An ex-wife of the man charged with killing three people at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic said Tuesday that he has targeted the reproductive health organization before.
In an interview with NBC News from South Carolina, Barbara Mescher Michaux said Robert Dear Jr. put glue in the locks of another Planned Parenthood clinic when they were married more than 20 years ago. She characterized him in an affidavit she filed to divorce him in 1993 and in her Tuesday interview as a violent, isolated man, matching the descriptions of others who knew the 57-year-old.
Some have speculated that Dear was not motivated by opposition to abortion rights.
But Michaux said it seemed clear what drove Dear there. “For him to plan this and go there, he meant to go there,” she said. “There is no doubt in my mind.”
In her affidavit, Michaux said Dear appeared devoutly religious.
“He claims to be a Christian and is extremely evangelistic, but he does not follow the Bible in his actions,” Michaux wrote.
