Protection Rejection: Do Restraining Orders Work?

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Dr. Phil McGraw

Mental Health, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

From romance to rage, adoration online to in-person obsession, this episode is a cautionary tale about stalking.

Stalking stories have captured the country’s attention with hugely popular shows that follow encounters that spark fixation but it’s not always fiction. We’ll explore the challenges victims often face seeking safeguards while living in fear of potential physical harm. Is a restraining or protective order just a piece of paper? Or a powerful first tool for the victim’s protection? We’ll get an inside look in the mind of stalkers/abusers. A handsome, young, fitness trainer is being stalked by a female stranger who tells us why she won’t stop. We’ll meet a woman who at just 18 ended a summer fling that drove the man to intense harassment and murder of a different woman and we’ll meet a father whose daughter was killed by her ex with an ax, despite a protective order.

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0:00.0	Seeking safeguards from stalkers,
0:02.5	the most dangerous time for many victims
0:04.8	is after they file for protective order.
0:07.6	Charles came to town looking for you and murders her.
0:10.2	Yes, he cut out her heart, cut off her face.
0:13.0	They're not taking you seriously.
0:14.6	The first officer I spoke to to laugh.
0:16.1	You're getting stalked.
0:16.9	An officer never resubmitted the warrant.
0:19.2	That's correct.
0:19.8	He walked into the house, struck up with the axe, and killed her.
0:33.4	Romance to rage, adoration online Online to In-Person Obsession.
0:38.5	Tonight, you'll hear cautionary tales as stories of infatuation have captured the country's
0:46.1	attention with Netflix shows like I Am a Stalker, You, and most recently Baby Raneer.
0:53.8	Now, many of these popular shows about fixation are not fiction.
0:58.2	Real-life tragedies highlight the challenges people face
1:02.0	when seeking safeguards from stalkers,
1:05.1	while living in fear of potential harm.
1:08.2	The most dangerous time for many victims
1:10.7	is after they file for
1:13.3	protective order. And studies found the violation rate was 40 to 50 percent. So the
1:21.6	question is, are courts protecting targets of these stalkers and how do they sort out the real threats
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