Every Breath You Take: The Stalking of Dr. Brennan

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 28 January 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Love, hate and obsession have always been pretty close relatives. Anybody who’s ever picked up a Harlequin romance novel or watched a ridiculous rom-com knows that we don’t really get the best guidance from society on how to manage our love lives. Some of us just kinda wing it until we figure it out. Some of us go from train wreck to train wreck, and some decide we’d rather skip the whole thing and focus on hobbies and pets and learning how to keep indoor plants alive. But then there are the ones who—so desperate to latch on to another person that they feel empty without it—weave an elaborate fantasy of the Perfect Love. And when they meet someone who seems to match the dream, they latch on. Even if it turns out that the object of their desire doesn’t want to be latched anymore. The more the dream-partner pulls away, the more feverish the fantasy becomes. And things can get dangerous, fast. Join us for the strange true story of Diane Schaefer, a woman whose obsession with a famous cancer doctor took over her life, and the lives of many others.

Sources:
Marie Brenner, "Erotomania: The Haunting of Dr. Brennan," Vanity Fair, Sept. 1991
The Village Voice: "Stalking the Stalkers" https://www.villagevoice.com/2001/07/03/stalking-the-stalkers/
Investigation Discovery's "Tabloid," episode "Love You to Death"
Lifetime, "Obsessed," 2002

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0:00.0	Hello campers, grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.
0:04.9	Wear your camp counselors, I'm Katie, and I'm Whitney.
0:08.4	And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction, or roasting
0:12.5	murderers and marshmallows around the true crime campfire.
0:23.3	Love, hate, and obsession have always been pretty close relatives.
0:26.6	Anybody who's ever picked up a Harlequin romance novel or watched a ridiculous rom-com
0:30.6	knows that we don't really get the best guidance from society on how to manage our love lives.
0:35.7	Some of us just kind of wing it until we figure it out.
0:38.7	Some of us go from train wreck to train wreck, and some decide we'd rather skip the whole
0:42.2	thing and focus on hobbies and pets and learn how to keep indoor plants alive.
0:46.9	But then there are the ones who, so desperate to latch onto another person that they feel
0:51.5	empty without it, weave an elaborate fantasy of the perfect love.
0:56.4	And when they meet someone who seems to match the dream, they latch on.
1:00.3	Even if it turns out that the object of their desire doesn't want to be latched anymore,
1:04.8	the more the dream partner pulls away, the more feverish the fantasy becomes, and things
1:09.2	can get dangerous, fast.
1:12.1	This is every breath you take, the stalking of Dr. Brennan.
1:29.7	So campers, for this one we're in New York, New York, Memorial Sloan-Cattering Hospital,
1:34.9	1988.
1:35.9	Oh yes, another tale from the good old shoulder pad 1180s y'all.
1:40.6	We know you love him.
1:42.2	Everybody was frantically trying to solve the Rubik's Cube, Madonna was all the rage, and
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