Renee met her stalker during her Sophomore year in college. They were acquaintances, and she mentioned the vacant apartment across from hers. So he moved in immediately, and she often found him staring at her intensely. He also changed his class schedule to match hers, knocked on her door constantly, yelled outside her door when he knew she was home, and followed her when she left her apartment. One night Renee called campus security when he wouldn't leave her alone, but they said they couldn't ...
Apr 11, 2023•49 min•Ep. 169
Sarah was stalked by a woman she met through social media. A follower commented on Sarah's Facebook post asking to meet, and because she was female, Sarah didn't see any red flags. They became friends, but things quickly turned toxic and escalated when she tried to poison Sarah and sabotage her new music tour. When she was confronted, her friend blocked Sarah and posted lies about her on social media. Sarah went no contact for a year, but her stalker continuously messaged her asking for forgiven...
Apr 04, 2023•52 min•Ep. 168
Melody is a single mom who met her stalker on an online dating site. After quickly starting a relationship, she noticed red flags like love bombing, control issues, and jealousy. They moved in together, and Melody discovered he knew details of her private phone conversations and where she went throughout the day. He accused Melody of cheating, showed up at her job, and the relationship became toxic and abusive. Melody tried to kick him out of her house, but he threatened her and wouldn't leave. ...
Mar 28, 2023•49 min•Ep. 167
Nina Hobson is a former UK police detective who became the target of a man she had arrested for stalking another victim. After his arrest, he turned his obsession to Nina, sending letters of his fantasies to murder her. Nina left the police force in the early 2000s after she became part of the investigative series, Dispatches: Undercover Copper, where she exposed sexism, apathy, and neglect in the police force. She now runs one of the only female-led investigative firms in the US, and hosts her ...
Mar 21, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 166
Melanie was stalked by a man she met in a Facebook group for foragers and mushroom hunters. They chatted and video-called for a year before meeting in person. After the meeting, Melanie saw red flags and ended things. But he wouldn't take no for an answer and showed up at her job, her house, stole her keys, and even kidnapped her. Melanie called the police multiple times, but even after he was arrested and charged with stalking, he continued to break the restraining order. PODCAST LINKS: Podcast...
Mar 14, 2023•41 min•Ep. 165
Amber and Athena were stalked by the same man – their ex-husband. Both women separately met and married a man who lied about who he was and then stalked them when they left him. Athena met and married the man first, and when the relationship turned toxic, she left him, but he continued to stalk her even after he met his new wife, Amber. When Amber discovered he was not who she thought he was, she also left him and was stalked. Athena and Amber became friends and teamed up to fight back, and they...
Mar 07, 2023•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 164
Jerry was stalked by a woman he met during an acting class. They were casual friends, but the woman started texting him non-stop and showing up at events where his band was playing. He cut ties with her because she made him uncomfortable, but she was aggressive, impatient, and angry when he didn't respond to her texts. After thousands of texts, calls, letters, and voicemails, Jerry quit attending the acting class and isolated himself to avoid her. While Jerry barely knows his stalker, according ...
Feb 28, 2023•45 min•Ep. 163
Maggie was stalked by an older man she met on a dating app. After they began dating, Maggie discovered his anger issues and controlling behavior. When they broke up, he sent texts, followed her, and sent unwanted gifts. Maggie went to the police when her stalker threatened her new fiancé, but when the police reached out to him, he showed up at her parent's house to confront them. He continued to stalk the new couple, even having Maggie's fiancé banned from the Brazilian Ju Jitsu academy he train...
Feb 21, 2023•57 min•Ep. 162
Sarah is being stalked by her ex-boyfriend, who shared their private sexual messages with her parents. After dating for eight years, Sarah ended her toxic relationship and moved to a new city for a fresh start. But her ex became obsessed and followed her. He confronted her friend when she stayed at his house, followed her to work, and texted her non-stop. Sarah even worried he would steal her puppy. When Sarah attended a holiday work party, her stalker left a note on her friend's car and sent em...
Feb 14, 2023•53 min•Ep. 161
Nicolette is being stalked by someone who is trying to destroy her and her family. When Nicolette's high school friend met her brother, they were soon inseparable. They married and had a child during her senior year of high school, but the couple became volatile toward family members over the next few years. After Nicolette was cut out of her brother and sister-in-law's lives, she and others in the family started getting anonymous threatening letters and phone calls. As things escalated, Nicolet...
Feb 07, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 160
Amber was stalked by an obsessed coworker. Amber's female coworker took a romantic interest in her, showing up at places she would be and even befriending her grandmother. Amber made it clear that she didn't want her coworker to contact her or anyone in her family, but she didn't stop. The coworker sent hundreds of texts, took photos of her parked car, and left gifts at Amber's house. Things became violent when Amber was threatened and sexually assaulted at knifepoint. Amber escaped and went to ...
Jan 31, 2023•55 min•Ep. 159
Abigail found a new friend in high school who introduced her to drugs, alcohol, cutting, and self-harm. The relationship became more toxic when Abigail was sexually abused, body-shamed, and emotionally tormented. When Abigail tried to pull away, her friend attempted suicide and was admitted to a mental hospital. After she was released from the hospital, the girls re-established their friendship briefly but went separate ways after high school. Years later, the friend reached out to Abigail, who ...
Jan 24, 2023•49 min•Ep. 158
Danielle was stalked by an ex-boyfriend, which drove her to quit high school. In school, Danielle was bullied and mistreated by her classmates but thought things would change for the better when she began seeing a boy in her class. The relationship quickly went downhill because he was abusive and sexually assaulted Danielle. When she broke up with him and ignored him, he started rumors, followed her to and from school, and she received threatening notes from other students. There was a confronta...
Jan 17, 2023•52 min•Ep. 157
Leigh-Anne was stalked by an ex-boyfriend after the relationship went from love bombing to abusive. After the break-up, he hacked her social media and stalked her, called her repeatedly, harassed her friends, sat outside her house, and followed her to work. He also threatened to rape her, attack her family with acid, and even found others willing to help him harass her. After changing her phone number multiple times, Leigh-Anne went to the police, who advised her to move away and change her lega...
Jan 10, 2023•50 min•Ep. 156
Alex was stalked for over a decade by an acquaintance she met through an ex-boyfriend when she was seventeen. Ten years later, he reached out on social media after her divorce, and they met up, but there were too many red flags, so Alex ended things immediately. She then found out he had been collecting photos of her through the years from social media and using them as screen savers on his computer. Alex also discovered he was behind anonymous threatening emails to her husband while they were m...
Jan 03, 2023•48 min•Ep. 155
Patrick Brady is a criminologist and university professor who studies stalking behavior and its impact on victims. We discuss some cases he's worked on, types of technology used by stalkers, common stalking behaviors, and how the justice system responds to stalking. Along with his research, he has conducted interviews with officers, prosecutors, advocates, and survivors to understand the crime of stalking thoroughly. Patrick highlights why it's often difficult to prosecute a stalking case and ho...
Dec 27, 2022•44 min•Ep. 154
Elaine Parker was stalked by a man she met on a dating app. The relationship moved quickly, and right after they were engaged, Elaine endured domestic abuse, sexual assault, and rape. She finally got him out of the house and turned to the police, who arrested him multiple times when he began stalking her, threatening her, and trying to break into her home. As his stalking continued, Elaine found out he was still online dating and bragged about it on social media. While Elaine's stalker is curren...
Dec 20, 2022•46 min•Ep. 153
Jess is being stalked by her ex-boyfriend. When Jess became too busy with work, she had to put her relationship on the back burner, but her boyfriend couldn't accept it. He became jealous and insecure, questioned her about their relationship, went through her phone, and stopped her from talking to her male friends. Jess ended the relationship, and he tried desperately to win her back. When she didn't respond, he threatened suicide. She called the police, but they determined he was not a threat t...
Dec 13, 2022•58 min•Ep. 152
Ashlee Levitch was in a toxic relationship with a narcissist, who later stalked her. Her ex-boyfriend used abusive tactics like trauma bonding, devaluing, bread-crumbing, dog-whistling, and future faking. Once she left him and began to heal, she could see the full impact of the trauma she had experienced. Her new podcast, "The Narc and Me," explores the effects of being with a narcissistic partner and how you can heal in the aftermath. PODCAST LINKS: Ashlee Levitch (Guest) TikTok (@thenarcandme)...
Dec 06, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 151
Kalie is being stalked by her ex-boyfriend, who impersonated a medical professional to try and kidnap her daughter. After Kalie and her boyfriend broke up, she married a man in the military the following year. Her ex, also in the military, impersonated a medical professional to get her and her new husband's contact information. When her ex found them, he threatened to kidnap Kalie's child and do DNA testing to see if the child was his. She was able to keep him away from her child, but her ex cal...
Nov 29, 2022•49 min•Ep. 250
Megan Bruce was stalked by a man after one date. Megan wasn't interested in a second date, but he wouldn't take no for an answer. He followed her to her usual hangouts and constantly contacted her. When she stopped responding to him, he broke into her house. Megan had little support from friends and family and felt her life starting to unravel. She attempted suicide believing her son would be safer without her. Megan fought to survive and spent years working on her recovery, and now helps other ...
Nov 22, 2022•59 min•Ep. 149
Shelly is currently being stalked by an ex-boyfriend. After they broke up, he used an extra set of keys to enter her flat and place things around that would remind her of him. He also left lights on, ate her food, moved stuff in the cupboards, and stole her mail. Shelly saw her stalker regularly driving the opposite way on the road she took to work. She changed the locks on her flat, but he continued to break in. After months of being stalked, Shelly went to the police with evidence, and a train...
Nov 15, 2022•46 min•Ep. 148
Lucy Walsh is being stalked by a stranger who hitchhiked from Minnesota to Los Angeles to marry her. He showed up at her father's house first, but when that didn't work, he found her address online and showed up there. When he couldn't break in, he built a shrine to Lucy in her front yard and left a note saying he'd be back. After Lucy alerted her family's security, they sent her to a hotel where she was placed under 24/7 surveillance. The stalker repeatedly showed up at her home, snuck through ...
Nov 08, 2022•48 min•Ep. 147
Ty James was stalked by a woman who refused to take no for an answer. Ty is a single dad and social media content creator who met a woman through an online dating app. After a few dates, he ended things, but she couldn't accept it and sent him hundreds of messages and called him nonstop until he blocked her. She then began sending packages to his house, both hand delivered and online orders. He also found a decapitated squirrel's head and an apple air tag tucked under the rear bumper of one of h...
Nov 01, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 146
Lili Greer believes a stalker murdered her missing mother. After leaving an abusive relationship, Lili's mother, Tina, moved them into a new house that was soon broken into and vandalized. They assumed it was Tina's ex watching them, frightening them, and making his presence known. Tina agreed to meet him and was never seen or heard from again. Lili was thirteen when her mother went missing, and since then, she has fought to prove that her mother was murdered by her stalker. Lili joins us today ...
Oct 25, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 145
Clara was stalked in college by a student who catfished her. Clara befriended a student who lived down the hall in her dorm who told her that her guy friend from back home was interested in meeting. This guy friend and Clara started texting, but she noticed the guy would never respond when her friend wasn't around, and things didn't add up. Searching on Facebook, Clara found the guy and reached out to him, soon finding out her friend had been impersonating him. He knew of Clara's friend and was ...
Oct 18, 2022•57 min•Ep. 144
Shirley and her daughter Sarah were terrorized by a stalker who continually entered their home. During a sleepover, Sarah and her friends saw a man staring at them through the bedroom window. Shirley checked the house but found nothing and dismissed it, thinking the children were trying to scare each other. Months later, Sarah woke up and said she saw the same man…but this time he was in her bedroom watching her sleep. Shirley called the police, but they were dismissive after finding out Shirley...
Oct 11, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 143
KD was stalked by her high school ex-boyfriend while attending college. After graduating from a Christian high school, KD broke up with her boyfriend, who then decided to attend the same college. Once their first semester began, he obtained her schedule and followed her to class, the dining hall, and her dorm room. KD was overwhelmed by his obsession and the intense stress from constantly being under his surveillance. Now she's speaking out about how her intensely religious culture created a dev...
Oct 04, 2022•49 min•Ep. 142
Jodi was stalked by her violent ex-husband. While in her early 20s, Jodi started dating a man she met while out with friends. After they moved in together, he began to isolate her, forced her to drop out of college, and became physically abusive. He locked her in a closet, broke her nose, and left bruises all over her body. Jodi left him, fearing for her life, but he couldn't let her go and started stalking her. He followed her, called nonstop, vandalized her car, broke into her apartment, and l...
Sep 27, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 141
Rosemary was stalked by a man while playing a tabletop role-playing game. After moving to a new town, Rosemary joined a local Table Top Role Playing Game, also known as the TTRPG Community, and soon met another new player who took an interest in her. She turned him down when he asked her, letting him know she was a lesbian and already in a relationship. The man started a new role-playing game about a woman stalked by another character who refused to take no for an answer, and the game soon mirro...
Sep 20, 2022•51 min•Ep. 140
