She presented the disturbing email Garcia had sent her, as well as dozens of subsequent text messages repeating his threat to kill their child. But shortly after getting his letter, Tagle went to family court and pleaded with San Bernardino Superior Court Judge Robert Lemkau to grant her an emergency restraining order that would prohibit Wyatt from having unsupervised contact with Garcia. Tagle and Garcia had joint custody, and she was legally required to hand Wyatt over to Garcia for the weekend. It was revenge, he said, for Tagle abandoning him.

Her stomach turned as she reached the fatal ending: the “necessary evil” he described was Garcia murdering Wyatt. It was a story he had written her, but it wasn’t fiction: the characters were Tagle, Garcia and, their baby, Wyatt. The email subject line was “A Necessary Evil.” She opened it, her heart pounding in her ears as she tried to make sense of the words, her head still foggy from sleep. He had recently petitioned the court successfully for shared custody of their 9-month-old baby, Wyatt. She had left him five months before in August 2009, after he had beaten her so severely she was knocked unconscious.

It was from Stephen Garcia, her ex-boyfriend. SALT LAKE CITY - On a bone-chilling January morning in Yucca Valley, California, 23-year-old Katie Tagle woke up to an email that made her heart stop.

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