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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 mirrored her real-life stalking nightmare. Rosemary's stalker cyber-stalked her, followed her, and threatened her and her friends. She went to the police and informed her job, friends, and landlord to get help. When her stalker was outed to the TTRPG community, she found out she was not his only victim.
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Tara was stalked by her abusive ex-boyfriend. While online dating, Tara formed a quick friendship with a man she met. He needed a place to stay, so she offered him a spare room in her house, leading to a romantic relationship. Shortly after moving in together, he became abusive. He drugged Tara, cut her water and electric lines, tried to set her house on fire, and smashed her stove and TV with a baseball bat. She kicked him out, but he called repeatedly, broke into her home, and sent death threats detailing how he would kill her. One of Tara's Facebook friends, Nikki, reached out to Tara after she realized they had both dated the same man. Together they discovered several other women he had stalked. Nikki also joins us on this episode and previously revealed her own story on Strictly Stalking Episode 123, "Under His Influence."
EPISODE 123 - "UNDER HIS INFLUENCE" (LINK)
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Lola Blanc and Meagan Elizabeth are cult survivors who turned their harrowing experiences into a true crime podcast. As a child, Lola and her mother fell prey to a charismatic "prophet," who turned out to be a cult leader. Meagan was raised in a high control Christian group known as the Two by Twos aka "The Truth" or "The Way." Together, Lola & Meagan co-host the podcast Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation, where they share their experiences with seductive cult leaders, the dangers of groupthink, and abuse of power through religion. Today they're joining us to share their own stalking experiences, discuss cult leaders who stalk, and reveal the similarities between cult leaders and stalkers.
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Lindsey was stalked by the worship leader from her church. After a break up, Lindsay moved back to her hometown and began a new relationship with the worship leader from her church. He was controlling, went through her phone, obsessed over her social media, got mad when she went places without him, and was abusive. As Lindsey was breaking things off with him, coincidentally, the police served a warrant for his arrest for the alleged sexual assault of a minor. He went on the run, only communicating through Lindsey until she convinced him to turn himself in, but he quickly posted bail. While on bail he began stalking Lindsay, texting her, love bombing her, sending gifts, and even followed her out of town. Due to his threats and access to firearms, Lindsey went into hiding in order to stay alive.
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Rhonda was stalked by a man she moved into her apartment. While living in NYC, Rhonda was on the search for a new roommate when the man she had been briefly dating offered to move in with her. Immediately after he moved in, he became controlling, paranoid, and angry. He kept tabs on Rhonda, told her not to hang out with friends, accused her of lying, and often got into violent fights with other men. As the relationship unraveled, she discovered he stole money from her, lied to her, and cheated on her. Frightened by his behavior, Rhonda told him to leave because she didn't feel safe. But, after he left, she discovered a phone her stalker had left behind to record her conversations. His stalking continued to escalate after she broke it off, begging her to take him back and messaging her with fake numbers. When Rhonda cut off all contact, her stalker started showing up at her job and apartment, causing her to fear for her life.
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Once called "the miracle on the beach," Synanon began in the 1960s as an experimental rehab facility in Santa Monica, California with a radical claim: It could cure heroin addiction. Before long, it would make an even bolder claim: It could cure any of your problems. All you had to do was move in. What started in a house on the beach, soon spread to compounds across the country. The man who made the miracle happen, Charles E. Dederich, aka "Chuck," would be the one to destroy it all, along with the lives of many of his followers and millions of dollars in assets. The Sunshine Place tells the mind-blowing, true-story of Synanon - one of America's most cutting edge social experiments, turned into one of its most dangerous and violent cults - as it's never been told before: by the people who lived it. Executive Produced by Robert Downey Jr., Susan Downey, and Emily Barclay Ford for Team Downey and C13Originals, together with Josh McLaughlin for Wink Pictures and written, produced, and directed by Peabody-nominated C13Originals, a Cadence13 Studio.
Jillian Hamilton is the Creator and Host of the Podcast "Cheating: When Love Lies." While in high school, a stranger started sending Jillian gifts and notes, which she ignored at first. She figured out who her "secret admirer" was when he showed up unannounced at her parent's house, a boy in her grade that she wasn't friends with and didn't know well. Jillian continued to ignore the letters and gifts, eventually moving away to college. While at college, she received a final note telling her that her stalker had been thinking about her all this time and would always continue to follow her. Jillian is a relationship expert and shares her experience and the research she's done to explore and understand complex relationships. We examine relationship red flags, dive into the psychology behind intimate partner stalking, and get Jillian's advice on what you can do when stalking behavior starts.
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Maisie was stalked by her driving instructor after taking lessons from him. While learning to drive, Maisie's teacher seemed professional and friendly at first, but then she started feeling uncomfortable around him. She turned him down when he asked her out for a drink for her 18th birthday, and he responded by creating a Tik Tok for her with driving tips, but he added a heart and called her his "favorite." Because he was almost 40 years older than her, Maisie initially thought he was just a sad man with a crush. Things spiraled when he created an IG account, counting down the days until he saw her again, sent her gifts, texted her confessing his love, and joined her WhatsApp group chat. Not stopping there, her stalker also paid someone from the dark web to hack into her Instagram, which is when Maisie first reported him to the police. He was caught and placed on bail after driving to her dorm to try to see her but immediately broke bail by requesting to follow her on Instagram. After being found guilty at trial, he sent Maisie a message saying, "you have just killed me," and then went missing for 48 hours.
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Jeanette was stalked in college by a classmate she befriended from her wilderness class. During the class trip, they got to know each other as friends, and afterward, he texted her, asking her to be his girlfriend and saying he loved her. She turned him down, but he continued to reach out excessively, eventually showing up in class with a bouquet, causing them embarrassment when she again turned him down. He continued to follow her around campus and even threatened suicide. Jeanette went to the campus police as his threats turned from self-harm to harming her, even posting a message on Facebook offering money to anyone willing to strip her naked in public.
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Melanie was stalked by her ex-husband after meeting and connecting with him online. When he told her about his criminal past, she felt they should just remain friends, but he won her over and they were quickly married. Melanie's new husband was immediately abusive, and she barely made it out of the marriage alive. After a horrible beating she filed for divorce and pressed charges. Her abuser only served five months in jail. After his release, he hacked Melanie's social media to get access to her photos and messages. He created fake social media accounts, posted her information online, and told her he would commit a murder-suicide. He constantly threatened Melanie, telling her how he wanted to torture and murder her. Things culminated in a high-speed chase and when law enforcement finally arrested him, they found large quantities of ammo, weapons, and body armor, confirming his threats to murder Melanie. **The following episode of Strictly Stalking contains graphic descriptions of domestic violence. Listener discretion is advised.**
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