Samantha Stites shares a harrowing account of over ten years of stalking, which was exacerbated by her captor's obsession inspired by a fictional crime show. Her stalker persistently followed her throughout her daily life. After successfully obtaining a personal protection order that lasted six years, the expiration made it difficult to seek further legal protection due to court requirements for a hearing. Ultimately, she was kidnapped and held in a soundproof bunker before escaping. Stites emphasizes her vulnerability and the psychological terror inflicted by her abductor's imitation of a character from a TV show.
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.
I'm in this torture chamber. I see these soundproof patches on the wall, so no one's going to hear me scream.
He saw this stalker have this actual relationship with the women. So I think in a lot of ways, that kind of validated that he wasn't the only one.
I decided to not pursue that hearing, because I was scared that if they denied it even in person, that then, you know, he would get trickier or would be angry and try to hurt me.
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