“Glinnon already had a history of threatening to ‘gut’ his wife ‘like a deer,’ ” the complaint added.
The wife alerted police, and a Maplewood officer patrolling the area spotted Glinnon’s pickup truck on its way to the home.
Minutes later, Glinnon was at the door with a .357 Magnum revolver, shooting a bullet into the lock.
He was sentenced to an 18-month jail term and has been at the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Faribault since.
In his downtime, in addition to calling his wife 14 times from jail without her answering, Glinnon wrote multiple letters to her, the dogs, and the Maplewood officer who handed their case, according to a new complaint filed Thursday.
The letters, often signed, “EL DIALBO” and written “in a generally random combination of upper- and lowercase letters, all of which are clearly and apparently carefully printed,” include phrasing that police have interpreted as death threats. Unedited for spelling or punctuation, they include:
To his wife: ""Keep digging that hole deeper and deeper, I’am sure I can find a way to fill it, L.O.L. Tic, Tic, Tic Down to 19 month’s”
To the Maplewood officer: “After my vacation we must get together for time B.S. talks. ... By the way (officer’s initial) your number three”
To his wife again: “don’t get gun shy ‘yet’, still some time before season’s open. ... Deer are funny that way, you never know where they might come from, Could be near or far away. You need a good scope. You get a good standing shot it’s all over in a second.”
-- To the dogs: “Every dog will have its day but EL DIABLO will have two. Eye for a eye and a life for a life ... I don’t belong in a cage and every day my hate grow’s that much more.”
-- To his wife’s sister-in-law, after noting he was going to be out in 18 months, “then the countdown begins.” He ended the letter with a postscript: “P.S. How’s the heart? Tic, Tic, Tic ARMAGEDDON”
In one of his last letters, Glinnon stated, “Make sure your lesbian from M.W. (assumed by investigators to reference Maplewood police) see’s this letter, and can see first hand that it contains no threats or stalking patterns...”
The following paragraph added, “After every 24 hours I tell myself I’am 1 day closer to my out date and each one of you is 1 day closer to your sentencing.”
Maplewood Police Chief Paul Schnell noted that while it’s not unusual for those convicted to take issue with officers who helped to charge them, “Where somebody gives the kind of attention that this man did on an investigating officer, this is not a common occurrence.”
Glinnon is slated for release from his original conviction in May 2016.