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And I just remember opening that last message and I immediately started crying because it was real and it was my life. Welcome to The Knife.

I'm Hannah Smith. I'm Hesha Eaton.

And this week we're speaking with Cassandra Rosa.

Cassandra has been the victim of a stalker for years now.

And the escalation of this stalker is both shocking and not because we know that stalkers can start to feel emboldened as time passes.

Yeah, we talk a lot on the show about how it's hard to catch and stop stalkers, practically and legally.

This story is no different, but it also highlights how wrong things can go

with an investigation and how a victim can start to look like the villain. Yeah, I mean,

Cassandra lives in a small New Mexico town, and we're not going to say the name of where she lives

because things became so contentious with her case.

As a warning, we do talk about text messages that Cassandra received, which are of a violent

and sexual nature. Let's get into the interview.

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