Number 7 Christopher Anderson In September of 2021, Wisconsin man
Christopher Anderson, aged 30, was apprehended in connection to the killing of his girlfriend,
following a manhunt lasting several months. He and Hannah Miller, from Rhinelander, had been
in a relationship for a number of years but had separated leading up to the summer of that year.
On June the 2nd, 26-year-old Miller had contacted local police to report that Anderson had taken
her car and refused to give it back. She also expressed fears at the time that the man was
going to kill her. Anderson had asked friend and housemate Seth Wakefield to conduct surveillance
on Miller’s apartment and let him know when she was home, with the promise of payment for
his help. He’d allegedly shared with him plans of killing his ex and then fleeing with their
child. Miller’s body was found along the side of a road in Oneida County, on June the 30th.
Anderson was suspected of having gunned her down, reportedly relying on information that Wakefield
had provided him. A manhunt was launched for the suspected killer, during the course of which
the police arrested Wakefield and charged him with first degree intentional homicide,
with a party to a crime modifier. When asked why he hadn’t contacted the police upon learning of
the murder plot, he reportedly stated that "it wasn't any of his business”. Law enforcement
acted on a tip from a confidential informant and eventually tracked Anderson down to Carol Stream,
Illinois, where he was taken into custody on charges of first-degree murder. In late December,
he pleaded not guilty and a trial date was set for August of 2022.
Number 6 Heather Bamford and Dianna Divingnzzo In December of 2019, New Jersey woman Heather
Bamford, aged 33, sent her daughter off to spend time at the Hackettstown’s home of
her estranged husband, Dominic. The woman had previously gifted the child a stuffed
Minnie Mouse toy. On December the 15th, Dominic picked up the toy and pressed its mid-section,
expecting it to speak tis pre-assigned phrases. He then made a chilling discovery when what he heard
back was his daughter’s voice as well as his own. Heather had planted a listening device in the toy
to keep tabs on her husband. Dominic reported her to the authorities who arrested the woman on a
wiretap offense and harassment. The case mirrored one that had occurred over a decade prior,
in Omaha, Nebraska. At the time, Dianna Divingnzzo and her husband, William Lewton,
were in the midst of a bitter custody battle. The woman had bugged her 5-year-old daughter’s
ever-present teddy bear, in a misguided effort to secure evidence against her ex in custody case.
The man only became aware that he’d been monitored when Divingnzzo tried to use the recordings in
court. Her plan backfired dramatically when a judge deemed the tapes inadmissible, as they’d
been illegally obtained. The reveal also prompted Lewton to file a civil case against Divingnzzo,
along with five co-plaintiffs that included his fiancée, neighbor, friends and relatives,
all of whom had also been secretly recorded. There were hours of conversation, captured from December
of 2007 to May of 2008. A few years later, Divingnzzo and her father were ordered to pay
20,000$ to each of the plaintiffs for carrying out the illegal monitoring.
Number 5 John Hare A farmer from Seaham,
in County Durham, England, was jailed for five-and-a-half years at Newcastle Crown Court,
in the summer of 2022, after being convicted in the aftermath of an elaborate “James Bond
type fantasy”. 53-year-old John Hare, a married father, had lived a double life for several years,
while cheating on his wife. About six months into the relationship with this girlfriend,
whose identity wasn’t revealed, Hare told her that he was in the Secret Service. The man, who ran a
farm in County Durham, claimed that he’d suddenly have to leave and carry out covert operations
for the British government, when in reality he’d return to his spouse. Whenever Hare went out with
his paramour, he carried a prohibited .22 caliber pistol, which he’d bought online in the mid-2000s,
and kept hidden back at his farm, in the chicken coop. He explained that he had to bring the gun
along because he was afraid of being assassinated. The victim later described Hare as an expert
manipulator and had only begun to suspect he wasn’t being truthful about three years into
their relationship. On New Year’s Eve 2019, she decided to contact the Secret Service phone number
Hare had given her only to hear the man’s phone vibrate on the table. The farmer successfully made
an excuse. The façade was definitively brought down after a confrontation at Hare’s home,
in May of 2020. It was then that the man punched his girlfriend three times in the face, causing
her nose to bleed, and damaged her car wing mirror as she drove away. The woman called the police,
who took Hare into custody and also retrieved his firearm, after he’d confessed to possessing
it. His web of lies had been so intricately constructed that for two years, as the victim
waited for the case to go to trial, she lived in fear of reprisal from the Secret Service. She
ultimately accepted that their relationship had been a lie when the man was put behind bars after
being convicted of assault and criminal damage. Number 4 Stephen Ewart
During a stalking campaign of several months against his estranged wife, British IT
expert Stephen Ewart was accused of planting listening devices to monitor her conversations
and even hacking into foreign surveillance systems. In June of 2020, he’d moved out
of the family home in Washington, Tyne and Wear, after his 20-year-long marriage with 47-year-old
Deborah had begun falling apart. Stephen had become convinced that the council housing manager
was having an affair with a coworker. After leaving the home, in an attempt to win
his wife back, Stephen started texting her about the shows she was watching. Deborah
found his references oddly accurate but only became concerned after he’d messaged her about
a private conversation she’d had with a friend. The woman then contacted a tech-savvy acquaintance
and found a listening device connected to a SIM card behind her TV unit. Deborah also discovered
an IPhone linked to a battery in her car. Stephen accused her of having an affair outright
and then started following her about in his car and at her workplace. One of the most concerning
incidents was when Stephen texted Deborah a screenshot of her and their two daughters,
aged 17 and 22, while they were vacationing in Turkey. He’d asked one of their daughters to
speak to him from a location which had CCTV, then hacked into the camera to capture the
screenshot. The man eventually admitted stalking in court and was given a suspended sentence, along
with a three-year restraining order that involved electronic monitoring. Deborah denied ever having
an affair and, speaking on the impact the stalking had had on her, noted that she’d become paranoid
and was constantly looking over her shoulder. Number 3 X
In the spring of 2022, evidence came out that an unnamed MI5 agent had used his position in
the intelligence community to monitor, control and torment his girlfriend, codenamed as Beth.
One of the most disturbing pieces of evidence in that regard was a publicly-released clip of him
threatening to kill the woman and attacking her with a machete. The agent, codenamed X in the
British press, gradually revealed himself to be obsessed with cruelty and violence
over the course of their relationship. Aside from physically assaulting and abusing Beth,
X psychologically tortured her and forced her to watch gruesome videos of public executions.
He was also alleged to have spied on the woman and controlled virtually aspect of her life. As
reported by the BBC, the agent was arrested for the machete attack but never charged,
after the alleged intervention of the intelligence services. The BBC demanded to know his identity,
labeling him a clear danger to women, but the government reportedly took the corporation to
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us know in the comments section below. Number 2 Steven Brown
British man Steven Brown was arrested under stalking laws, in the spring of 2016, following
accusations that he’d planted GPS trackers on the vehicles of his wife and the man with whom
he suspected she was having an affair. 51-year-old Brown, the owner of a south London concrete firm,
believed that his estranged wife, Nichola, was cheating on him with her friend, firefighter
Mark Compton. The affair was eventually confirmed by those familiar with the married couple’s
situation. In addition to the trackers, Brown hired two private investigators to follow the pair
and take pictures of them. He also threatened his spouse and her lover via text messages and calls
over the three-month stalking period, starting in November of 2015. Following his arrest,
Brown pleaded guilty to stalking and, in addition to being handed a three-year restraining order,
he was sentenced to 16 weeks in prison, suspended for two years, and ordered to complete
200 hours unpaid work. Number 1 Ross Cairns
British electronics expert Ross Cairns was jailed for 11 months, in the summer of
2018, after his wife, Catherine, accused him of using their former matrimonial home to spy on
her. Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court was told that, through an app on his IPhone, the man
had accessed their smart house, in Hale, targeting systems designed to control the home’s lighting,
heating and security. He’d used a wall-mounted IPad, in the kitchen, to monitor Catherine’s
conversations, shortly after their separation. In one exchange that the woman had had with her
mother, she mentioned that she no longer loved Cairns. Shortly thereafter, the latter showed up
on Catherine’s doorstep, unannounced, and repeated fragments of the conversation she’d just had. The
woman recounted feeling threatened by his erratic behavior as he’d walked inside and told their two
children that he was moving back. She called the police who asked Cairns to clear the premises,
which he obliged. Additional reports of stalking and harassment included him
spitting at his former partner’s car and making a throat slitting gesture towards her. Cairns was
convicted of stalking but it was dropped on appeal after a judge deemed that his actions couldn’t be
proven to a criminal degree and that the evidence had been compromised due to the number of devices
discussed. However, by monitoring his wife, the man had been in breach of a previous suspended
sentence for fraud and theft, an aspect that ultimately resulted in him being given jail time.
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