Chanel has been stalked for over twenty years by a boy she met in junior high. During college, Chanel reached out to him when his father died. They renewed their friendship, but when his behavior became erratic. she learned that he had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. He was obsessed with Chanel, becoming upset if she didn't answer his calls, constantly trying to contact her, following her, and carrying wedding rings around so he could propose to her. Chanel got multiple restraining orders acr...
Oct 17, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 196
Jaime was stalked by a homophobic stranger in college. After coming out in college, Jaime started getting strange messages from an AOL account pretending to be her girlfriend The messages told her what she was wearing and where she was going, and soon became violent and threatening. Jamie and her girlfriend told school officials, but the stalking didn't stop. DO YOU HAVE YOUR OWN STORY TO SHARE? E-MAIL US strictlystalkingpod@gmail.com Instagram: @strictlystalkingpod @feathergirl77 @jaked3000 SPO...
Oct 10, 2023•41 min•Ep. 195
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...
Oct 06, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 192
Hannah was stalked by a Facebook follower. The stalker mimicked Hannah's life, dressing like her, changing hairstyles to match, taking & posting similar photos on social media, and even dating her ex-husband. Hannah was granted an emergency protective order, but the cyberstalking only escalated. GUEST LINKS: Hannah https://instagram.com/hannah.hex https://www.tiktok.com/@hannahhex13 DO YOU HAVE YOUR OWN STORY TO SHARE? E-MAIL US strictlystalkingpod@gmail.com Instagram: @strictlystalkingpod @...
Oct 03, 2023•51 min•Ep. 193
Charlotte was stalked by a man who had been a patient at the rehab clinic where she worked. Years later, Charlotte saw the man around town, and he asked to meet her for coffee. They became friends and dated briefly, but she immediately noticed a lot of red flags and ended the relationship. He stalked her, and she filed for a protective order, but it only made his stalking intensify. Her stalker caused her to lose her apartment and her job and ultimately forced her to leave the state. GUEST LINKS...
Sep 26, 2023•49 min•Ep. 193
Patti Stewart was stalked by a man she met online. After briefly dating, she reported him to his Air Force chain of command, but no action was taken. Being stalked destroyed Patti's business, and her mental health suffered, so she took matters into her own hands and rebounded by helping other women through self-defense training and private investigative services. Patti continues to share her story of healing, as well as tips and advice on staying safe. GUEST LINKS: Patti Stewart / Defense In Hee...
Sep 19, 2023•45 min•Ep. 192
Danesh, AKA @thatdaneshguy throughout social media, is being stalked by someone who didn't like what he posted. Danesh posts content that helps victims hold perpetrators accountable and has amassed millions of followers. In those, millions of followers are enemies who are obsessed with harming him, his family, and his platform. Danesh is here to talk about his stalking case, the steps he's taking to fight back and share stories about the others he's helped through social media. GUEST LINKS: Dane...
Sep 12, 2023•54 min•Ep. 216
Caitlyn was stalked by her ex-boyfriend. After matching on Tinder, they started dating and moved in together, but it didn't last. When Caitlyn asked him to move out, he stalked her by showing up at her job, threatening her, and becoming extremely violent.Caitlyn was dating a new man and even went to the police, but that only made her stalker escalate by threatening to kill her new boyfriend and himself. GUEST LINKS: DO YOU HAVE YOUR OWN STORY TO SHARE? E-MAIL US strictlystalkingpod@gmail.com Ins...
Sep 05, 2023•37 min•Ep. 190
Shanetta was stalked by a man attempting to take control of her house. After purchasing her first home, Shanetta received disturbing letters in the mail from someone claiming ownership of the land on which the property was built. Soon after, she discovered that her house had been broken into and the locks were changed. She was then confronted by the person who was responsible for the letters. The stalker was arrested, charged with burglary, then released only to break in again prompting a stando...
Sep 01, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 226
Jennifer was stalked by a high school classmate. When Jennifer was fourteen, a classmate sent her notes in class, walked to her house after school, followed her, and called her regularly - but she ignored him. She told her parents and school counselors, but the stalking continued until she moved away. Decades passed, and he suddenly started sending her thousands of messages. She blocked him, but it didn't help. He blamed Jennifer for his wife leaving him and even came to her city, following her ...
Aug 29, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 189
Emma was stalked by a man she met online dating. After starting a relationship, he told her his friends were watching and he could trace her internet searches. When she broke up with him, he texted, called, and sent unwanted gifts. When Emma ignored him, he moved to her neighborhood and struck up a friendship with her mom's partner to stay in her life. Emma went to the police, but it didn't help, and he continued to stalk her. GUEST LINKS: DO YOU HAVE YOUR OWN STORY TO SHARE? E-MAIL US strictlys...
Aug 22, 2023•49 min•Ep. 201
Kylan was stalked by her ex-boyfriend. When the relationship turned toxic, and Kylan ended it, he broke into her house, threatened her, called from fake numbers, stood in her neighborhood holding a sign, and hid disturbing letters around her house. Kylan went to the police, and when they failed to help her, she hired a lawyer, but things continued to escalate. She posted her story on social media, and it went viral, finally getting the attention of the police. GUEST LINKS: DO YOU HAVE YOUR OWN S...
Aug 15, 2023•51 min•Ep. 228
Caitlin Mathis was stalked by an ex-boyfriend she dated for a few months. After breaking up, he stalked Caitlin at her University and was banned, but that didn't stop him, and when he showed up again, she called 911. The stalker was arrested, but soon after being released, he was charged with murder. Caitlin is sharing her story and her path toward healing and advocating for other survivors. GUEST LINKS: Stalking Prevention, Awareness, & Resource Center https://www.stalkingawareness.org/ DO ...
Aug 08, 2023•46 min•Ep. 182
After quitting her job and moving to a new town, Skylar began receiving a series of anonymous emails. The e-mails became vulgar and explicit, asking her to hook up and describing the fantasy of breaking into her house and raping her. When Skylar didn't reply the sender made threats claiming they would get what they wanted and take their own pics of her moaning and screaming - but that she "probably wouldn't like it." Skylar discovered that the person responsible was someone she knew well - who a...
Aug 04, 2023•58 min•Ep. 224
Angela was stalked by a man she barely knew. After exchanging contact information with a security guard in her neighborhood, the man started sending her bizarre messages that she ignored, and neighbors mentioned he was acting strangely. Soon after, Angela found the man's phone on her property and realized her electric gate's control box had been tampered with so she called the police, but they couldn't find him and only took a report. Angela was working from home with her daughter when she saw t...
Aug 01, 2023•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 185
Samantha is being stalked by her husband's ex-girlfriend. After Samantha found out she was pregnant, her husband told her his ex-girlfriend had been stalking him, his friends, and his family. His stalker constantly blew up his phone, spreading lies about him and making cryptic threats on her social media accounts and blogs. When Samantha's daughter was born, the stalking escalated, so they went to the police, but that didn't help. Samantha asked his ex to stop contacting them, which only ramped ...
Jul 25, 2023•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 184
Nikki Boyer is the creator and host of the podcast "Dying for Sex" and her new series, "Near Death". Nikki is here to tell us about her scary encounter with a Peeping Tom and discuss the differences and similarities between Voyeurism and stalking. Because stalking and Voyeurism are often related offenses involving unwanted attention, we'll also take a dive into similar cases. GUEST LINKS: Nikki Boyer https://www.instagram.com/nikkiboyer/ Near Death (Podcast) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...
Jul 18, 2023•48 min•Ep. 183
Heyda was stalked by a man she met on a dating app. Heyda was doing a live video on TikTok when she was harassed by a user who called her crazy and revealed her parent's address. The harassment continued through TikTok until her stalker eventually revealed themself. Hedya went to the police and hired a lawyer, but it turned into an overwhelming nightmare where she felt re-victimized. Now she is here to share her perspective on surviving a stalker and the emotional, physical, and financial hardsh...
Jul 11, 2023•54 min•Ep. 182
Alona was stalked by a TikTok user. After Alona commented on an influencer's tik tok video, several accounts began harassing her and fake accounts were created using her name. The stalker made outrageous accusations about Alona and her family online, causing issues in her real life. Alona went to the police, but they told her they could do nothing. When the stalker escalated, the police finally got involved, and the truth shocked them all. GUEST LINKS: strictlystalkingpod@gmail.com Instagram: @s...
Jul 04, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 181
April was stalked in her teens by a girl she met in high school. After breaking up with her boyfriend, April was threatened by a girl who was also stalking her ex. The stalking escalated when the girl started rumors at school, drove by her job, and started fights with her friends. April and her parents went to the police, but because they were minors no action was taken. Since meeting her stalker in high school, April has been stalked for over 20 years. GUEST LINKS: DO YOU HAVE YOUR OWN STORY TO...
Jun 27, 2023•54 min•Ep. 180
Meagan was stalked by a coworker she dated in her twenties. When they broke up, he tried to break into her house, wore disguises to follow her, hacked into her accounts, reached out constantly, and blackmailed her into talking to him. The stalking was so terrifying that Meagan moved into a domestic violence shelter with her daughter to hide from him. Even after her stalker was charged and received a suspended one-year probation, it did not stop him from continuing to stalk her. Meagan used her o...
Jun 20, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 179
Brittany was stalked by someone she met on a dating app. During the relationship this person abused drugs, became controlling, went through Brittany's phone, monitored her social media, called constantly, and hid her keys so she couldn't leave. This person slept outside Brittany's apartment and removed the locks on her windows to break in at night. When they broke up, the stalking continued until they showed up at Brittany's house with a gun leading to a standoff with police. GUEST LINKS: Britta...
Jun 13, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 178
Madeleine Heather was stalked by a co-worker when she was fourteen years old. They started dating, and he became possessive and needy. When their relationship ended, she started getting calls from private numbers; she thought she was being followed, and strange cars were driving by her house. With the help of the police, they discovered her ex was stalking her to create fear. **The following episode of Strictly Stalking contains graphic depictions of the sexual assault of a minor. Listener discr...
Jun 06, 2023•56 min•Ep. 177
Nicole Madigan was stalked for over three years by a woman who was obsessed with her. Working as a journalist, Nicole turned her ordeal into a memoir. Part investigation and part expert analysis, Nicole used her own story to examine the psychology behind stalking behaviors and their impact on victims and survivors. LINKS & SUPPORT: Nicole Madigan https://nicolemadigan.com/obsession-book/ https://www.instagram.com/bynicolemadigan/ https://www.panterapress.com.au/product/obsession/ The Love Fi...
May 30, 2023•59 min•Ep. 176
Tara was stalked by a Facebook follower. Tara's fiance started getting messages on Facebook from someone she didn't know, and soon after, they started getting numerous texts from various numbers. They changed their numbers, but the texts only escalated, becoming more personal and threatening, including photos of Tara's house. One night their house was broken into, and they found a dead cat in their mailbox. The situation escalated even further when the stalker called DHS and made false accusatio...
May 23, 2023•56 min•Ep. 175
Jazmin was stalked by a man from her college. Jazmin befriended an awkward student in high school and spent time together when they ended up attending the same college. When their friendship started going downhill, she ended it, and he began stalking her because he thought they were in a relationship. Jazmin moved out of her apartment to escape him, but then he moved a block away from her new place and continued stalking her. Jazmin fought back to keep him away from her and off campus through a ...
May 16, 2023•56 min•Ep. 174
Jillian was fifteen when she met her stalker. They dated, but the relationship was toxic and abusive. When she broke up with him, he tracked her down in public and created scenes, showed up outside her school, forced her to drive him home, and showed up at her house. Jillian eventually called the police, and they found a cache of guns at his house. He was forced to take anger management and domestic violence classes, but it didn't stop him from stalking her and threatening to follow her to a new...
May 09, 2023•37 min•Ep. 173
Olivia was stalked by her ex-fiance. After meeting at a networking event, Olivia started dating a charming, funny, and successful man. But she mistook red flags for devotion when he tracked her movements, called her obsessively, and showed up uninvited when she went out. They moved in together, and things escalated into abuse as he continued to stalk her and threatened to kill her. When Olivia left her stalker, she got a restraining order, but he hacked her emails and social media anyway and mon...
May 02, 2023•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 172
Kayla was stalked by a man she met in high school who she dated for three years. The relationship was extremely toxic, and Kayla's boyfriend was controlling, accused her of cheating, abused her, and threatened suicide if they broke up. When Kayla finally left the relationship, his stalking escalated. He called her constantly, followed her, created social media accounts to harass and cyberstalk her, and begged her to take him back. **The following episode of Strictly Stalking contains topics incl...
Apr 25, 2023•55 min•Ep. 171
Music producer Cara Buckley is being stalked by a former band member. When Cara and her husband let a new backup singer into their band, they soon regretted it when he struggled to learn the songs, drank too much at shows, and harassed other band members. Once they decided it wasn't a good fit, they let him go from the band. After leaving the group, he sent numerous unwanted texts and emails, showed up at their gigs, and became threatening toward the rest of the band. Things escalated when he sp...
Apr 18, 2023•42 min•Ep. 170
