The Case of Georgia Wilson and Edward Dubek

This casefile was compiled by Alva Keel through witness interviews and observations conducted by SQ.

      A friend of Mr. Callan's, Ms. Georgia Wilson, lost both of her parents while still a little girl. Before her father's death, he arranged to write her twenty letters, which the head of the orphanage where Georgia was sent, Father Calero, was to give her each year on her birthday. One letter per year, for twenty years. This year represented the last bit of correspondence. Georgia took it home and read it in private, overjoyed to have this connection to her father, but sad that there would be no more letters.
      The next morning, Georgia received a note in the mail from someone claiming to be her father. The details of the letter were so personal that she brought it to Mr. Callan; this message seemed to be authentic.
      Ms. Santos and I offered our opinions to Mr. Callan on this subject. Ms. Santos decided that we should track the piece of mail through its postmark. I offered the paranormal possibilities of how this letter could be real, the main one being that it was an apport. An apport is an object that materializes out of thin air, purported to be from the spirit world. Ms. Santos found the post office from which the correspondence came - it was a small one in an east Connecticut town called Birch Groves. Mr. Callan and Ms. Santos headed there to question the postmaster.
      He recognized the stamp on the letter as being a rare one that had not sold very well, so he was able to provide a list of people who had purchased it from his own recollection. Mr. Callan and Ms. Santos went to the home of Ms. Dale Wilkie, who at first denied she had sent the letter, but once Ms. Santos convinced her that she could get in trouble for what she had done, Ms. Wilkie admitted she had mailed the correspondence. She had not written it however; she claimed she had mailed it for someone at her place of employment. Ms. Wilkie worked at Delano Correctional Facility.
      Mr. Callan and Ms. Santos visited this prison to speak to the lawyer of a hit man on death row named Edward Dubek. The inmate, Mr. Dubek, also spoke with them, claiming that he had written Georgia's letter. He believed that God had given him this duty, of writing five or six letters per week, because God had forgiven him for his crimes. The prisoner seemed to know who the letters were for and desperately wanted these families to receive them. Mr. Dubek stated that the correspondences were written as he felt a "buzzing inside," would begin writing, and could not stop until each letter was done. His lawyer stopped the interview, informing Mr. Callan that he was certain his client could not have written those letters. Incredibly, Mr. Dubek could not read or write.
      Mr. Callan and Ms. Santos were able to obtain the address of at least one other person who was to receive one of the additional notes, so they interviewed this couple, who reported they had been receiving letters like the one Ms. Georgia Wilson received; this couple believed that the messages were definitely from their deceased daughter, Cheryl. The letters sounded like her, and were even in her handwriting. The letters were the first thing that had brought them peace since their daughter had been murdered. When asked who killed their daughter, they replied it had been Edward Dubek.
      From here, Mr. Callan and Ms. Santos researched Mr. Dubek's criminal case to find out who else he had killed. They then were able to interview several more persons who had also been receiving letters from deceased loved ones, all victims of Edward Dubek. The owner of a car dealership had lost his wife; life had been quite hard for him to take alone since her death, so his wife had been trying to help, even sending him recipes in her letters from the beyond.
      In the meantime, Mr. Callan presented everything he had found to Georgia, for her to judge for herself if the correspondence was indeed from her dead father. At the time, she could not be sure, but she did notice that the handwriting on her old letters, given to her by Father Calero, and these new letters did not match. Mr. Callan went to Father Calero for an explanation.
      Father Calero admitted that he had written each of Georgia Wilson's twenty letters based on discussions he and her father had about their completion shortly before Mr. Wilson had died. He fulfilled Mr. Wilson's dying wishes by finishing them all for him and giving them to Georgia. Although the notes did contain Mr. Wilson's words, they had not been physically written by his hand, which meant that they did not represent his handwriting. Could these new letters composed by Edward Dubek be in Mr. Wilson's handwriting?
      Soon thereafter, we received a report from a guard at the prison that confirmed for myself how Edward Dubek was writing the correspondence. The prisoner was found writing a letter after lights out. He wrote with an intense, almost unnatural speed; muttering; and was completely unresponsive to the guard's commands. When the guard took steps to stop him, striking him on the back of the head, he fell unconscious, but his hand continued writing on the page of stationary.
      Such a scene indicates a very intense example of automatic writing. This is writing conducted by a person while in a trance or other form of altered state of consciousness. This type of composing is usually performed by a medium, but not always. It is thought by those who subscribe to more classic ideas that these messages come straight from the spirit world, from the spirits of the dead. More modern ideas are that the messages come from the writer's subconscious. The fact that the correspondence Mr. Dubek wrote differed in handwriting from letter to letter, and that the handwriting actually matched that of his victims, and also the fact that he could not read or write, led me to the conclusion that these messages did indeed come from his dead victims, and Mr. Dubek was being given the ability to channel them.
      Georgia Wilson was permitted to speak to the prisoner to ask him if he had killed her father. He confessed that yes, he had been responsible for the fire that had taken her father's life. This confirmed the killer/victim connection in Georgia's case, also.
      The next day, a meeting was called by Mr. Dubek's lawyer; he wanted to give these families a chance to petition for a stay on the inmate's execution, which was coming up within a week. If he could be spared from his death sentence, then he could go on channeling the letters for these families. A majority of the families, including Georgia Wilson, signed the petition, successfully stopping Mr. Dubek's execution.
      Georgia Wilson found a way to prove to herself whether or not the letters really came from her father. Her plans were to write her father notes and put them in a drawer; if the letters channeled by Mr. Dubek answered those letters, then the contact he was making with her father was legitimate. Unfortunately for Ms. Wilson, she was unable to test her theory - shortly after he was released into the general population, Edward Dubek was stabbed to death by another prisoner.
      It was deduced that this prisoner's girlfriend had received a brand new car just before the murder. A brief investigation, and one confession later, and the owner of the car lot was revealed to have hired the prisoner to kill Mr. Dubek, using the new car as the payoff.
      Georgia Wilson has come to terms with the fact that she will receive no new letters from her father. She cherishes every bit of correspondence she has received, including the ones that were actually written by Father Calero, because they were composed from her father's heart. These letters, Ms. Wilson knows, are more than many orphans like herself will ever receive.
      This case is closed.

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