After moving back into her mother's house, Katie noticed a man sitting on a fence outside her bedroom window. Over the next few nights she noticed her dog's water bowl was tipped over, her dog limping, and 8:48 was written on a backyard play-set - which was the exact time she arrived home the night before. Katie and her mother replaced the fence, got rid of the play-set, and installed cameras and lights around the house. After a neighbor confronted someone trying to break into Katie and her moth...
Aug 03, 2021•49 min•Ep. 275
Teri was stalked by the ex-wife of her fiancé. After Teri began dating her now-fiancé, his ex-wife began targeting her with a series of vulgar and abusive Facebook messages. She told her that everyone hates her, that she is "temporary," and after Teri blocked her, she used her son's social media accounts to harass her. Her stalking escalated and she accosted Teri at one of her child's school functions. After she showed up at Teri's house yelling and banging on her door Teri filed a Harassment Re...
Jul 27, 2021•56 min•Ep. 297
Kim is an adult webcam model who has been the target of an online stalker for years. After she received threatening and abusive messages from a viewer, she blocked him. Then he created fake screen names to get access to her shows and troll her. She eventually received an email saying she should stop webcamming immediately or she would be doxxed. Her stalker sent her mother, her mother's employer, and Kim's new employer pictures, links to her webcams, and a note telling that Kim's mother raised a...
Jul 20, 2021•59 min•Ep. 295
**The following episode of Strictly Stalking contains topics including sexual abuse of a minor, child pornography, and suicide. Listener discretion is advised.** Shannon was fifteen years old when she met her stalker. After being diagnosed with a rare eye disease rendering her legally blind, Shannon began dating an older guy, who grew jealous of her friends and started isolating her. Once she discovered his obsession with porn, he started following her around with a camera encouraging her to per...
Jul 13, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 272
**The following episode of Strictly Stalking contains topics including domestic violence and suicide. Listener discretion is advised.** Kathy was stalked by her ex-husband for over ten years. Kathy's husband tapped her phone, reprogrammed her computers and cameras, and threatened to put a tracker on her. She eventually left him...but even after a judge granted her exclusive possession of their house, her stalker continued to break in. After being physically attacked by her stalker, Kathy attempt...
Jul 06, 2021•58 min•Ep. 295
Victoria was a freshman in high school when she started receiving creepy phone calls from an anonymous deep-voiced man. She thought they were prank calls until they became more sinister, with the caller saying he was going to "take" her and that he had already "touched" her. One night he called her and described the exact pajamas she was wearing at that moment. After he attempted to break in to her house, her friend urged her to tell her parents, who turned to the police. When a man chased her d...
Jun 29, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 303
Brooke is a YouTuber whose video about her stalking experience recently went viral. After Brooke broke up with her first boyfriend, he immediately began stalking her. He called and texted her nonstop, and even told her that he didn't want to live anymore if she wasn't with him. She blocked him on everything...but he called her from other numbers, attended a concert where he knew she would be to track her down, and even showed up at her dad's work to try and forge a relationship with him. He even...
Jun 22, 2021•56 min•Ep. 301
Robert Courtney was an upstanding Kansas City pharmacist and family man who was deeply devoted to his church. Courtney owned and operated two pharmacies and was perceived as an innovative businessman. His wealth was apparent to people in Kansas City in the 90's- he lived in a $700,000 home and collected sports cars. It all came crashing down in 2001 when an oncologist discovered that Courtney had been diluting chemotherapy medications. She tipped off the FBI and the Courtney investigation became...
Jun 15, 2021•7 min•Ep. 266
Olivia grew up in a large family affected by mental illness, suicide, alcoholism and drug addiction. After Olivia's older sister was released from a mental institution for exhibiting criminal behavior, she became obsessed with her. She emailed Olivia's acquaintances and other family members claiming that Olivia lied, stole, cheated, and was abusive. She repeatedly drove by Olivia's house, leaving notes in her mailbox threatening to reveal dark family secrets, and later became the prime suspect f...
Jun 15, 2021•44 min•Ep. 310
Jessica and her family started experiencing unexplained occurrences around her home: knocking on windows in the middle of the night, random objects left in their backyard, and their dogs being let out of the gate. She discovered an older man from her neighborhood was responsible for this bizarre behavior. Jessica turned to law enforcement officials but most were dismissive; some even defended her stalker. She was eventually granted a trespass warning against her stalker-which only intensified hi...
Jun 08, 2021•54 min•Ep. 283
**The following episode of Strictly Stalking contains descriptions of sexual assault. Listener discretion is advised.** While working out at the gym, Jordyn noticed an attractive man watching her. He eventually asked her out, but after the first date Jordyn wasn't interested. But the next day he offered to help her with her upcoming move and she agreed. That day he attempted to sexually assault her multiple times...and prevented her from leaving - then told her that they were in a relationship a...
Jun 01, 2021•46 min•Ep. 281
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 live event and her story went viral. After sharing her story she met Elise who she learned was stal...
May 25, 2021•53 min•Ep. 294
**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 to bring home another girl, telling her not to come home if she didn't. He became abusive, calling her ...
May 18, 2021•54 min•Ep. 315
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-husband for comfort and support...but after she went to the police their investigation uncovered the distu...
May 11, 2021•57 min•Ep. 292
**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 she was pregnant with his child...he attempted to run her over with her own car. After multiple atte...
May 04, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 288
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 hers, dressing like her, and mirroring her style and poses in Instagram photos. She began stalking Man...
Apr 27, 2021•55 min•Ep. 314
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 Stephanie's Facebook business account. After Stephanie announced a festival she was planning on social me...
Apr 20, 2021•55 min•Ep. 300
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 scene by insulting the other performers. After being banned from the venues, he tried to break into the ...
Apr 13, 2021•58 min•Ep. 292
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. He immediately became possessive, repeatedly calling her throughout the day, leaving her bizarre an...
Apr 06, 2021•48 min•Ep. 300
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 letters. Tracey's stalker was arrested multiple times but continued to stalk her by planting listening de...
Mar 30, 2021•59 min•Ep. 317
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 containing all of these images of my favorite beauty vendor." Maggie ignored his request and while she wa...
Mar 23, 2021•53 min•Ep. 270
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 her dorm and missed classes and meals before she turned to her therapist who told her "you're not par...
Mar 16, 2021•43 min•Ep. 291
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 Jessica was messing around with random college guys and putting herself in unsafe situations. In order ...
Mar 09, 2021•57 min•Ep. 295
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 safety and security. Diane discusses the daily trauma she faces and how she's working to rebuild ...
Mar 02, 2021•57 min•Ep. 310
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 best friend and stalked her so relentlessly that she took her own life. Then Dianne's stalker blamed Di...
Feb 23, 2021•54 min•Ep. 291
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 that's now utilized in both the United States and abroad. He was awarded "Detective of the Year" thre...
Feb 16, 2021•56 min•Ep. 288
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 emotional support. Her stalker was the last person she would've ever expected. Ann became an anti-st...
Feb 09, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 298
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 continued to threaten her life and held her captive for two days, attacking her with weapons, choking her...
Feb 02, 2021•53 min•Ep. 313
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 daughter moved over one-thousand miles away but he still followed her, so she hit the road in a semi...
Jan 26, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 296
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 asking to move in together and he turned her down. He was then stalked for over four years by someone h...
Jan 19, 2021•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 318