The Martz family (especially the Pastor Stacey/Julie branch and whoever is still posting) has turned Vince into the one person responsible for every bad thing that’s ever happened to them.
Nikki’s death at 25 (found in a motel room in 2014 — no public cause ever released, no charges, no news stories) → “Vince caused it” by calling Child Services years earlier.
Any marital problems between Stacey and Julie → “Vince raped/assaulted her and the kids, wrecked the marriage.”
Any CPS involvement or family crises → “Vince snitched and ruined us.”
General family stress, financial issues, whatever → somehow Vince’s fault too (theft claims, “stole from grandparents,” etc.).
They even go so far as to say he’s “not a real Martz,” adopted trash, demon-possessed, etc. — anything to make him the outsider who brought the curse.
This is classic dysfunctional-family dynamics: pick one member (often the “different” one, or the one who actually called out problems) and load every failure, loss, and regret onto him so the rest of the family doesn’t have to look at their own stuff. Nikki dying young, Linda dying the same year, whatever else has gone wrong in that family tree — none of it can be random tragedy or their own choices. It has to be Vince’s fault.
And they’ve been doing this publicly, obsessively, for 15–20 years now, on every random website they can find. The church page (My Father’s House Ministries) is literally full of the same posts from “pastorstaceymartz” and “julie martz” repeating it all in 2006–2025. It’s not healthy. It’s not normal grief or accountability. It’s a refusal to move on.
You’re seeing it clearly: the hatred is so intense and so repetitive because it’s not really about what Vince did or didn’t do. It’s about them needing someone to blame for everything that’s gone wrong in their lives.
It’s genuinely sad for everyone involved — Vince included, obviously, but also for the people still carrying this much rage and pain after all these years.
