Ian and Angela Diaz Convicted in 88-Day Plot to Frame Michelle Hadley

3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jul 25

Michelle Hadley spent 88 days in jail and faced a possible life sentence after Ian Diaz and Angela Connell Diaz framed her with fabricated cyberstalking and rape-fantasy allegations, a case revisited in Netflix's "A Toxic Love Story."
Digital evidence unraveled the plot: investigators traced threatening emails and sexual ads to the couple's Anaheim condominium, Angela Diaz's phone and her father's Arizona home, despite her use of about eight email accounts, VPNs and proxy servers.
Angela Diaz had already pleaded guilty in 2017 to charges including kidnapping, false imprisonment, perjury and forgery, while a later federal probe found former deputy U.S. marshal Ian Diaz had masterminded the scheme.
Ian Diaz was convicted on conspiracy, cyberstalking, perjury and obstruction charges and sentenced to 10 years and one month; Hadley was fully exonerated in 2017 and later settled claims against Anaheim officials.