8 Scariest Stalkers Ever

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4 – Twitter Fan Threatens to Kill Ellen Page,

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  • While harassment is par for the course with celebrities, the relentless online abuse actress Ellen Page received took things to the next level.
  • In 2012, at the height of her fame, Ellen started receiving messages on Twitter like, ‘I’m going to murder Ellen Page. She’s dead.’ and the oddly specific ‘Ellen Page, if you continue to date Alexander Skarsgard I will K-1-L-L you in public in the next year … Be it in a club, in a restaurant, or when you’re signing autographs’.
  • The abuse got so bad that Ellen skipped the première of her latest movie. She was urged to take out a restraining order while police investigated the source of the threats.

3 – Stalker Shoots President to Impress Girl,

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  • In 1980, John Hinckley Jr. deliberately enrolled at Yale University to stalk actress Jodie Foster, who was taking a break from acting to pursue her education. Hinckley left her love notes, poems and just generally conducted himself with maximum creepiness.
  • On March 30th of that same year, Hinckley left the object of his desire a note explaining that he would win her love by assassinating US President Ronald Reagan. Later that day, Casanova drove to Washington DC, where, true to his word, he shot the president and several members of the presidential entourage.
  • Reagan survived the attack, and Hinckley was institutionalised.

2 – Woman Stalks Letterman for Ten Years,

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  • Schizophrenia sufferer Margaret Mary Ray was so obsessed with American talk show personality David Letterman that she stalked him – for an entire decade.
  • Margaret’s warped perspective caused her to believe Letterman was her husband. She was arrested multiple times for breaking into his home, taking his car on joyrides and leaving strange gifts for him to find. Taking pity on her, Letterman often refused to press charges against her and made light of the situation by joking about her on his show.
  • After a brief imprisonment, Margaret then turned her attention to retired astronaut Story Musgrave, who also pressed charges against her. Saddened by the constant rejection and overwhelmed by her own mental illness, Margaret Mary Ray killed herself in 1998 by kneeling before an oncoming train.

1 – Sixty-Year-Old Paedophile Stalks Teenage Girl,

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  • Laura Dekker was just sixteen years old when she set the world record for being the youngest sailor to complete a solo journey around the world in 2012. Her remarkable achievement brought fame and adulation – but it also brought fame’s sinister dark side in the form of a sixty-year-old paedophilic stalker.
  • Gerard W. was found to be in possession of pornographic images of children. For over a year, he sent Laura harassing emails and doctored a fake, nude photo of her. He was a known predator who hung around public swimming pools and was present when Laura first set sail on her record-breaking voyage.
  • Gerard eventually turned himself in to authorities and served time in prison.

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