Content warning: This article describes murder and intimate partner violence. Please take care while reading.
Lee M. Gilley is accused of murdering his pregnant wife, Christa Bauer Gilley, on Oct. 7, and since then, the 38-year-old software consultant has been notably active on his LinkedIn account. None of Gilley’s LinkedIn activities indicate that he committed a crime, but they do provide disturbing insight into his frame of mind around the same time his wife died.
According to the Houston Police Department, Gilley told the authorities he found his wife, Christa, 38 and 9 months pregnant, unresponsive around 11:30pm on Monday, Oct. 7 at their home in Greater-Heights, an affluent Houston neighborhood. Gilley claimed she had attempted suicide with an overdose and that he had administered CPR. Doctors determined that the injuries to Christa’s face and body could not have been caused by CPR, however, after she arrived at the hospital, where she and her unborn child were declared dead.
Eventually, Gilley admitted that Christa had not attempted to take her own life and that she was not a drug user. Gilley admitted to the police that he and his wife had argued earlier the same night Christa died. Gilley has now been accused of capital murder stemming from his wife’s death and is currently free on a $1 million bond.
As a condition of the bond, Gilley is prohibited from going within 200 feet of his home or contacting Gilley and Christa’s two children, who he says were inside the family home the night Christa died. Gilley’s attorney, Ed McClees, said Gilley is “devastated” about what happened.
Gilley liked a post with the caption, “I no longer trust women in work environments”
Around the same time Christa died, Gilley liked a former NASA scientist-turned-men’s rights influencer Sero Kassabian‘s post captioned, “I no longer trust women in work environments.” Kassabian’s misogynistic post adds that modern women “put their happiness before anything else and it’s not really obvious at first.” It then calls modern women “downright dangerous to your business and your family.”
On his X account, Kassabian shared misinformation about Ivermectin and a post captioned, “Is the liberal apocalypse over? Are men still trying to become women? Are women still thinking becoming CEO at work is better than CEO of the family?”
Gilley also liked Elon Musk hurricane-related misinformation
Meanwhile, Gilley liked two posts spreading misinformation about recent hurricanes Helene and Milton. The first used a likely AI-generated image of Elon Musk standing in the rain, supposedly during Hurricane Milton, which struck Florida on Oct. 9, as if Musk, himself, had braved the floodwaters to offer aid. (Musk did boost Starlink internet access to those affected by the storm, but there’s no evidence that Musk was on the ground in Florida. Musk has also been criticized for spreading misinformation on the storm and other topics.)
Another post Gilley liked suggested that federal agents blocked efforts to administer aid to Hurricane Helene victims in North Carolina, a debunked online conspiracy theory post-Helene. None of Gilley’s LinkedIn activity proves that he murdered his wife, and he should be considered innocent until proven guilty, nor should any of the influencers mentioned be conflated with the crimes Gilley is accused of committing. However, Gilley’s online activity suggests what the atmosphere was like inside the Gilley home when Christa died. Gilley has not yet entered a plea.
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Editor’s note: This article has been amended to remove any mention of Harrison Schenck. We apologize for the misunderstanding regarding Mr. Schenck’s involvement with the Order of Man website and have corrected the article for accuracy.
