Happy New Year crime, Genkies.

I'm your host, Ashley Flowers.

And I'm Britt.

And the story I have for you today is one that I wanted to tell in January for stalking

awareness month.

It's about a woman who was stalked for over 20 years.

But because stalking is so widely misunderstood, she wasn't even sure if what she was experiencing

was even a crime.

And by the time it escalated into something even more dangerous, the measures put in place

to protect her life were too little too late.

Now before we dive in, I do want to provide a bit of a disclaimer.

The crime that I'm going to be talking about in this week's episode happened between

the early 1980s and 2005.

However, the perpetrator in this case has more recently come out as a transgender woman.

Now, we always try and tell these stories in real time like how it happened in the moment

for the victim, for their loved ones or for investigators.

But we are also really mindful of the struggles of the transgender community that they face

every single day, especially in the media.

So although we're going to be telling the story as it unfolded, we will be using gender

neutral pronouns when referencing this person to avoid using her dead name as much as possible.

And if the term dead name is totally new to you or you're suddenly realizing that maybe

you don't know as much as you'd like to about the issue facing transgender people, we're

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