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Emily DeMarco

I was born in California but raised in Arizona. I had Sarah when I was 20 then moved to Missouri to be with my mom at the age of 21. I then moved to Kansas and started working at the prison in 2020. I currently have a 6 year old daughter who will 7 in Feb. of 2025. I am definitely a dessert freak (his words), true crime addict and probably one of the nosiest people ever! You can usually catch me out shopping (wishing I had his credit card), my nose in a true crime book, making a new dessert to try or watching movies with my family.

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Witnessing Weinkauf

Our story begins on a warm summer day, on the inside of a barbwire filled fence around 2:00PM. Yep, that’s right we met in a prison! Now, I know what you’re thinking ‘wow she can’t be that crazy’ ‘she was in prison, a hardened criminal!’. Well, let this sink in; we both worked at the prison! (This is our favorite way to tell strangers how we met. It really gets them going, lol) Our love story began in early December of 2021. We got to know each other by working together almost every night on the over night shift at work. Emily was working 16hrs shifts and Josh was just trying to get home and not be forced to work to the next shift. After we got to know one another we were inseparable. Always on the phone talking or texting each other, losing sleep just to make sure we could tell each other to have good day at the start of our shifts at work.

Witnessing Weinkauf

From the moment we started talking Emily knew she had found the one she wanted to spend the rest of her life with. (Josh realized two and half years later when he proposed.) Josh realized just a few days later. We dated for about six months then moved in with each other. Josh became a vital part of Emily and Sarah’s everyday life extremely fast, so moving in with each other was a no brainer. For the past two years they have been on many small adventures. After dating for just a few months they traveled to Arizona together. Josh and Emily have planned many weekend trips to Kansas City either to celebrate a birthday or simply to celebrate each other. A few of their favorite activities have been a gondola boat ride,the Gordon Ramsey steak house, Josh proposing!!

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Josh proposed to Emily in April. He took her to Kansas City for the weekend to celebrate her birthday. He reserved one of the most intimate, fancy hotels in Kansas City, planned an extremely nice dinner. Then when they returned to the hotel room after dinner Josh called Emily up to the third floor of this massive hotel room and told her he wanted to take picture together. Instead he took a video and reached behind him into a fake tree and pulled out the most beautiful engagement ring! Obviously Emily said yes!! (She may have ugly cried a little) Something most people may not know about the ring is that the center diamond is Josh’s grandmothers diamond from her ring. Emily is so honored to be the woman to wear this diamond for the rest of her life with Josh. To the rest of lives together…..

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Josh Weinkauf

I was born and raised in Topeka, KS my whole life. Die hard Chiefs fan (had those season tickets for Super Bowl 54!!) You can always catch me either at the gym, at home watching movies or playing video games or getting fancy with love of my life for a night out on the town. If you see me with a drink it will most likely be a Bud Light (wishing it was a Blvd Wheat or Blue Moon) because water is lame.

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