Sending her letter after letter, the actress lived in fear for her life.
The house was built in 1905 and remodeled in 2014.
Various families inhabited the house throughout the decades.
The first asked, Why are you here?
I will find out.
Each letter was signed The Watcher.
The house in Westfield, New Jersey. (YouTube)
The letters would poured in each one more and more disturbing.
I asked the Woods (prior owners) to bring me young blood.
and, in time they will.
Tatiana Tarasoff and Prosenjit Poddar (YouTube)
The watcher asked the family, have you found all the secrets it (the house) holds?
The case was thrown out by a judge on October 18 of this year.
To this day, the identity of The Watcher remains unknown.
Arthur Richard Jackson and Theresa Saldana. (YouTube/Wikipedia)
As of October of 2017, the house is once again on the market.
In 1968 18-year-old Tatiana Tarasoff befriended a fellow student at the University of California-Berkeley, Prosenjit Poddar from India.
After meeting at a folk dancing class on campus the two got together and hung out regularly.
Robert John Brado and Rebecca Schaeffer (Wikipedia/Wikipedia)
They shared a friendly kiss at a New Years Eve party and dated briefly.
His mental health continued to down spiral throughout the spring and summer of 1969.
During this time Tarasoff and Poddar occasionally saw each other.
Richard Farley (Wikipedia)
He had been keeping a journal detailing every interaction he ever had with her since they met.
He would later begin stalking her and trying to change her mind.
Tatiana left the states later in the summer of 1969 to embark on a trip to Brazil.
Ming Sen Shiue (YouTube)
During this time Poddar sought professional help with psychologist Dr. Lawrence Moore at a campus mental health clinic.
Poddar then stopped showing up to treatment.
He was detained but shortly released, thereafter.
Lisa Michelle Lambert (YouTube)
Dr. Powelson, Moores psychiatric supervisor, ordered he not be detained further.
He showed up to Tatianas home and shot her with a pellet gun before stabbing her 14 times.
His second-degree murder conviction was later overturned on grounds that the jury at his trial was not properly instructed.
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Poddar wasnt retried, and after serving only 5 years in prison he was deported back to India.
33 states have adopted Tarasoff laws since.
Once in the U.S., Jackson hired a private investigator to obtain whatever information he could on Saldana.
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He claimed to need to reach Theresa to discuss a possible film role.
Saldanas mother provided him with her residential address and there he waited outside for the West Hollywood actress.
Jackson was convicted of attempted murder and given a 12-year sentence.
Sending her letter after letter, the actress lived in fear for her life.
She lobbied for the 1990 anti-stalking law and later on went on to support the Drivers Privacy Protection Act .
He was turned away more than once by security while trying to gain access to Rebecca.
He decided that she needed to be punished and called her another Hollywood whore.
He traveled to Los Angeles and upon hiring a private investigator, obtained her address.
It was as simple and as easy as a mere $250 to a P.I.
He buzzed Rebeccas apartment.
She politely asked him to leave and not come back to her private home again.
He was later arrested and confessed to the murder, receiving life in prison without the possibility of parole.
This case led to the Drivers Privacy Protection Act, which actress Theresa Saldana also lobbied for.
This case of stalking ended in mass murder.
According to him, it was love at first-sight.
He told her he would continue to ask her out until she accepted or until the day he died.
The letters, the gifts, and the advances continued.
He also adopted a habit of following her around in his car and showing up at her home.
She was forced to move several times because of his ongoing stalking and harassment.
Over these 4 years she had received 200 letters from Farley.
The stalking and the showing up at places she frequented reached an unsettling point.
She went to Human Resources to file a complaint against Farley.
He was ordered to not only stay away from Laura, but to also attend counseling sessions.
The disturbing obsession and stalking did not stop and he continued terrorizing Laura Black with increasing, threatening behavior.
He was fired from ESL by summer of 1986, but his stalking and obsession continued.
In February of 1988 Laura filed a temporary restraining order against Farley.
He shot his first victim in the parking lot and entered the building shooting his way in.
He shot several people, killing 7 and injuring others, before arriving at Lauras office.
Farley was found guilty on seven counts of first degree murder and was sentenced to death.
While in prison he wrote to Laura one final time.
He currently sits on death row in San Quentin.
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In 1980, he learned of her whereabouts in Bethel University campus and began to stalk her for months.
He kept both mother and daughter captive at his home for nearly two months.
While prisoner of Shiue, Stauffer was repeatedly raped and assaulted.
Shiue recorded and kept many videotapes of his attacks on Mary, in many she is tied and bound.
He was arrested at work that same day.
Yunkin and Lisa Michelle Lambert, who became pregnant with his child, got back together shortly after.
She devoted herself to stalking and harassing her.
Lauries mother, Hazel, attempted to file charges against Lambert, but this did nothing to stop her.
The phone call was a ruse to leave Laurie vulnerable and alone, and an impersonation by Lambert.
Hazel returned home to discover her daughter agonizing as she bled out.
He received a lesser sentence for his testimony.
Lambert and Buck both received a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
Gary Dellapenta became besotted with young woman, Randi Barber, in California in 1996.
Dellapenta went as far as joining her church.
Dellapenta was banned from congregation.
He even took it upon himself to place ads in her name in various sex-related chatrooms.
Im into rape fantasy and gang-bang fantasy too, he wrote in one of his earliest ads.
Dellapenta included the womans address in these ads.
He had created a fake email address using Barbers name for contact with any men responding to the ad.
He even provided instructions on how to break into her home and how to disarm her security system.
As he still spent his time stalking Randi, he would give details on her schedule and social plans.
Randi Barber received numerous unsettling and obscene phone calls regarding these ads, many with dirty solicitations.
She eventually resorted to placing notes on her door saying the ads were false to turn men away.
It was verified not only that all emails came from Dellapentas computer after going through his hard-drive.
In 1999 he became the first person to be charged under this new statute.
Marchese became infatuated with the doctor after meeting him in 2001 while he treated her then partner.
She shortly after got a hold of his cell phone number, and his home and work numbers.
She began stalking him, calling him, writing him letters and sending him messages.
She would prey on the couple through texts, emails and phone calls, and spy on them.
Many included death threats to Pemberton, and sometimes to Falkowski himself.
