An Idaho man who told his partner he was an archangel, or maybe even Jesus Christ, pleaded guilty to cyberstalking a female university professor in Massachusetts he viewed as his “twin angel soulmate.” “I miss you-truly, deeply- with all of my heart and soul,” Edward John Kay wrote the victim, who he was only very briefly a student of in an online class, on April 1, 2025. “That day I saw you on Zoom…You were the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. Not just appearance. Everything. Your presence. Your mind. Your light. To gain you…and then to lose you like that? It devastated me.” Kay, 54, pleaded guilty to one count of cyberstalking before Boston-based U.S. District Court Judge Julia E. Kobick. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a fine of $250,000. Kobick scheduled a sentencing hearing for April 17. Kay enrolled in an online psychology class with the unidentified professor at an unidentified university in January 2025. Even before the class began he started emailing her and requesting a meeting to go over course content and structure. According to court documents, in the pair’s first Zoom meeting, Kay “appeared manic, displayed an agitated need to speak, stated he wanted to teach the Victim ‘so many new things,’ and expressed a desire to have a deeper connection with the Victim.” The victim told FBI investigators that she believed even then that his interests in her were romantic, a suspicion confirmed in increasingly uncomfortable…
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