commentary by Patrick H. Moore
When running the gauntlet of true crime stories, we often come across cases that are truly hard to handle. The case of the Colorado woman who inadvertently cooked her two toddler children by leaving them in her SUV with the heater on while she and boyfriend dallied amorously in his vehicle is a prime example of a truly sad and tragic case. It is also a good example of how sex can get you in trouble if you don’t do it right.
Now the spectrum of what constitutes doing it right is of course very broad, but as we’ve learned during our long slog through the bowels of crime, there are plenty of ways to not do it right.
While on the job last week, Tim Margis, 38, of 13910 S. King Road, Homer Glen, Illinois, who just happened to be the Public Safety Director at Concordia University, a Lutheran liberal arts school not far from Chicago, chose an innovative and amusing way to not do it right when he allegedly had the audacity and bad sense to sneak into a fellow female employee’s office and masturbate directly into one of her shoes.
(It is not known why the shoe owner left her footwear unattended in her office, but without being unduly tough on her, she certainly should have known better than to leave such a titillating and tantalizing sexual target unattended in an unoccupied room. Talk about asking for trouble!)
This information comes to us courtesy of Deputy Police Chief Jim O’Shea of the River Forest Police Department who states that Mr. Margis is accused ejaculating into a shoe belonging to a female Concordia employee on the night of Feb. 10, 2014.
Although one cannot be sure if our courageous masturbator planned it this way, according to the police, he had barely completed his pleasurable foray into the realm of fetishism, and was still BUTTONING UP HIS PANTS when the female victim reportedly spotted him furtively leaving her office at around 9:30 p.m. while buttoning up and fastening his belt. Concerned, the woman confronted Margis and demanded to know what he had been doing in her office.
Margis grinned broadly and told her that he’d just experienced the finest orgasm of his entire life and that if she was curious, she should go into her office and check out the evidence. NOT! Actually, according to the allegations, Margis allegedly stated that he was checking the room because the door had been left open. Margis apparently then sidled away from the crime scene.
According to Deputy Chief James O’Shea, our wronged party was suspicious. She entered her office and – no doubt to her horror — discovered a “clear liquid” inside one of her shoes. She was on the horn in a hot second, reporting this unnatural act to the authorities.
Two days later, detectives went to Margis’ house for a little heart-to-heart. It is unknown whether the police had to lean on him, but he allegedly did ultimately admit to entering the office and committing a lewd act there, police said.
Margis has been charged with public indecency and disorderly conduct, which are both misdemeanors.
Deputy Chief O’Shea has avowed that there was no relationship between Margis and the victim. Fortunately for the now former Public Safety Director, the authorities have received no other allegations against him.
The police have chosen to not disclose whether the wronged employee is a professor at the university or a staff member like Margis formerly was.
Eric Matanyi, a spokesman for Concordia University Chicago, said the school learned of Margis’ arrest as soon as it was reported by police on Feb. 12th. He stated:
“At that point the employee was suspended and banned immediately from campus. We cooperated fully with the investigation and he was terminated on Feb. 13 for misconduct, less than 24 hours later.”
It was not immediately known how long Margis had worked for the university.
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Sexually speaking, Margis’s action makes him a fetishist, which if I’m not mistaken, is generally when an individual experiences sexual gratification through intimate contact with an object belonging to or associated with a person. It is technically a form of deviancy, and although there is not a scrap of evidence that Margis shows signs or has the potential to graduate to serious sexual crime, it is a fact that serial killers and rapists are often fetishists. For example, collecting body parts in the manner of Jeffrey Dahmer or Ed Gein, or even collecting the garments of targeted individuals is an activity often associated with these fiends.
Therefore, despite the fact that when viewed superficially, Margis’s fall from grace seems more comical than diabolical, the sentencing judge in this matter, assuming the charges are valid, will no doubt insist that the former Public Safety Director undergo a through psychological assessment in order to rule out the possibility that this is just the tip of the iceberg and that this man may pose a serious threat to public safety.