Joy and Bonnie were relentlessly stalked in their teens through a series of obscene phone calls.

Joy began receiving sexually explicit phone calls when she was fifteen. The harassment continues for years and after Joy loses her fiancé in a car accident her stalker comments, "I know how lonely you must be and I know what a lonely female would want." The police step in and set up a sting operation to catch her stalker.

At fourteen, Bonnie and her best friend began chatting with a guy over a tele-personals party line. They agree to meet him in person and when an older man shows up, they flee. Bonnie begins receiving harassing calls from her stalker that will go on for fourteen years.

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Kate Romero was stalked by her ex-husband for over forty years.

At seventeen, Kate marries an older man who offers her an escape from her troubled life. He begins to physically and sexually assault her, telling her, "If you ever escape me or tell anyone what I did, I will hunt you for the rest of my life and I will kill you."

Kate flees him but he continues to stalk her throughout her new relationships, marriages, and motherhood for the next four decades until she finally gets her day in court.

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Lisa Williams reveals that her husband's ex-wife has been stalking her for over a decade.?

In her own words, Lisa shares details about receiving terrifying harassment including doctored pictures with her head decapitated, graphic social media posts mocking her sex life, and messages accusing her of child abuse.

Lisa fights back, continuing to build her case against her stalker and launches an anti-stalking organization online to help others.

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Casey was stalked by her ex-fiance right after she ended their engagement. 

After catching her fiancé in a series of disturbing lies, Casey breaks off their engagement. He immediately begins obsessively calling and texting her, shows up to her house drunk to confront her and her new boyfriend, and texts her a video message that he's on his way to her house to kill himself. 

She turns to authorities and discovers details about his criminal past and that he's filed a protective order against her. 

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After Lauren broke up with her boyfriend, he vandalized her car, threatened her with violence, tried to hack into her email and social media accounts and harassed her mother, Ann. As his stalking escalated, Lauren and Ann considered moving away to avoid his constant torment.   

They discover private investigator Eric Peterson and work together to have Lauren's stalker arrested and admit to all the crimes he's committed against her.

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While working on her Ph.D., Skye befriends a brilliant and charismatic neuroscience student who quickly seizes control over all aspects of her life. 

Skye breaks up with her then-boyfriend and the neuroscience student insists that he and Skye start dating. After he begins abusing her emotionally, mentally, and physically, Skye turns to authorities to have him arrested. She immediately becomes a pariah amongst most of her academic peers and is now "more afraid of the social suicide than (she) was of being killed".

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While working at a pizza place, Liz sees a strange man lingering in the parking lot and finds an anonymous note in her car that reads, "It sucks to be invisible, huh?".

Over the next eight years he writes her obsessive and threatening notes, stalks her outside the daycare where she worked, vandalizes her car, and breaks into her house. Liz moves away hoping to leave her stalker behind but comes home to find a note that reads, "I found you Invisible Girl."

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Sisters Julia and Alice were stalked by their mother's live-in boyfriend beginning when they were just twelve and ten years-old.

They endured years of psychological trauma at the hands of this abusive alcoholic photographer who they eventually discovered was watching them through windows.

After he was caught peeping outside Julia's friend's house, the full extent of his sick and toxic behavior was discovered.

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Julie S. Lalonde was stalked by her abusive ex-boyfriend for over ten years.

Julie begins dating a good looking and charismatic high school classmate who becomes abusive and jealous of her life and aspirations. After she leaves him, he begins stalking her daily for the next five years, harassing her friends, tapping her phone calls, and sending her inappropriate gifts. She eventually takes him to court where the justices of the peace chastise her for wasting the court's time with her case. Julie emerges from her traumatic ordeal becoming an internationally recognized women's rights advocate, public educator, and the author of Resilience Is Futile: The Life and Death and Life of Julie S. Lalonde chronicling her story of survival, courage, and ultimately, hope.

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Kathie Truitt almost went to prison after being falsely accused of trying to kill her stalker neighbor.

After moving into a seemingly quiet suburban neighborhood, Kathie and her family are stalked by a "crazy neighbor lady" who makes up strange lies about Kathie and even begins to dress like her. Her neighbor lies to authorities and has Kathie charged with attempted murder of which she is later acquitted. Kathie's book entitled, 'False Victim', is the basis for the Lifetime Movie 'The Neighbor in the Window', starring Jamie-Lynn Sigler.

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