#7 - Jacqueline Ades 31-year-old Jacqueline Ades of Phoenix, Arizona,
was found guilty of stalking a man with whom she’d only gone on one date.
The unidentified victim told the police that Ades had sent him a total of 159,000 messages
over the course of less than a year, some of which were violent in nature.
Ades found the man on the exclusive millionaire dating app Luxy.
He was a businessman who served as the CEO of a successful company in Paradise Valley.
Ades, a beautician, had gone out with him once in the summer of 2017, after which he
decided not to pursue a second date with her.
The woman proceeded to stalk him for the next 10 months, inundating him with text messages,
and even showing up outside his house on one occasion, in July of 2017.
The man called the police following her appearance at his residence, but she didn’t stop harassing
him, and even returned to his home a few months later.
It wasn’t until May of 2018 that Ades’ extensive stalking was brought to its overdue
conclusion.
She was arrested by Paradise Valley police after being found bathing in the man’s tub.
Law enforcement also discovered a large butcher knife in the passenger seat of her car.
Ades would reportedly send the subject of her obsession more than 500 messages on some
days and, in many of them, threatened to kill him, going so far as to call herself the “new
Hitler”.
The criminal charges against her were eventually dropped after she was found to be mentally
incompetent and non-restorable.
Her court-appointed attorney revealed her plans to move to Florida and seek treatment
for her mental illness.
She was permanently prohibited from making any form of contact with the man she was found
guilty of stalking.
#6 - Jeremy Kelley A stalker killed his ex-girlfriend and then
took his own life, just nine days after a warrant had been issued for his arrest.
Jeremy Kelley and Rosemarie Reilly, a pair of 21-year-olds from Ottawa County, Michigan,
had shared a contentious relationship leading up to the event that ultimately resulted in
both their deaths.
After they’d already broken up, Reilly, a student at Grand Valley State University,
filed a restraining order against her ex-boyfriend, which did little to stop him from stalking
and threatening her on multiple occasions.
Reilly notified local law enforcement that she’d been beaten and held at gunpoint by
Kelley, also reporting that he’d then started following her around.
Despite having knowledge of the assault and the ensuing stalking, the police didn’t
take Kelley into custody.
On November the 6th of 2016, he arrived at the Eastown residence belonging to one of
Reilly’s friends, at which his ex-girlfriend was staying the night.
He allegedly dragged Reilly outside by her hair, in the middle of the night.
When she tried to get back inside the house, he fired multiple 9mm rounds at her, killing
her instantly.
He then turned the gun on himself.
In the incident’s aftermath, Reilly’s family took legal action against campus police
and Ottawa County sheriff’s deputies, claiming they’d failed to properly protect the victim
prior to her murder.
The lawsuit also alleged that the warrant for Kelley’s arrest hadn’t been executed
in a timely manner because his father was a police officer.
The lawsuit was dismissed by a federal judge in September of 2020.
#5 - Erica Capps In the fall of 2017, a Florida woman was found
guilty of stalking her ex-boyfriend and planting a tracking device on his car.
Erica Capps, of Sanford, had reportedly stalked the man, with whom she shared a child, for
two months prior to her eventual arrest.
The first incident occurred on September the 19th when Capps showed up at the Altamonte
Springs home belonging to one of the victim’s friends.
She sent him a text message demanding he come outside.
When he obliged, Capps began to berate him for allegedly going to visit a female friend’s
house.
The exact same situation was reported a month later at a friend’s home in Maitland, and
then again at a Best Buy in Sanford.
On November the 8th, the victim saw Capps approaching him at a Walgreens, at which point
he promptly left the store.
As the man would later tell the police, he began receiving messages from Capps with pictures
of locations he’d recently visited.
He became increasingly suspicious as to how his ex-girlfriend so often knew of his exact
whereabouts.
It was then that the victim found a GPS tracking device on the underside of his vehicle and
got in touch with local authorities.
Capps was arrested and charged with stalking, but she was granted release upon the condition
that she ceased all forms of contact with her ex-boyfriend.
#4 - Luay Nader Sako A 23-year-old woman was stabbed to death inside
her Melbourne home, in 2020, by a former colleague who’d been stalking her for months.
Celeste Manno had worked with Luay Nader Sako, aged 35, at a call center in South Morang
before the latter was fired from his position in 2019.
Manno, who’d been Sako’s team leader, tried to comfort him following his termination.
According to police, the man subsequently stalked his former co-worker for nearly a
year after his employment at the call center had ended.
He sent her more than 150 messages on social media, prompting Manno to take out an interim
intervention order against him.
Sako was soon charged with breaching the order, but he was allowed to walk free.
The man’s obsession with Manno came to a bloody culmination on November the 14th of
2020.
In the early morning hours, Sako broke into the home that belonged to the victim and her
family.
Manno was asleep in her bed when Sako fatally stabbed her.
He was arrested and charged with the murder, but sought to circumvent jail time by having
a medical professional declare him mentally unstable.
Following an inconclusive assessment of his mental state, Sako requested a second opinion
in October of 2021.
A pronouncement in that regard is pending but his lawyer had previously stated that
Sako had no history of mental illness.
#3 - Charles Dean Bryant In 2016, a man with a known history of stalking
women was found guilty of the brutal murder of Jacqueline Vandagriff, aged 24.
Local authorities in Grapevine, Texas, first became aware of the situation at roughly 6:30
on the morning of September the 14th.
Firefighters responded to reports of a forest fire in Acorn Woods Park.
Vandagriff’s dismembered corpse was discovered at the scene, inside a plastic kiddie pool.
The perpetrator had reportedly set her remains ablaze with an accelerant and subsequently
fled the scene, although witnesses did tell police that they’d seen a man standing over
the fire around the time it was started.
It soon emerged that Vandagriff had met 30-year-old Charles Dean Bryant at the Fry Street Public
House, in Denton, on the night before her death.
Surveillance footage taken from a nearby Walmart revealed that Bryant had purchased a shovel
earlier that day.
Consequently, Grapevine police obtained a search warrant for the man’s house, where
they found the victim’s purse inside his trash.
There was also a kiddie pool in his backyard that looked exactly like the one found at
the crime scene.
Bryant’s roommate told detectives that there had previously been two plastic pools in the
backyard.
Bryant was then arrested and charged with Vandagriff’s murder.
The incident took place a mere four days after he’d been released from jail, where he’d
been detained on charges of stalking his ex-girlfriend.
It was speculated that Bryant had targeted Vandagriff specifically because she bore a
close resemblance to the woman he’d been stalking.
The killer will spend the rest of his days behind bars, having been sentenced to life
in prison plus 20 years.
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#2 - Stanley Szeliga In 2021, an exotic dancer from Fort Worth,
Texas was fatally shot while behind the wheel of a moving vehicle by a 54-year-old man who
had been stalking and blackmailing her.
The murder of Abby Saldana, aged 22, was carried out by Stanley Szeliga, a regular customer
at Rick’s Cabaret, the club where the victim worked.
Surveillance cameras near the woman’s apartment complex had captured Szeliga’s pickup truck
in the area at least five times within a 12-day span, indicating that he’d been stalking
her in the weeks preceding the eventual shooting.
Saldana also discovered a tracking device that had been planted underneath her car,
less than two weeks prior to her death.
Szeliga had been visiting her at Rick’s Cabaret on a regular basis, and according
to police reports, he’d threatened to publicly reveal the illicit escort services that she’d
allegedly provided him.
At about 9 pm on October the 26th of 2021, witnesses reported seeing a car speeding down
the roadway near the entrance to the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
The vehicle then hurtled off the side of the exit ramp and crashed into the grassy area
off the side of the road.
The driver was identified as Saldana.
She was pronounced dead at the scene after sustaining gunshot injuries to her back and
arm.
Investigators spoke with the owner of Rick’s Cabaret and learned that Szeliga had been
stalking Saldana for some time, and that she’d feared for her life.
A SWAT unit arrived at Szeliga’s residence, just before midnight, on October the 27th.
They entered the home to find the man on his balcony with multiple self-inflicted cuts
to his arm.
While being treated for his wounds, he was arrested and charged with Saldana’s murder,
having shot the woman from his own vehicle as he followed closely behind her.
#1 - Michael Lane Leading up to her murder, on August the 25th
of 2016, Shana Grice, aged 19, had pleaded with police to take action against her alleged
stalker on several occasions.
The victim had become romantically involved with 27-year-old Michael Lane in 2015, when
the two worked together in Brighton, England.
The man allegedly became obsessed with Grice, who eventually returned to a former boyfriend
of hers after ending her relationship with Lane.
Following the breakup, Lane reportedly told a friend, “She’ll pay for what she’s
done”.
He subsequently placed a tracking device on Grice’s vehicle and began stalking her.
Members of Sussex law enforcement were first informed of the situation in February of 2016
after Grice complained about Lane sending her unwanted flowers and inflicting damage
to her car.
Over the course of the next 6 months, the police were notified of three additional incidents
in which Lane had stalked or assaulted his ex-girlfriend.
Officers found that Grice’s claims didn’t warrant further investigation, and she was
issued a penalty notice for wasting the police’s time.
A few weeks before her death, Grice noticed Lane loitering outside her residence, but
opted not to report him to the police for fear of receiving another fine.
On August the 25th, Lane broke into Grice’s home, slit her throat, and set fire to her
bedroom.
The teenager’s dead body was found by her boyfriend’s father.
Lane was arrested at his place of work later that same day.
After a two week trial, the stalker-turned-killer was sentenced to life in prison.
Three Sussex police officers faced disciplinary action for their failure to properly investigate
Grice’s claims against Lane.
The victim’s parents publicly expressed their belief that their daughter would have
still been alive had law enforcement officials adequately performed their duties.
A documentary centering on Grice’s tragic and arguably preventable demise was broadcast
on British television in March of 2021.
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