Warrant details alleged affair

Cops: Former senior center director sent harassing, threatening correspondence to victims

HADDAM — The former director of the Haddam Senior Center sent harassing emails and anonymous letters to a man and his girlfriend after she was spurned by him following their sexual affair, according to state police.

During the week of May 22, Suzanne Wintsch, 38, of Church Hill Road, called police to say a male she knew said his girlfriend received strange emails at her workplace mentioning Wintsch by name, according to the warrant for her arrest.

Wintsch forwarded a series of emails to Haddam Resident State Trooper Enrico Milardo May 27 that were originally sent to the female victim from a person calling herself Joyce, court documents show.

In it, “Joyce” writes it was nice meeting the female victim and “I was very confused in our introduction. It is my understanding that (the male victim) is with Suzanne, our lovely new director at the Haddam Senior Center ... It is evident that he is quite with her. ... He is kissing her and touching her in ways that suggest they are together. He’s so dear to her kids, too,” the warrant said.

On June 2, the victim told police his girlfriend received a strange voicemail from a woman in addition to the emails, police said.

On June 6, the first selectwoman told officers that Wintsch “had violated town employees rules while on duty at the senior center,” documents read.

A town worker then told police Wintsch and the male victim were having a

sexual affair, and, when he broke it off, Wintsch threatened to call the man’s girlfriend to say they were together, the warrant said.

On June 7, the first selectwoman met with Milardo and Wintsch about allegations Wintsch was leaving the senior center without permission and that she had contacted state police without apprising her of the situation, the report said.

Wintsch allegedly denied the affair to police, saying they had a professional working relationship, then changed her statement to say they only had a “kissing and flirting” one.

On June 8, the male victim showed officers an anonymous letter he received in red font allegedly from a man that said, “we will stop when you tell (the girlfriend) about Suz” and “I’ve tried to get Suz’s attention for years. I failed. You win. ... She is something incredible and you have something I don’t.”

Three other letters in red font reportedly were sent to Wintsch without return addresses with her name handwritten and spelled incorrectly. They allegedly include threats, including “You will regret your boundaries,” “We plan to make your life hell,” and We’re gonna ruin you. Watch your back.”

Police said the handwriting matched Wintsch’s and an expert from the state determined the writing on the envelope and Wintsch’s “shared common authorship.”

The report said when Milardo told Wintsch he knew she sent the letters, she said twice that she wanted to move on. Milardo also said Wintsch refused to offer a written statement with her side of the story.

The town employee told officers Wintsch had confided in her about her sexual relationship with the male victim, according to the warrant. She also told police Wintsch was jealous of the girlfriend and had texted the employee “a bomb is brewing” and “it needs to be dropped,” the report said.

The male victim allegedly told police he believed Wintsch had sent the communications “as an act of punishment for my not leaving my girlfriend and take up with her.”

Wintsch was charged with interfering with an officer, second-degree harassment, falsely reporting an incident and disorderly conduct Oct. 15. She is free on a $10,000 bond and due back in Superior Court at Middletown Nov. 14.