Strictly Stalking

Lifestyle bloggers Lauryn and Elise were stalked by the same man. Lauren received disturbing messages on social media and then turned the tables on her perpetrator and hacked into his email. When she turned to the police they told her there's nothing they could do and said, "what did you expect when you have a public profile online?" Undeterred, she spoke out publicity about her stalking case at a...

**The following episode of Strictly Stalking contains descriptions of domestic violence and  sexual assault. Listener discretion is advised.** At the end of her senior year of high school, Robin was swept off her feet by her cousin's best friend.  He began love bombing her with candy, flowers, and gifts...and shortly thereafter, he proposed. Six months into their marriage he began pressuring her t...

After ending her second marriage Courtney noticed a series of strange occurrences around her home...noises on her roof, missing articles of clothing, jewelry, lingerie...and eventually she found crushed beer cans and cigarette packs outside her house that she couldn't explain. After her tires were slashed twice within a week, she received a threatening card in the mail.  She turned to her ex-husba...

**The following episode of Strictly Stalking contains topics including abortion and domestic abuse. Listener discretion is advised.** At eighteen, Rebecca began secretly dating her uncle's best friend who was fourteen years older. He became possessive and controlling, limiting her time with family and friends, monitoring her activity on social media, and looking through her phone. When he learned...

Mandy Lynn discovered her husband was cheating on her with a much younger woman and left him. When she moved out her husband showed up to her new apartment, trapped her inside, and assaulted her for hours. After he was arrested, Mandy Lynn was granted a protective order against him, and then his new girlfriend attempted to imitate details of Mandy Lynn's life - buying an identical motorcycle to he...

Stephanie is a singer, actor, and Marilyn Monroe impersonator. While performing at a birthday party, Stephanie was approached by an 80-year-old woman who asked for her contact information in order to send her a thank you gift. The woman then began calling and emailing Stephanie constantly, vying for her attention. Once Stephanie blocked her phone number she sent sexually explicit messages to Steph...

Biddy is a comedian who was stalked by an obsessed student from her improv school. After seeing Biddy perform a live comedy show, a clubgoer became convinced that they were destined to be together through "signals" she was sending him. When he enrolled in the same school she attended he was expelled after he showed up to class on drugs. Then he began showing up to her shows drunk and caused a scen...

Victoria was stalked by the best friend of her son's father. Victoria survived a tumultuous childhood of her own, and then became pregnant at nineteen. After she discovered the father of her son was cheating on her, she left him and eventually began dating his best friend. Terrified that Victoria was going to leave him, he poked holes in their condoms to try and get her pregnant so she would stay....

Tracey Morgan was terrorized by a violent criminal for almost three decades. After Tracey befriended a lonely male coworker, personal items began disappearing around her house. She discovered that he had gained access to her house and was routinely following her home from work. When Tracey tried to distance herself from him, he poured oil over her car, vandalized her home and sent disturbing lette...

Maggie is a beauty influencer who was terrorized by a perverted Cyberstalker. After she launched her online beauty business, Maggie received sexually explicit messages and images of her face altered in pornographic ways.  Her anonymous stalker tried to cut a deal with her stating, "I'll stop doing this if you just send me pictures of you naked. But if you don't send them I will make a website cont...

At 16, Rose dated a co-worker who told her what she could wear, who she could see, and what kind of language she was allowed to use. Convinced that Rose would cheat on him, he abandoned an Ivy League education and enrolled at the college she was attending. After they broke up he had his friends follow Rose and report her activities back to him. Rose became so frightened that she refused to leave h...

Jessica was stalked by an ex-boyfriend who tried desperately to win her back. After dating him for only three weeks Jessica discovered he was looking for engagement rings online. He told her she was "the one," but when Jessica didn't reciprocate his feelings he became obsessive and controlling, calling and texting her relentlessly. He then reached out to Jessica's mother and convinced her that Jes...

Diane Neal is an actor best known for her role on Law & Order: SVU but now she's living a real life nightmare at the hands of a stalker. After Diane realized her boyfriend was lying to her and trying to control her, she left him. Diane reveals he spent the next several years stalking her by damaging her relationships with family and friends, disrupting her career, and stripping away her sense of s...

Dianne McDonald was stalked by a man who drove her friend to suicide. After she ended a short relationship she found out her ex secretly made a duplicate set of her house keys, installed a location tracker on her phone, and followed her. His stalking continued for years as he posted demeaning flyers about Dianne around town, and vandalized her car and house. He turned his attention to Dianne's bes...

Detective Mike Proctor (Ret.), is considered a pioneer in the investigation of stalking.  Now he's sharing details from some of the hundreds of stalking cases he's investigated over his 33-year career.  As a member of the Westminster Police Department located in Orange County, California, Detective Proctor (Ret.) began investigating stalking crimes in 1991 eventually developing a stalking protocol...

Ann Moulds was anonymously stalked by the man she confided in about her stalker. On Valentine's Day, Ann received an obscene handwritten card followed by vulgar letters with sexually explicit images of a man dressed up in women's underwear and dozens of silent phone calls. Unable to get any significant support from the police, Ann turned to a casual acquaintance who offered her his protection and...

Anna was violently attacked and held captive by her stalker. After Anna refused romantic advances from a friend he told people she was his girlfriend and stole nude photos from her phone to blackmail her. Later he held Anna captive in his car, held pliers to her face, and said, "I'm going to rip out your teeth and fingernails and you will be found cut up in a box on the side of the road." He conti...

Helena Jayne Bryant became a big rig truck driver to escape her stalker of thirteen years.  After having a brief fling, Helena immediately began getting strange calls, notes on her car, and items left on her back porch when she wasn't home. She discovered that this man broke into her house while she and her daughter were sleeping and secretly planted a recording device in her bathroom. She and her...

Dave Kroupa was stalked for over four years by a woman who was impersonating his ex to cover up her murder. While single, Dave began casually dating several women at the same time making it clear that he wasn't looking for anything serious. One of those women was Shanna "Liz" Golyar whom he dated for a few months before he met and dated Cari Farver.  After two weeks with Cari he received a text as...

Debbie Riddle is an Anti-Stalking Advocate whose sister Peggy Klinke was stalked and murdered by her ex-boyfriend. After Peggy's death, Debbie refused to remain silent about the extreme failures in our criminal justice system and set out on a mission to get the system fixed and began telling Peggy's story to anyone that would listen. She caught the attention of Tracy Bahm, the Director of the Stal...

Rachel was stalked by a handyman she hired to work on her house.  After she fired him over poor workmanship, he sent her threatening texts, shot her dog, and threw acid on her car. Concerned for the safety and security of herself and her family, Rachel turned to Premier Group International, a security and private investigation company. Joseph Dalu and Brianna Morgan from Premier Group Internationa...

Kimberly and her daughter Jasmin are being stalked by a dangerous fugitive with a national warrant for his arrest. Kimberly received disturbing phone calls from an unknown man who threatened to rape her daughter and granddaughter and then sent her child pornography. She uncovered his identity and took him to court where he currently faces charges including stalking, possession of explicit material...

Jenifer was stalked by a former student who developed a disturbing romantic and spiritual obsession over her. While teaching one of her college world religion classes, Jenifer noticed one student who stared at her in a "day-dreamy way".  Around Valentine's Day, she gave Jenifer a cd mixtape of various religious songs, followed by a box of homemade fudge and a romantically worded handwritten card. ...

Patrick Tomlinson is being gang stalked by a group of cyberstalkers. After he tweeted a comment about finding a well-known comedian "unfunny", Patrick became the target of a gang of cyberstalkers who's publicly stated goal was to drive him to suicide. Patrick reveals that this group created a multitude of impersonation social media accounts designed to publicly defame and humiliate him while they...

Natasha was stalked by her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend. After Natasha broke up with her high schoolboyfriend, his new girlfriend began harassing her online and reached out to people Natasha dated to make false accusations against her.  Her stalker's obsession took a bizarre turn when she started imitating Natasha's lifestyle by trying to look like her, copied her business, and even named her cat...