Pillsbury-Foster has special insight into Fund, having had her own affair with him two decades ago. Her daughter met Fund in 1998 and soon became pregnant, whereupon he asked her to get an abortion and allegedly told Pillsbury-Foster that the only relationship he'd had with her daughter was to "feed her cat." Pillsbury was so irked, she secretly taped a conversation in which Fund berated her for telling her mother about their affair. The tape showed up on WeaselSearch.com last September, after which Pillsbury claims Fund told his bosses that the tape was a fake, and that Pillsbury had merely "spent a few nights on his couch."
In fact, Pillsbury had moved in full-time last summer, and Fund treated her as his "do-it-yourself Stepford wife," according to her mother. Pillsbury says that when she first moved in, she found no food, only lots of dirty dishes, unopened mail, and bottles of alcohol from hotel mini-bars. The freezer was empty and "completely covered with living, crawling bugs," while the floors were "covered with piles of black socks and dirty underwear." She began cleaning up the mess. As she was paying overdue cable and phone bills and putting household purchases on her credit card, she says, Fund instructed her to write checks from his checkbook. "He showed me how to write the check and how to write his name, with a curlicue under it."
Pillsbury first called the police November 12, the night after a bad fight, and called again later that month. "He was supposed to spend Thanksgiving with me and didn't," she recalls. "I questioned him when he got home and he beat me up. I was cowering in the corner. He was screaming. He said, 'Get out, bitch,' and he left, and I called the police. He came back and beat me up again. When the police arrived, I was shaking and crying and very upset. He was very calm. A lady officer walked in and asked me if I was on drugs. John told me that none of the charges would stick."
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