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10:57 a.m. It is a major news day - the Iowa caucuses and the start of the presidential race.
Time to hack into Alycia Lane's e-mails from your Chestnut Hill home.
12:05 p.m. Check them again.
1:13 p.m. And once more before heading to CBS3.
Almost 41/2 hours pass. There's a newscast to prepare for, a newscast you no longer anchor with Lane - she's on leave, about to be fired for her misadventures with New York police.
Some of the stories you are following are a new link between low-fat milk and prostate cancer, a major project on two South Jersey roads, and the Philadelphia police union's objections to the mayor-elect's choice of a public-safety czar.
5:35 p.m. Read her e-mail.
7:50 p.m. Again.
9:06 p.m. And again.
Major news is breaking - Barack Obama has won his first presidential contest.
12:34 a.m. Check her mail from home.
12:35 a.m. Again.
3:11 a.m. And again.
I'm just wondering - did he stay up until 3 to read her mail? Or did the thought of her wake him in the middle of the night?
At least he wasn't tapping her mail during the newscast - which he did the night before, at 6:23 p.m.
Clearly, this looks like a man with too little to do.
A psychotherapist I know, Jane Shure, said Mendte seemed to display a classic narcissism. "Apparently he was obsessed with finding something about her that he could use and manipulate to create a story and use it to get her out of the limelight in order that he move into the limelight."
Lane's lawyer contends Mendte was plotting against his younger, better-paid former colleague. Shure said he seems to be someone who "can't deal with disappointment and rejection and not having his way. There's a sense of narcissistic entitlement that holds the view that 'whatever I want, I should get, and whatever it takes to get it, oh, well.' "
So many questions remain. What was it between them, if anything, that made him so frenzied? Was Lane as girl-gone-wild as she was made to look? And how did this guy get any work done?
They say he peeped from home. He peeped from work. He peeped from Ocean City. He peeped from the Union League.
Who knows what he found, other than the infamous bikini shots Lane sent to Rich Eisen, the NFL Network anchor. The photographs arrived at an e-mail address Eisen shared with his wife, the ABC Sports reporter Suzy Shuster.
Someone forwarded Shuster's flaming response to the media. It read in part: "Boy, do you look amazing in a bikini . . . congrats! Whatever you're doing, (Pilates? yoga?) keep doing it - it's working for you."
Four weeks later, Mendte still had copies of those pictures on the computer in the home he shares with his wife, Fox29 coanchor Dawn Stensland.
So now I'm obsessed. What was it, professional jealousy? Too much celebrity for being a good presenter? Too much free time, too much money? Lane made about $780,000 a year while Mendte made closer to $700,000.
I have the feeling Lane's real payday hasn't come yet.
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