This is a letter that was sent by MOVE to the Gilbride family in August of 1999. I'm primarily posting these documents here so that they're preserved for future researchers of MOVE. If the Gilbride family hadn't saved these documents and passed them along to the team at the Murder at Ruan's Run podcast then they would have been lost and would not be part of the historical record. There are many documents like this from the '70s and '80s that are not widely available and this has allowed researchers of MOVE to largely ignore the elements of MOVE which involve cult control, terroristic threats, and intimidation. One of the missions of this blog is to make documents such as this public, and after the events of the custody case have been covered we will begin posting MOVE documents from the '70s and '80s that were previously unavailable outside of the inner circle of MOVE members.
In this letter, it's notable that the author of the letter (the handwriting appears to be Ria's) acts as if they are writing the letter to protect Alberta, and that Alberta is actually more sensitive and softer, and more forgiving than other MOVE members. This is a recurring pattern throughout MOVE. Up until recently, Alberta controlled nearly everything, with Ria as her second in command, but Alberta often had others pretend that they were actually the force behind the strategy. Alberta and Ria brilliantly play good cop/bad cop with Ria pretending to be the enforcer and Alberta pretending to be more reasonable. Reading through this document over 20 years later it's shocking to see how much Alberta was projecting her own compulsions as a controlling and abusive parent onto the Gilbride family.
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