Post by trollie on Jan 28, 2019 6:15:16 GMT
There's a book by John Douglas...the same (real life) FBI agent from the "Mindhunter" series, called "Obsession" and in it he covers real stalking cases.
His view is that stalkers are not harmless, once men start stalking women...basically they have started on the path to murder, and many stalkers that people assumed where harmless will end up killing their victims.
Mostly they only stop if they get arrested or killed, or they move on to another victim.
One of the cases in the book is Richard Farley, he used to bring his workmate Laura freshly made blueberry bread in the mornings, and when she went to the police no one took her seriously about his stalking because he was bringing her gifts and someone that baked you fresh bread is just a nice guy and she had an over active imagination.
Until he went into work one day armed with several guns and shot her and 10 other people, killing 7 of them.
It was this case that started anti-stalking laws.
His view is that stalkers are not harmless, once men start stalking women...basically they have started on the path to murder, and many stalkers that people assumed where harmless will end up killing their victims.
Mostly they only stop if they get arrested or killed, or they move on to another victim.
One of the cases in the book is Richard Farley, he used to bring his workmate Laura freshly made blueberry bread in the mornings, and when she went to the police no one took her seriously about his stalking because he was bringing her gifts and someone that baked you fresh bread is just a nice guy and she had an over active imagination.
Until he went into work one day armed with several guns and shot her and 10 other people, killing 7 of them.
It was this case that started anti-stalking laws.
In the book, she was emailing her friends a lot. I don't feel like young people use email to the extent this lady does/did. that was one of the things I had to suspend my disbelief about.
