Elite Facts Presents
5 most terrifying stalkers ever
5.
Tatiana Tarasoff & Prosenjit Poddar
Back in 1968, laws didn't exist to protect people from stalking and sadly Tatiana suffered
the worst fate imaginable because of it.
She met Prosenjit Poddar at a NYE party and they shared a kiss, this prompted him to believe
they were madly in love and would live happy ever after.
This wasn't the case for Tatiana and Prosenjit took it hard.
In that summer, Tatiana went to visit Brazil and Prosenjit's spiral became greater.
He went to visit a psychologist several times and at one appointment he admitted he was
planning on killing her.
The doctor was stuck as law prohibited her from sharing that info even it would save
somebody.
Dr. Moore believed Prosenjit was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and informed the
campus police, but after police interviewed Prosenjit, they determined that he was not
dangerous and decided to let him go.
When Tatiana returned from Brazil, she was not informed about Prosenjit’s threats against
her.
On October 27, Prosenjit went to Tatiana’s house and shot her with a pellet gun before
stabbing her 14 times.
Prosenjit immediately turned himself in and was convicted of second-degree murder, but
his conviction was overturned because the jury at his trial was not properly instructed.
He was deported to India as a result.
4.
In 2002, Collette Dwyer was living through a terrible nightmare.
Dwyer became acquainted with Derrick Todd Lee, a customer who frequently hung around
her place of employment.
Lee soon developed an obsession with Dwyer
Lee forced his way into her apartment and began arguing with her, telling her he was
set to take care of her forever and love her eternally, she argued back and ended up calling
the cops.
Lee was charged with stalking and received probation, but soon went to prison for another
unrelated crime.
Two years later, Lee was released and started stalking Dwyer again.
Not long after that, Dwyer heard about the murder of a Baton Rouge woman named Charlotte
Murray Pace and became convinced Lee was responsible.
She notified the police, who investigated Lee, but didn’t bother to take his DNA
Dwyer contacted police again after the murder of a woman named Pam Kinamore, ultimately
there were 7 women killed that met the same motive and method as Pace was.
In May 2003, Lee was questioned for the rape of another woman and finally had his DNA taken.
The DNA linked him to the murders of the seven women and he was nicknamed “The Baton Rouge
Serial Killer.”
Lee was sentenced to death for his crimes and currently sits on death row at Louisiana
State Penitentiary
3.
Priyadarshini Mattoo was attending Delhi University when she drew the attention of another student
named Santosh Singh.
Throughout 1995, Santosh spent the year constantly stalking and harassing Priyadarshini until
she formally complained to the police.
They provided her with a personal security officer, but this failed to dissuade Santosh.
On January 23, 1996, Priyadarshini was murdered at her home in New Delhi.
She had been raped and her face had been repeatedly beaten with a motorcycle helmet before she
was strangled to death with a wire.
A witness had seen Santosh entering the house shortly before her death, so he was arrested
and charged with murder.
Because of the way the case was mishandled, the judge in charge was forced to give a not
guilty verdict despite remarking he believed he was the murderer.
This verdict was eventually appealed to the Delhi High Court, and in 2006, the decision
was reversed and Santosh was sentenced to death.
In 2010, the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
2.
Rebecca Schaeffer was best known for her role on the sitcom My Sister Sam and her film career
was starting to take off, as she was slated to audition for a role in The Godfather Part
III.
She had also drawn the attention of Robert John Bardo, an obsessed 19-year-old fan from
Tucson, Arizona who had built a personal shrine to Schaeffer in his room.
He sent numerous letters to Schaeffer and even made two attempts to visit her on the
set of My Sister Sam.
However, Bardo became horribly disappointed when he watched Schaeffer perform a sex scene
in one of her films and decided she needed to be “punished.”
He obtained Schaeffer’s home address through a private investigator and set forth to Los
Angeles.
Bardo buzzed Schaeffer's apartment and when she opened the door, Bardo pulled out a gun
and shot her to death.
Bardo returned to Tucson, but was quickly arrested after tipping off his sister about
the murder.
He wound up being charged with first-degree murder and received a life sentence.
This tragedy would ultimately lead to the enactment of stronger anti-stalking laws in
California.
1.
Richard Farley was a veteran employee at a defense contractor in California when Laura
Black was hired to work there, he instantly became obsessed with her.
He constantly asked Black out and left her gifts, but she always turned him down.Over
the next four years, Farley’s obsession with Black became very unsettling.
He wrote her over 200 letters and showed up at her residence so frequently that she was
forced to move several times.
Black finally went to ESL’s human resources department to complain about Farley, who was
ordered to attend counseling sessions and leave Black alone.
However, Farley’s behavior became even more threatening and ESL finally let him go in
May 1986.In spite of this, Farley’s harassment of Black did not come to an end and she would
file a temporary restraining order against him
Farley would continue to harass her and turned up at her house and would peer in through
her windows at strange times of the day and night.
The day before the harassment hearing
Farley drove his motor home to the ESL parking lot.
He had several different guns with him, along with over 1,000 rounds of ammunition.
After shooting his first victim in the parking lot, Farley proceeded into the ESL building
with all of his weapons and opened fire.
Farley shot several employees before arriving at Black’s office and shooting her twice.
Farley engaged the police in a five-hour standoff before he decided to surrender.
While Black survived, a total of seven employees lost their lives and three more were wounded.
He sits on death row awaiting his execution
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