S2 / E54 The Road To Survival: Helena Jayne Bryant

Strictly Stalking

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🗓️ 26 January 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Helena Jayne Bryant became a big rig truck driver to escape her stalker of thirteen years. After having a brief fling, Helena immediately began getting strange calls, notes on her car, and items left on her back porch when she wasn't home. She discovered that this man broke into her house while she and her daughter were sleeping and secretly planted a recording device in her bathroom. She and her daughter moved over one-thousand miles away but he still followed her, so she hit the road in a semi to finally get away from him. Her case attracted the attention of the FBI and her story became the basis for her book, 'Blue Moon, Rare Fire: The Extraordinary True Story of a Woman's Rise When Darkness Fell.' Check Out Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/strictlystalking Instagram: Strictly Stalking - @strictlystalkingpod Jaimie Beebe - @feathergirl77 Jake Deptula - @jaked3000 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Anyone who learns how to drive a semi in order to escape her stalker is a true warrior.
0:04.7	Right, but even though she did all that, he still found her.
0:07.1	But that was the only way she could escape him from months at a time.
0:09.8	I mean, so this should have lived like that, but at least she was able to figure out a way to live like that.
0:14.9	All I could have asked myself is, is why would anyone stalk me? I'm not rich, I'm not famous,
0:23.4	I'm not particularly interesting or beautiful. I'm a broke single mom. Why would anyone be stalking me?
0:33.2	And because I couldn't answer that question, I just ignored all the signs. Well then no one is stalking me.
0:40.0	I'm Jamie Beebe. And I'm Jake Debtula. On today's episode of Strictly Stalking, we're chatting with
0:54.3	author Helena Jane, who was terrorized by her stalker for over 13 years. Helena met a tall, dark
0:59.6	and handsome man while dancing in a nightclub. They had a brief fling and although he wanted something
1:04.1	more, Helena made it clear that she didn't have time for a boyfriend. She immediately began getting
1:08.6	strange calls, notes on her car and items being left on her back porch when she wasn't home.
1:13.3	He then broke into her house and while she and her daughter were sleeping, he secretly planted a
1:17.4	recording device in her bathroom to film both her and her daughter. She moved over a thousand miles
1:21.9	away, but he still followed her. Her case eventually attracted the attention of the FBI.
1:26.8	Now Helena's here to share her journey, which is the basis for her book, Blue Moon Rare Fire,
1:31.2	the extraordinary true story of a woman's rise when darkness fell. Helena, thank you for joining us
1:35.9	today. Thank you so much for having me. Absolutely. Where did you grow up? I grew up in Ohio,
1:43.4	in Columbus, Ohio. What was that like? I grew up in a wonderful community, a wonderful family.
1:51.0	We were close. We still are close. It was a very safe upbringing. I would call us upper middle class.
1:58.4	We really didn't want for anything. We had plenty of Christmas presents under the tree and
2:07.3	nice big, hearty home-cooked meals. We oftentimes took road trips in the summer to the ocean.
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