This episode contains graphic language and descriptions of sexual violence that some listeners may find disturbing.

There's a saying that good fences make good neighbors.

Well, tell that to Erica Wenzel.

She had a good fence, but the kind of neighbor nobody would ever want. From the day she moved onto

Rostock Circle in Palm Bay, Florida, she knew something was off about the man who lived next

door.

This guy goes, this is next level creep.

This is next level and it was definitely, okay, I don't, I don't like this feeling. I need to kind of get out of this house.

This was Erica's dream house when she and her husband bought it in 2019.

It's in a neighborhood of single family homes homes with tidy yards, safe and peaceful.

Literally, this house was exactly what we were looking for when we were envisioning buying a house, which is why we ultimately decided to buy it even notwithstanding

with him next door.

Next door was the eyesore of the street, overgrown, cluttered, neglected.

Her neighbor was Robert Eugene Kohler, an imposing older man over six feet tall and 220 pounds.

Erica says that from the start her family was unnerved by Kohler's behavior.

He was volatile, Erica says, confrontational and paranoid.

He had cameras mounted all over his property.

That was one thing that really did bother me

was that he had so many cameras and that they all

seem to be pointed at our house which was unnerving.

Erica says her testy neighbor obsessed over minor disputes. Once he complained that a light on her property was too bright because it interfered with his cameras.

Some of their confrontations got heated.

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