Snapshot · Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
The Canadian caller's stalker was not a stranger but her close friend's husband, who also had the phone number of his own sister-in-law — one of the caller's high school friends he texted.
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The reveal is doubly disturbing: not only is the stalker the husband of a close friend, he's someone the caller has known since childhood — a person deeply embedded in her social circle. And the friend he had separately texted requesting photos? His own sister-in-law. Dax immediately wonders how many other women he was doing this to. The caller wanted to tell her friend, but logistics made it nearly impossible: the only proof involved her best friend's Instagram, and her best friend didn't want to be named. [1] — Alberta Caller "The stalker who had texted her from rotating numbers for nearly a year, monitored her location through social media, and requested explicit…" 22:35 Then the wife announced she was pregnant. The caller has avoided her friend since, unable to meet her eyes. The stalker turned up on her doorbell camera dropping off baby items. As of recording, the wife still doesn't know — 'until now, maybe,' the caller says, with the particular unease of someone who has just spoken her secret on a major podcast.
Dax notes that like most abuse and murder, stalking is generally committed by someone the victim already knows.
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