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fromFortune
1 day ago
US news

Michigan mystery revealed: Fired football coach had broken into a lover's apartment and threatened to kill himself when their affair ended | Fortune

fromFortune
1 day ago
US news

Michigan mystery revealed: Fired football coach had broken into a lover's apartment and threatened to kill himself when their affair ended | Fortune

Miscellaneous
fromIndependent
1 day ago

Man threatened to 'butcher' and pour acid in face of influencer in series of 'terrifying' death threats, court hears

A Dublin man allegedly stalked and sent death threats to a social media influencer, threatening acid attacks, to butcher and shoot her and her boyfriend.
fromwww.bbc.com
4 days ago

'Not nice' for Hobinger to be named in stalking case

"Hopefully this is coming to the end. What we care about are the players and we massively care about Marie and the situation she is going through," "It's not nice, particularly the fact she's been named also. I don't think that's great. But we deal with it. "Nobody wants to see these things happening in any walk of life, so hopefully it's drawn to a conclusion really soon.
Soccer (FIFA)
US politics
fromemptywheel
1 week ago

Trump's Terrorists - emptywheel

Taylor Taranto, pardoned for his January 6 trespass, stalked Barack Obama after Trump posted an address and received time served amid concealed sentencing records.
Privacy technologies
fromFuturism
1 week ago

Grok Provides Extremely Detailed and Creepy Instructions for Stalking

Grok provided detailed, actionable stalking instructions, including spyware recommendations, location links to stakeouts, and steps enabling doxxing and physical targeting.
#emma-raducanu
fromFast Company
1 week ago

'Parasocial' named Cambridge's 2025 word of the year

The word has taken on even greater meaning in the age of social media, where we have unparalleled access to the lives of influencers, online personalities, and celebrities via phones. Take Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's engagement. The news triggered mass hysteria online, with many displaying genuine raw emotion for a couple they've never even met. Or British singer Lily Allen, whose latest album West End Girl details a breakup and sparked a "parasocial interest in her love life," according to the Cambridge Dictionary.
Psychology
#murder
fromwww.amny.com
2 weeks ago
New York City

Man indicted for allegedly stabbing his ex-girlfriend to death in brutal Upper Manhattan attack | amNewYork

fromNew York Post
4 months ago
US news

NJ state trooper kills ex-girlfriend, her new boyfriend in murder-suicide after months of stalking her: 'She deserved so much better'

fromwww.amny.com
2 weeks ago
New York City

Man indicted for allegedly stabbing his ex-girlfriend to death in brutal Upper Manhattan attack | amNewYork

fromNew York Post
4 months ago
US news

NJ state trooper kills ex-girlfriend, her new boyfriend in murder-suicide after months of stalking her: 'She deserved so much better'

Mental health
fromThe Walrus
2 weeks ago

Why Don't We Take Stalking More Seriously? | The Walrus

Dating escalated into controlling behaviour and persistent stalking after a breakup, endangering a woman's safety and prompting protective actions for her child.
UK politics
fromwww.independent.co.uk
4 weeks ago

Man, 61, guilty of stalking former Tory minister Penny Mordaunt

Edward Brandt, 61, was convicted of stalking Dame Penny Mordaunt by a jury majority of 10 to 2 and acquitted of the more serious stalking offence.
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 weeks ago

Man, 61, found guilty of stalking former Tory minister Penny Mordaunt

Former councillor Edward Brandt was convicted of stalking Penny Mordaunt after persistent messages, an attempted office security breach, and causing her to change routines.
UK politics
fromwww.bbc.com
4 weeks ago

Man guilty of stalking Dame Penny Mordaunt

Edward Brandt convicted of stalking former MP Penny Mordaunt but cleared of causing serious alarm or distress.
Miscellaneous
fromIndependent
1 month ago

Influencer weeps as she tells court that stalking incident in Dublin hotel has 'taken over her life'

A social media influencer was stalked into her hotel, leaving her with severe anxiety and telling a court the incident has taken over her life.
London
fromwww.standard.co.uk
1 month ago

Trans woman stalked top surgeon who carried out gender reassignment operation

A 28-year-old woman pleaded guilty to stalking a leading gender reassignment surgeon over more than four years, including threats and persistent unwanted contact.
#madeleine-mccann
fromemptywheel
1 month ago

Jeanine Pirro Covers Up Donald Trump's Doxing Conspiracy - emptywheel

As ABC and Politico have written, two AUSAs who've been prosecuting Taranto, Carlos Valdivia and Samuel White, submitted a sentencing memo documenting how the Navy veteran with long-standing mental health issues first participated in January 6 and then, years later, drove his van containing guns and ammunition to stalk Kalorama, looking for Obama while ranting, "Gotta get the shot, stop at nothing to get the shot. This is where other people come to get the shot;"
US politics
World news
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

India arrests man for touching Australian women cricketers DW 10/25/2025

A 30-year-old man was arrested in Indore for allegedly stalking and inappropriately touching two Australian women cricketers during the ICC Women's World Cup.
#domestic-abuse
San Francisco
fromABC7 San Francisco
1 month ago

Convicted harasser out of prison, seen approaching women in SF, report says

Convicted serial stalker Bill Gene Hobbs is reportedly out of prison and back in San Francisco approaching and harassing women.
San Francisco
fromsfist.com
1 month ago

Serial Harasser Bill Gene Hobbs Apparently Out of State Prison, Back to Harassing Women on SF Streets

Convicted serial harasser Bill Gene Hobbs was released from prison and returned to San Francisco streets, approaching and yelling at women in public areas.
#sexual-assault
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

Man charged with stalking Sir Ed Davey and family

PA Media A man has been charged with stalking leader of the Liberal Democrats Sir Ed Davey and his family over a period of several months. Inigo Rowland, who is also charged with possession of a flick-knife, is accused of turning up at the Kingston and Surbiton MP's south-west London home "unannounced" and on "numerous" occasions between June and October, according to a court list.
UK politics
UK politics
fromwww.standard.co.uk
2 months ago

Man charged with stalking Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey

Man charged with stalking Sir Ed Davey and his family and possession of a flick knife; offences alleged between June and October.
Privacy technologies
fromMail Online
2 months ago

Is your ex SPYING? People reveal ordeals via Alexa, Ring and Netflix

Smart devices with cameras, microphones, and trackers can enable ex-partners to continue surveillance through shared logins, apps, trackers, and cameras after a breakup.
UK news
fromIrish Independent
2 months ago

Madeleine McCann's sister tells trial of woman claiming to be missing sibling: 'I always knew she wasn't Madeleine'

A woman is accused of stalking the McCann family by insisting she is their missing daughter, sending altered photos, childhood-memory claims, and DNA requests.
New York City
fromThe New York Sun
2 months ago

Heartstruck Stalker Spends Nights Sleeping on Woman's Brooklyn Rooftop To Win Her Love

A 76-year-old art historian was arrested at Penn Station for public masturbation; police reports also recount other curious criminal incidents across New York City.
California
fromThe Mercury News
2 months ago

Pleasant Hill woman jumped to her death from kidnapper's car in desperate escape attempt, police say

Sara Abdelhadi endured stalking, harassment, and kidnapping that led to her death; suspect Mohammed Yousef Omar faces multiple felony charges including murder and kidnapping.
#harassment
fromIrish Independent
6 months ago
UK news

The Indo Daily: 'A different level of evil' - The convicted rapist who stalked three Sunday World journalists

Mark McAnaw was sentenced to 11 years for harassment after refusing to accept bond conditions deemed onerous.
fromBoston.com
7 months ago
US news

Man arrested after ramming car into front gate of Jennifer Aniston's Los Angeles home

A Mississippi man has been charged with felony stalking after harassing Jennifer Aniston for two years and crashing his vehicle into her property.
fromFuturism
2 months ago

Stalker Already Using OpenAI's Sora 2 to Harass Victim

Many of these videos feature recognizable characters like SpongeBob cooking meth, raising the obvious question of whether the AI company was flagrantly ignoring copyright law. And as tons of Sora-made videos parodying Altman hit the web, including some that fake CCTV footage showing him committing crimes, the implication that the tech could easily be used to fabricate damaging videos of people without their permission couldn't be ignored.
Artificial intelligence
#coercive-control
US news
fromNew York Post
2 months ago

Suspected NJ stalker was driving 70 mph when he allegedly killed teen girls on e-bike: court records

A 17-year-old driver allegedly drove 70 mph and fatally struck two girls on an e-bike, facing first-degree murder charges and numerous traffic summonses.
fromThe Verge
2 months ago

Tile's lack of encryption could make tracker owners vulnerable to stalking

Security researchers are shining the spotlight on a serious security vulnerability that could enable stalkers to track victims using their own Tile tags, as well as other unwanted violations of security and privacy. Research outlined by Wired shows that Tile's anti-theft mode, which makes its trackers "invisible" on the Tile network, counteracts measures to prevent stalking. Bad actors could also potentially intercept unencrypted information sent from the tags, like their unique IDs and MAC addresses,
Privacy professionals
Privacy technologies
fromWIRED
2 months ago

Tile Tracking Tags Can Be Exploited by Tech-Savvy Stalkers, Researchers Say

Tile Bluetooth trackers broadcast unencrypted identifiers allowing tracking by third parties and potentially by Tile, undermining stated user privacy protections.
#taylor-swift
fromSFGATE
2 months ago
Music

Taylor Swift Secures Restraining Order Against Alleged Stalker: What You Need to Know

fromwww.theguardian.com
6 months ago
SF music

Taylor Swift granted restraining order against alleged stalker

Taylor Swift has secured a temporary restraining order against an alleged stalker who has repeatedly visited her home.
fromConsequence
6 months ago
SF parents

Taylor Swift Granted Restraining Order Against Alleged Stalker

Taylor Swift was granted a restraining order against an alleged stalker, requiring him to stay 100 yards away from her.
fromSFGATE
2 months ago
Music

Taylor Swift Secures Restraining Order Against Alleged Stalker: What You Need to Know

SF parents
fromConsequence
6 months ago

Taylor Swift Granted Restraining Order Against Alleged Stalker

Taylor Swift was granted a restraining order against an alleged stalker, requiring him to stay 100 yards away from her.
fromABC7 San Francisco
2 months ago

Morgan Hill woman says prowler used Wi-Fi jammer to disable home cameras, tried to enter

Unfortunately, some of those jammers they operate on the same signal as Wi-Fi signals and that's where the jamming takes place, as that jammer approaches the Wi-Fi signal it will cause interruptions to the cameras
California
California
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

Two men arrested in Morgan Hill stalking case

Two Colombian nationals were arrested in Morgan Hill on suspicion of stalking, vandalism, prowling, criminal conspiracy and providing a false name.
Relationships
fromBuzzFeed
2 months ago

15 Bone-Chilling Voicemails That Left People Frozen With Fear And Changed Lives

A woman endured escalating, violent stalking and explicit death threats, with repeated property damage and animal harm, despite restraining orders and police involvement.
fromSan Jose Inside
2 months ago

Sex Abuse, Satanic Rites Described in Charges against Gilroy Foster Mom

Court documents refer to the victim as "Jack Doe," who told investigators Johnson punched his "weanie" and subjected him to digital penetration at least 20 times between Jan. 1, 2023 and Oct. 4, 2024. Doe told police his foster mother was "evil" and forced him to watch "creepy, weird sex" on TikTok during the sexual abuse. He also said his foster mother took him to a basement with candles, prayed to the devil and blew smoke on him-leading the 7-year-old to believe he was "possessed."
California
US news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

Alleged stalking suspect ambushed Pennsylvania police officers, killing 3

A 24-year-old suspected stalker ambushed officers with an AR-15-type rifle, killing three detectives and wounding others before being killed in a gunfight.
#domestic-violence
California
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

Authorities arrest Millbrae man suspected of stalking, throwing gasoline on woman

A 59-year-old Millbrae man was arrested on suspicion of two-year stalking and alleged gasoline assault on a woman in San Mateo County.
#cyberbullying
fromCbsnews
3 months ago

Women who experienced stalking or obtained restraining orders have higher risk of heart disease, study finds

It got worse, she says, when she tried to leave. "You just don't know if you can sustain living that way," said Dosanjh, who then chose to get an order of protection against her then-husband. The toll on her health started to show. "I had abnormal stress tests," Dosanjh said. "I had to have a cardiac catheterization." And she's not alone according to a study released last month by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Public health
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
3 months ago

4 Cognitive Distortions in Netflix's "High School Catfish"

Perpetrators adopt cognitive distortions—minimisation, rationalisation, externalising blame—to justify harmful online stalking and deny responsibility, illustrated by a high-school catfish case.
fromIndependent
3 months ago

'Appalling' stalker escapes jail after installing covert camera in his ex-wife's home

The stalking was uncovered when his ex-wife found a tracking device attached to her car She later noticed a strange plug behind her TV linked to an Amazon device and realised it was part of a covert surveillance system A man whose "appalling behaviour" saw him cable-tie a tracking device to his wife's car and install a covert camera in her home during a two-month stalking campaign escaped jail today.
UK news
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

Borderline review Raymond Nicholson shines as a deranged fan in comedy thriller

Paul Duerson (Raymond Nicholson) has got it bad for world famous pop star and actor Sofia (Samara Weaving). It being the 1990s, he doesn't have the option of simply being creepy on social media; instead, he takes her hostage and attempts to marry her, as you do, in a period-comedy-horror-thriller that is entertaining enough moment-to-moment, but doesn't add up anything very substantial overall.
Film
fromsfist.com
3 months ago

Oiled-Up Castro Creeper Who Exposed Himself to Girls Convicted, Faces Possible Five-Year Sentence

It was in late January when we learned that parents in the Castro neighborhood had called the police over a nude man who had been seen touching himself inappropriately in the vicinity of teen girls. The man, later identified as 35-year-old Michael Watson, turned out to be a convicted sex offender with a 2020 conviction for indcent exposure, and a listing on the state's Megan's Law website. He was arrested in early February.
San Francisco
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

Obsession, blackmail and Instagram: inside Lurker, the year's most compelling thriller

If Tom Ripley lived in LA in 2018 and was really into lo-fi bedroom pop, he might look something like the main character of Lurker. The debut feature from Alex Russell, The Bear and Beef writer-producer, is an elegantly creepy thriller about one super-fan's scheme to become close to his musical idol, transposing Patricia Highsmith's two-man theme into a murkier grey territory, with parasitic attachment giving way to co-dependence that blooms into something that looks like a twisted kind of love.
Film
fromABC7 Los Angeles
3 months ago

TV show 'You' inspired true crime case highlighted in ABC's docu-series 'Stalking Samantha'

Stites filed for a personal protection order, which held up for six years. But when that order expired, filing a new one proved difficult, as the court required a hearing with both parties present.
Social justice
fromARTVOICE
4 months ago

Emailgate: Staten Island DA McMahon Suffers Selective Amnesia, Forgets Decade-Long Feud with Luthmann - ARTVOICE

McMahon alleged that Luthmann committed a felony violation of a criminal protective order when Substack sent out a July 13 newsletter from Luthmann's account.
US politics
London politics
fromwww.standard.co.uk
4 months ago

Stalker once dubbed 'London's most dangerous woman' jailed for campaign to destroy ex-diplomat

Farah Damji was sentenced to six years for stalking a former diplomat and engaging in a malicious campaign against him.
fromwww.ocregister.com
5 months ago

2 men accused of violently stalking California family

Beginning in March 2024, a woman identified in court documents as Victim 1 and her family member, Victim 2, began receiving threatening phone calls and text messages demanding $150,000 and warning they were not safe.
US politics
Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 months ago

To Catch a Stalker review a charity tells one woman to abandon her toddler and flee

Stalking remains a pervasive issue, traumatizing survivors and affecting their mental health long after legal actions against perpetrators.
Women
fromIndependent
5 months ago

To Catch a Stalker review: Women reveal the threat they live under in bone-chilling BBC documentary

Women in the UK experience anxiety and fear during routine activities due to stalking.
Podcast
fromSlate Magazine
5 months ago

Baywatch Made Me World Famous. My Stalker Stole My Privacy.

Alexandra Paul faced a decade of stalking by a fan, leading to significant personal and legal challenges.
fromBoston.com
5 months ago

Wisconsin couple charged in scheme to poison women man had dated

An investigation uncovered a plot by Paul VanDuyne Jr. and Andrea Whitaker to poison two women he had dated, employing cyanide and thallium in their schemes.
US news
#brooklyn
fromNew York Post
5 months ago
Brooklyn

Crazed stalker allegedly stabs two good Samaritans walking NYC woman who thought she was being followed home

fromNew York Post
5 months ago
Brooklyn

Crazed stalker allegedly stabs two good Samaritans walking NYC woman who thought she was being followed home

#mental-health
US news
fromLos Angeles Times
6 months ago

Two foreign nationals charged with stalking a Los Angeles artist who criticized Xi Jinping

Two foreign nationals were charged with stalking a U.S. artist critical of Chinese President Xi Jinping, revealing efforts to suppress free speech.
Boston food
fromBoston.com
6 months ago

Former CEO of N.H. addiction treatment centers arrested for allegedly leading plot to stalk, harass journalists

Eric Spofford was indicted for conspiring to stalk NHPR journalists in retaliation for a published article detailing misconduct allegations against him.
#jennifer-aniston
fromLos Angeles Times
7 months ago
Los Angeles

Jennifer Aniston stalker crashed car into her gate, faces felony charges, officials say

A man faces felony charges for allegedly stalking and harassing Jennifer Aniston over two years, culminating in a gate crash incident.
fromABC7 San Francisco
7 months ago
Los Angeles

Stalking, vandalism charges after crash outside Jennifer Aniston's home

A man was charged with stalking and vandalism after crashing a car into Jennifer Aniston's property.
Los Angeles
fromABC7 Los Angeles
6 months ago

Man charged with stalking Jennifer Aniston found mentally incompetent for trial

The man accused of stalking Jennifer Aniston has been deemed mentally incompetent for trial but requested a second opinion.
UK news
fromwww.independent.co.uk
6 months ago

Obsessed stalker threatened to kidnap social media influencer who he followed to Bali

A man was convicted of stalking a social media influencer, sending threats and traveling to Bali to pursue her.
Los Angeles Rams
fromLos Angeles Times
7 months ago

Ex-Rams star Aaron Donald granted restraining order against woman who claims she's his wife

Aaron Donald secured a five-year restraining order against a woman who reportedly stalked him and threatened his family.
fromwww.theguardian.com
7 months ago

Eminem stalker reconvicted after third home invasion in six years

Eminem testified about his terrifying experience with Matthew Hughes, who broke into his home twice, leading to the latter's conviction of first-degree home invasion and aggravated stalking.
Law
Los Angeles
fromABC7 New York
7 months ago

Suspect ID'd, booked after crashing car through gate at Jennifer Aniston's Bel Air home, police say

A man has been booked for felony vandalism after crashing his vehicle into Jennifer Aniston's home gate.
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