one of those former patients now had terminal cancer, and she was suing him for not diagnosing it sooner. michelle says that for mark the malpractice suit was more than just a blemish on his reputation. it was a blow to his vanity. and though michelle assured him of her love and support, she said she could feel her husband pulling away. i knew he was stressed out about the lawsuits, but i really believed in my heart it was something we could fight against. a few weeks later, it was michelle who was devastated and needed support when she suffered a miscarriage and had to be hospitalized. and he promised, he swore that he would be there before i went under anesthesia. and he insisted that he had to go into his office to take care of some things, and he didn t show up. and i was shocked. whatever mark weinberger was doing in the office those days was also a mystery to employees like suzette dennington, weinberger s top medical assistant at the sinus clinic. he started to be on
folks. mark weinberger, 11 years older, was already a very successful ear nose and throat doctor. we were bonding about medicine because i had just gotten through doing a stint in neuroscience at the university of chicago. we were just making jokes about the medical milieu. he was very funny. so you hit it off right off the bat? we went out to dinner. it was thursday. i spent all weekend with him and by monday i was enamored and smitten. within months michelle had moved out of her parents home and into mark s townhouse in chicago. the whirlwind was on, athens, miami, caribbean sunsets and french champagne. michelle, you look beautiful. for a southwest chicago girl whose father was a pipe fitter, this was head-turning stuff. just want to say this is the best vacation ever. i love you, baby. her new love was a philosophy quoting poetry writing renaissance man.
he was buying milk, banana, cheese from you. yeah. monica spaconi, a transsexual, had recently had an operation to become female. she said the man who walked into her store bought groceries from her more than two dozen times in the winter of 2007-2008. sometimes he paused to make small talk. what name did he use? mark stern. then she says she didn t see him for a while. in the springtime, disappear. summertime, too. monica says that when mark stern returned at the end of november 2008, he told her he had been bicycling around europe. it was then, monica says, she and that outdoorsy american began skiing together practically every day. and he began telling her stories about his life. he told me to be married and to be divorced. and to have a strange wife, asking money, money, money, money, money.
right now so it s something that has to be done in order to try to separate myself from the debt that he s accrued. in october 2005, a little over a year after her husband literally jumped ship, michelle filed for bankruptcy. the person that i fell in love with, the person that i knew for five years, that person certainly was a soul mate and a best friend to me. this person who would leave behind such devastation in his wake, i don t know who he is. with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, michelle told us she should have seen the signs of trouble coming. mark was sometimes distant. he could be rude, even abusive to people he deemed his social inferiors. but the summer of 2004, a few months before mark disappeared, seemed to be the real turning point. michelle was pregnant. both of us could not have been happier at that moment. those good feelings lasted for a couple weeks. and then i had to go to hawaii for an apa conference that i was presenting at. presenting at the american p
weinberger and his wife michelle late december 2001 was just wa in winter, the skies over northwest indiana where the winter over northwest indiana where dr. weinberger practiced medicine usually had all the luster of but for weinberger and his wife michelle late december 2001 was just another caribbean holiday. it s a beautiful day here. it s perhaps good that the happy couple couldn t see the future on a day such as this because there was so much unhappiness ahead. in three years, he would be on the run, somewhere in europe, and she would be alone, brokenhearted and bankrupt.