![]() Luckily she soon met and started working with an extremely helpful female police detective who was an expert on stalking (from personal experience) and knew exactly what my sister was going through. We monitored the situation as best we could and were prepared to act if we ever sensed imminent violence on his part. But we weren't convinced and were very worried given the steady escalation. ![]() No, she said - she could handle this and he would eventually give up. And as the threats got more and more specific my father and I eventually offered to make her 'problem' go away permanently. The police were sympathetic but couldn't do much unless there was some direct proof of his involvement. Even after she moved to a new city he was able to use social engineering to track her down and torment her once again. But he was also quite clever and always made sure that nothing could ever be directly traced back to him. He made it clear that unless she went out with him something very bad would happen to her and/or her family. Her mail was routinely stolen and anything that she didn't lock up at night would be destroyed or defiled. He once even broke into her apartment and kidnapped her cat and wouldn't return it until she did exactly what he wanted. He would vandalize her car at her office and leave anonymous threatening notes and call up her boss at work and make accusations against her. She moved twice and changed her phone number but he still was able to track her down and start the harassment and threats again. ![]() He became obsessed with her and gradually more and more threatening and manipulative. My sister once had a stalker right after she graduated from college - it was a guy who lived in the same apartment complex that she had gone out with on a single date. ![]() I stood in batting position, weed slasher above my right shoulder, poised to strike. But I could not bring a heavy serrated iron blade down on a man's head.īeing at the head of the stairs gave me a tactical advantage - this was why I was sleeping upstairs. E headed up the stairs, saying: 'I'm going to shoot you.' He was carrying something with a long narrow barrel. The door at the foot of the stairs opened. I picked up the weed slasher I kept by the bed and went to the head of the stairs. I heard glass smashing downstairs and knew who it was. At the end of August 2013 E came down the road in the middle of the night. Nor was she willing to take physical action to protect herself. It's an interesting read but also frustrating because the woman doesn't seem able to truly accept the serious danger she was in - even after the guy broke into her house one night and explained that he was going to kill her. This was the first step on the slippery slope to the baseball bat. I believed I could exercise this right and attempted to do so. It's not a heavy sentence, but the law is beautifully genderblind: I have the same right to occupy my property undisturbed as my uncle the ex-marine. Entering a property when forbidden to do so, or remaining on a property after being asked to leave, carries a maximum sentence of three months and/or a $500 fine. I read the Vermont law on trespass on 28 December 2012 and it appeared to confirm my sense of the social norm. I'm sorry you can't live on your property.' It's a big leap from 'you know I love her' to baseball bat by the bed. I was desperate to finish a book.Į's landlord: 'You're a very attractive woman. Then I found a room on Craigslist that was available until the end of January. I packed my bags and left for a motel within the hour. It seemed harsh to lock someone up for social cluelessness, but I was spooked. This was clearly something I could report to the police. When I got back I found a pane of glass on the dresser there was a gap in its normal home in the side door. ![]() E turned up next morning at six because his fire had gone out. One woman's account of being stalked by a neighbor in rural Vermont. I refer to the law which lays down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right." Quote of the Day "There exists a law, not written down anywhere, but inborn in our hearts, a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading, a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. ![]()
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