After Being Stalked For 4 Years, She Decided To Share Her Story Online, But Her Stalker Found The Post, And His Threats Only Escalated
According to the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Violence Against Women Survey (NVAW), one in twelve women will be stalked at some point during their lifetime.
And one woman recently opened up about her personal experience with stalking. Moreover, how the terrifying behavior only escalated after she shared her story online.
For context, she had a male stalker for about four years. However, since he never expressed aggression or sent her outright threats, she just tried her best to ignore him. Plus, she did not want to give him the satisfaction of knowing that he frightened her.
“And to be honest, after a while, I also was not scared anymore since he almost never came close to me,” she explained.
“I know being stalked can affect people severely– even in a case like mine– and that’s totally valid. But, I guess I just got lucky and was never really psychologically affected by it.”
In turn, the four years-worth of stalking mostly consisted of sending her letters and gifts. But, the “gifts” were really just eery photos of her own apartment building taken from the outside.
And even though she did call the police a bunch of times about the relentless contact, officials were never able to identify or catch the man. Honestly, she also does not think they really took her complaints seriously.
However, earlier this month, she found a German Reddit threat and thought it would be good to share her story.
Plus, she never really used any social media aside from Reddit and had no identifying information on her profile– so she figured that her stalker would never see it.
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In fact, one person even commented on her Reddit post and asked, “Does he know you’re putting him on blast on Reddit?”
She responded, “Maybe. Maybe it would make him angry; maybe it would turn him on. Don’t know, don’t care.”
Well, unfortunately, it appears that her stalker did see the Reddit post– and he was not going to let her forget it.
One week after she published the post, her stalker was quiet. She received no letters and did not see him anywhere.
But then, out of nowhere, she started receiving printouts of Reddit users’ questions about her story and her responses. She also received a long hateful letter directed at her boyfriend– which was very uncharacteristic.
“His letters were never hateful like that before, though he never seemed happy with my boyfriend. He wrote about how I should ‘share the spotlight with him since I got so much attention thanks to him,'” she recalled.
Anyway, the uptick in stalking behavior did not stop there– because just a few days later, she received another gift. And this time, the gift was not left in her mailbox or on top of her car like in the past.
Instead, the gift– which was in a large taped-shut box– was left inside of her apartment building and right in front of her door.
Out of precaution, she did not take the box inside and instead opened it in the hallway outside of her apartment. And was she found inside was horrifying.
The “gift” contained multiple zip ties, a roll of tape, a TV remote with almost all of the buttons picked off, a pack of bandaids with a few “used” ones, and a framed photo of herself.
“I could tell the picture was taken a few days ago, and my boyfriend was next to me but cut out of the photo,” she said. Yikes!
On top of that, her stalker had shattered the glass frame and filled the box with the glass shards.
So, she phoned the police immediately and showed them everything. And thankfully, the officials were much more concerned this time and said they would be sending patrol cars to monitor her apartment.
In turn, her stalker did not show up or deliver any more letters or gifts to her apartment for another week and a half.
But then, it all started again with more letters.
This time, though, the letters were harsher toward her. Apparently, the stalker accused her of not appreciating his “effort” and claimed that he had wasted his time and been wrong about her being special.
Then, when she left her apartment about a week ago, she stepped out onto her front door mat and heard a “crunch” sound.
She realized that sometime during the night before, her stalker had been right outside her apartment and placed more broken glass underneath the mat.
At that point, though, she was already running late for work. So, she planned to just call her boyfriend on the way and tell him to contact the police again.
But, lo and behold, after arriving at her car, she found that her stalker had completely vandalized it. The headlights were smashed in, the sides were scratched, and the windshield had a painted message on it.
“It’s time soon, Miss,” the message read.
This utterly freaked her out, and she ended up going back inside to call the cops herself. And the authorities’ concern only grew larger– partly because of the size of the crime as well as her growing frustration with their lack of investigative efforts.
Thankfully, though, the police seemingly did not have to do much to catch her stalker. Instead, she actually had a dashcam already installed in her car– so the camera caught everything, including her stalker’s identity, on tape.
So, she provided the police with the footage as well as photos she had taken of her stalker in the past, and the officers promised to look into it.
Then, all was quiet for two more days– until she received an alarming bang on her front door at 4:00 a.m.
She and her boyfriend had been sleeping when someone began wailing on their front door and screaming, “This is the police; please open the door.”
At first, they were understandably hesitant and did not know if it was really the authorities. But, after they saw blue lights flashing outside, they eventually opened the door and learned that her stalker had finally been captured.
Apparently, one of her downstairs neighbors had come home from their night shift and heard someone else swoop into the apartment building after them.
And all of her neighbors had known about the stalking situation, so they were wary of letting strangers in the building.
In turn, the neighbor then went inside their apartment and checked the peephole to see who the unknown person was.
“Then, he saw a middle-aged man walk upstairs. Above this neighbor are only me and my boyfriend and a single mom with three kids who probably would not be getting any visitors at 3:00 a.m. So, they called the police,” she concluded.
And finally, after the police arrived, they found the man in the stairwell near her apartment.
Apparently, there is a little window there where he would have been able to see the flashing cop car lights.
So, it is unclear if he just missed the lights or wanted to get caught. Regardless, though, as soon as officers arrived on the scene, the man immediately confessed to being her stalker. Police also found him armed with a pocket knife.
Now, her stalker is facing several charges, and, in the meantime, she has gathered every shred of evidence to hold against her stalker.
“I don’t know what kind of outcome I can expect. But for now, I have finally got some peace,” she finished.
You can read the original post on Reddit here.
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