Daily Archives: August 6, 2012
ADDITIONAL RESOURCE ON STALKING FROM COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY WOMEN’S PROGRAMS AND STUDIES
Additional Resources
For excellent information on stalking, including stalking behavior logs, safety plan guidelines, and a complete handbook for victims, contact the National Center for Victims of Crime Stalking Resource Center online at www.ncvc.org, call 1-800-FYI-CALL (M-F 8:30 AM – 8:30 PM EST), or e-mail [email protected]
A survey of university undergraduates revealed that 20% had been stalked or harassed by a former dating partner. (Haugaar & Seri 2004)
More than one million women and nearly 400,000 men are stalked annually in the United States (U.S. Justice Dept. 1998)
THE START OF MANY THINGS WE DID WRONG IN MORGAN’S STALKING CASE
How did her stalker always know right when Morgan came home? He always started his tapping and banging on her window within 15 minutes of her arriving at her house. This is a very important question as the Sheriff’s Patrol Officers later on believed it had to be someone in our neighborhood that could see her coming home. The Sheriff’s suggested that we not speak to our neighbors about what was happening, in order to give them a better chance of catching this stalker off-guard if he was in our neighborhood…the problem with this tactic is that if more people in your neighborhood know, the more eyes you have watching out for you, it makes it harder on the criminal to sneak around, and it is easier to catch the criminal, but we did not know at the time so we took the Patrol Officer’s suggestion and tried to keep it quiet for the time being.
A little later on when we captured the first picture of the stalker and there were Sheriff’s Patrol Officers parked all around our house not all the neighbors could be kept in the dark any longer. One of them just stormed up our driveway and demanded to know what was going on. He also stopped and spoke with one of the officers. So a couple of them did find out, which was good because right after that happened we came the closest (in my opinion) to catching the stalker…but you will read about that on August 29th.