“WE DIDN’T KNOW WHO HE REALLY WAS” Former colleagues speak out as one hidden detail sends the Alex Pretti investigation down a radically different path!

For years, Alex Pretti blended into the background of hospital life — punctual, reserved, and outwardly professional. He was the kind of employee few people noticed and even fewer questioned. But as investigators dig deeper into his past, former colleagues are now coming forward with accounts that paint a far more troubling picture, one that suggests the warning signs were present long before authorities ever took notice.

Several coworkers describe a man who appeared calm on the surface but carried an undercurrent of volatility. “He wasn’t loud all the time,” one former colleague said. “That’s what made it worse. When he snapped, it was sudden. And it was frightening.”

Others recalled moments when Alex’s demeanor would shift without warning — his jaw tightening, his tone turning sharp, his patience evaporating in seconds. “You’d be talking to him normally, and then suddenly you felt like you’d crossed some invisible line,” another coworker explained. “No one ever knew where that line was.”

A FIXATION THAT NEVER FADED

According to multiple staff members, conversations about Alex’s personal life were dominated by bitterness toward his ex-wife. He spoke of her not as a former partner, they say, but as someone who had “wronged” him in a way he could not accept or move past.

“He never talked about healing or moving on,” one colleague recalled. “He talked about control. About how she shouldn’t have been allowed to leave. Like her decision wasn’t hers to make.”

Several coworkers said Alex repeatedly framed himself as the victim, portraying his ex-wife as disloyal or manipulative, while ignoring any responsibility for the breakdown of the marriage. “It was always about what she did to him,” another staff member said. “Never what he might have done to her.”

WHEN PRIVATE FEAR BECAME A WORKPLACE WARNING

More alarming were the incidents that spilled directly into the workplace. Several employees confirmed that the hospital received distressed phone calls from Alex’s ex-wife, during which she pleaded with staff not to connect her to him.

In at least one instance, colleagues said she sounded terrified, repeatedly asking whether Alex was present in the building and which shift he was working that day. “She wasn’t angry,” one staff member said. “She was scared. That’s what stuck with me.”

Those calls, coworkers now say, should have been a turning point. Instead, they were quietly absorbed into the daily chaos of hospital life — noted, whispered about, and then set aside.

A STEADY UNRAVELING

After those calls began, Alex’s behavior reportedly deteriorated. He missed shifts without explanation. He isolated himself from coworkers who had once tried to check in on him. And his temper, staff members say, became increasingly difficult to manage.

“We started realizing this wasn’t just stress or burnout,” one colleague admitted. “This was something darker. Something personal that was spilling over into everything else.”

Some coworkers say they informally warned supervisors that Alex seemed unstable, but no formal intervention ever followed. “Looking back,” one person said, “it feels like everyone assumed someone else would handle it.”

THE DISAPPEARANCE NO ONE QUESTIONED

Then, without warning, Alex quietly walked away from his job — no resignation meeting, no official notice, no goodbye. His badge stopped working. His locker remained untouched.

At the time, coworkers assumed he was dealing with personal issues and chose not to push for answers. What they didn’t know was that his departure coincided with a development investigators would later describe as critical.

THE MESSAGE HE NEVER MEANT TO SEND

According to law enforcement sources, when police later recovered data from Alex’s phone, they uncovered a previously deleted draft message — never sent, but automatically saved by the device.

In it, Alex allegedly outlined a plan to “take back control,” referencing his ex-wife by name. The draft included dates, locations, and notes investigators believe resembled surveillance-style observations — times, movements, and patterns that suggested monitoring rather than coincidence.

That single discovery changed the direction of the investigation entirely.

Until then, authorities had focused primarily on Alex’s recent activities and his outside associations, exploring whether his actions represented a sudden shift or external influence. The recovered draft forced investigators to reframe the case — not as a break from the past, but as the culmination of a long pattern of fixation, control, and escalation rooted in his private life.

“EVERYTHING CLICKED”

Former colleagues say the revelation confirmed what many of them had only feared in hindsight. “When we heard about that message,” one coworker said quietly, “everything clicked. The anger. The obsession. The calls. We just didn’t know how serious it really was.”

Others expressed regret that what now appears obvious was once dismissed as uncomfortable but manageable behavior. “We normalized things that shouldn’t have been normalized,” another colleague admitted. “That’s hard to live with.”

A CASE REEXAMINED

Police have not publicly released the full contents of the recovered data, nor have they confirmed whether charges related to domestic abuse are forthcoming. However, sources close to the investigation say Alex’s past behavior toward his ex-wife is now central, not peripheral, to understanding what unfolded.

What once appeared to be a man who abruptly unraveled is now being examined as someone who left behind a trail of ignored warnings — warnings voiced by colleagues, hinted at in private conversations, and ultimately preserved in a message he never meant anyone to see.

As the investigation continues, one question grows louder and harder to ignore:

If those early signs had been taken seriously, would events have unfolded differently — or was this outcome already in motion long before anyone was watching?