S1 / E14 False Victim: Stalking Kathie Truitt

Strictly Stalking

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True Crime, Talk Radio

4.2 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Kathie Truitt almost went to prison after being falsely accused of trying to kill her stalker neighbor. After moving into a seemingly quiet suburban neighborhood, Kathie and her family are stalked by a "crazy neighbor lady" who makes up strange lies about Kathie and even begins to dress like her. Her neighbor lies to authorities and has Kathie charged with attempted murder of which she is later acquitted. Kathie's book entitled, 'False Victim', is the basis for the Lifetime Movie 'The Neighbor in the Window', starring Jamie-Lynn Sigler. If you enjoy Strictly Stalking and the work that we're doing to draw attention to this important issue, please leave us a review in iTunes! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	We had a big, like probably a three-four-foot gap in our fence that we couldn't connect.
0:08.6	And she stood in that space every single night.
0:12.3	She stood there and she videotaped into our yard and into our house.
0:30.0	I'm Jamie Bevy.
0:33.0	And I'm Jake Tiptula.
0:36.0	On today's episode of Strictly Stalking, we're chatting with Kathy Truitt.
0:39.2	She's the author best known for her semi-autobiographical novel, False Victim.
0:44.0	Her book recounts how she almost did prison time for attempted murder after her stalker
0:47.8	neighbor falsely accused Kathy of trying to kill her.
0:51.8	Her story was made into the lifetime movie The Neighbor in the Windows starring Jamie
0:55.0	Lynn Seagler.
0:56.0	Kathy, thank you for joining us today.
1:00.0	Hi, thanks for having me.
1:02.4	So why don't you start off and just kind of tell us a little bit about yourself?
1:07.7	Okay, so I am with my husband of 38 years.
1:12.9	And we live in a little town outside of Dallas called Rallette, Texas.
1:17.6	And we were high school sweethearts and grew up and decided we wanted to see the world.
1:23.5	So we did.
1:24.5	We ended up in Washington, DC.
1:26.3	And then that is where I met my stalker.
1:31.3	How did the stalking begin?
1:32.7	Tell me about moving in and meeting your stalker and what exactly happened?
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