Mandie Reusch tried to ‘cover tracks’ after allegedly pushing ex to suicide: report

The Pennsylvania woman accused of driving her ex-boyfriend to suicide tried to “cover her tracks” as a grieving widow in the months after sending him a seemingly never-ending barrage of hateful text messages, according to a report.

Prosecutors said that Mandie Reusch, 35, had privately sent a series of “heinous and graphic” messages to former Army veteran beau Kevin Metzger threatening to sever his contact with their daughter and to replace him as the girl’s father with her new lover.

But publicly, Reusch mourned Metzger, 37, as a “great father” who had left a hole in their family after his June 2021 suicide, the alleged killer’s new boyfriend told the DailyMail.

“After he passed, she turned into a martyr and was posting all of these memorial pictures of him and saying how much she misses him and how good of a dad he was. I think just to kind of cover her tracks,” the man, who asked to remain anonymous, said.

In her steady stream of tormenting WhatsApp messages, Reusch allegedly admitted that she trashed Metzger’s belongings that were still in the house, insulted his appearance, bullied him into sending money and even urged him to take his own life.

Reusch also allegedly messaged him about how she would have sex with her new beau on Mother’s Day “while your daughter calls him daddy.”

“From now on we are [her new boyfriend’s surname] and you do not exist. [He] is her dad now. Not you. Don’t ever ask about her again. She isn’t your daughter. You’ll never hear about her again either,” Reusch allegedly wrote in messages obtained by the Mail.

“She will call [him] “dad” because he’s a way better dad than you. Kill yourself. I mean it… I actually want you to kill yourself because I think you are the worst person on this planet,” she wrote in another message.

But the new lover didn’t even know the daughter existed and believed his relationship with Reusch was “casual.”

The man told the outlet that he first learned of Metzger’s existence when the Army veteran threatened him via text over a video Reusch had sent of herself performing oral sex on her new boyfriend.

“She completely took advantage of me to make him jealous,” the new boyfriend said.

“I didn’t know they had a thing. She was single for all I know, for the first I think two months, then he messaged me wanting to fight.”

The man said his relationship with Reusch — who he said considers herself a practitioner of Wicca — was “very strange” and was “never official” in spite of the threats she had been making to her ex.

After nearly a year withstanding her bullying, Metzger penned a suicide letter and posted it on Facebook mentioning Reusch’s text chains.

“Maybe she was right,” Metzger wrote before detailing the “trail of torment and solicitation” that he was allegedly put through by Reusch.

Reusch was investigated for two years before she was arrested Tuesday.

She has been charged with aiding suicide, a felony, and harassment, a misdemeanor.

If you are struggling with suicidal thoughts or are experiencing a mental health crisis and live in New York City, you can call 1-888-NYC-WELL for free and confidential crisis counseling. If you live outside the five boroughs, you can dial the 24/7 National Suicide Prevention hotline at 988 or go to SuicidePreventionLifeline.org.