Defining Stalking

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Defining Stalking

• Stalking creates uncertainty, instills fear, and
  can completely disrupt lives.
• It can involve severeeven lethalviolence.
• Stalking involves a pattern of overtly criminal
  and/or apparently innocent behavior that makes
  victims fear for themselves or others.
• Stalking is distinguishable from many other types
  of crime in two important ways.
• First, it entails repeat victimization of a
  person the offender targetsit is, by its very
  nature, a series of acts, rather than a single
  incident.
• Second, it is partly defined by its impact on
  the victim. While legal definitions of stalking
  vary from state to state, the following is a
  useful general definition
• A course of conduct directed at a specific
  person that would cause a reasonable person
  fear !
• National Center for Victims of Crime

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Prevalence and Nature of Stalking

• Stalking is widespread. Nearly one in 12 women
  and one in 45 men are stalked at least once in
  their lifetime.
• It is estimated that more than a million women
  and nearly half a million mean are stalked in the
  United States each year.
• The overwhelming majority (78 percent) of victims
  are women, and the majority of offenders (87
  percent) are men.
• Most victims know their stalkers. Even though we
  often hear reports of fans stalking celebrities,
  survey evidence indicates that fewer than a
  quarter of female victims and a third of male
  victims are stalked by strangers
• National Center for Victims of Crime

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Prevalence and Nature of Stalking Continue

• Nearly 60 percent of female victims and 30
  percent of male victims are stalked by current or
  former intimate partners.
• In intimate-partner cases, fewer than half of
  stalking incidents occur after the relationship
  ends.
• Most of the time, the stalking occurs during the
  relationship
• National Center for Victims of Crime

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Prevalence and Nature of Stalking Continue

• Stalking and domestic violence intersect in a
  variety of ways. Research indicates that 81
  percent of women stalked by an intimate have been
  physically assaulted by that person.
• Thirty-one percent of women stalked by an
  intimate have been sexually assaulted by that
  person.
• Offenders who stalk former intimate partners are
  more likely to have physically or sexually
  assaulted them before the relationship ended.
• National Center for Victims of Crime

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Prevalence and Nature of Stalking Continue

• Stalking is often a feature of relationships
  involving domestic violence. Like domestic
  violence, it is a crime of power and control. In
  one study about stalking and prestalking
  relationships, over 50 percent of the women were
• psychologically abused, 65 percent reported
  physical abuse, and 8.6 percent experienced
  sexual abuse during their relationship. If
  stalking is defined as a course of conduct that
  intimidates or frightens the victim, then
  relationships involving domestic violence also
  involve stalking. Both domestic violence and
  stalking are linked to lethal violence. Research
  has revealed that one-third of women killed each
  year in the United States die at the hands of a
  current or former intimate. It is estimated that
  25 to 35 percent of stalking cases involve
  violence. And when stalking leads to violence, it
  is often a precursor to lethal violence. Studies
  show that stalking precedes an exceedingly high
  proportion of homicides by intimates. In over 75
  percent of completed and attempted female
  homicides by intimates, the offenders stalked the
  victims in the year before the offense
• National Center for Victims of Crime

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Prevalence and Nature of Stalking Continue

• Victims report only about half of stalking
  incidents to the police. Generally, those who do
  not report do not think the matter is criminal,
  do not think the police can help them, or fear
  that reporting will make the stalker even more
  dangerous. Twenty percent of victims who reported
  stalking stated that the police did not act
  regarding their complaints. Other victims may not
  report incidents because they may minimize the
  risk a stalker poses or blame themselves for the
  stalker's behavior.
• National Center for Victims of Crime

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Stalking Behaviors

• Stalking, by definition, is not a one-time act
  but a course of conduct. It may involve a mix of
  patently criminal acts and acts that, in
  isolation, would seem nonthreatening. It is the
  pattern and context of these criminal and
  non-criminal acts that constitute stalking.
• Stalking often includes
• assaulting the victim, violating protective
  orders, sexually assaulting the victim,
• vandalizing the victim's property, burglarizing
  the victim's home or otherwise stealing from the
  victim, Sixty-nine percent of female and 81
  percent of male victims with protective orders
  reported that their stalkers had violated the
  order. threatening the victim, and killing the
  victim's pet (s).
• National Center for Victims of Crime

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Other common stalking behaviors

• sending the victim cards or gifts,
• leaving telephone or email messages for the
  victim,
• disclosing to the victim personal information
  the offender has uncovered
  about him or her,
• disseminating personal information about the
  victim to others,
• following the victim,
• visiting the victim at work,
• waiting outside the victim's home,
• sending the victim photographs taken of him or
  her without consent,
• monitoring the victim's Internet history and
  computer usage.
• using technology to gather images of or
  information about the n
  victim.
• National Center for Victims of Crime

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Other common stalking behavior continue

• While stalkers come from different backgrounds
  and have different personalities, researchers
  have developed several widely accepted typologies
  of them. It is important to emphasize that, while
  stalker typologies can be helpful, they are only
  general classifications. Whenever possible, a
• properly trained professional should conduct a
  threat assessment. Individual stalkers may not
  precisely fit any single category, and often
  exhibit characteristics associated with more than
  one category. However, the typology can alert
  investigators and victim advocates to certain
  general characteristics exhibited by similar
  stalkers, and help them with threat assessment
  and safety planning. One widely accepted typology
  of stalkers is based on the
• stalker's underlying motives, and includes the
  following categories.
• National Center for Victims of Crime

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Other common stalking behavior continue

• Simple obsessional.
• This is the most common type. The stalker is
  usually a male, and the victim an ex-spouse,
  ex-lover, or former boss. The stalking sometimes
  results from
• the stalker's feeling the victim has mistreated
  him or her. In intimate relationships, the
  stalking frequently begins before a breakup.
• National Center for Victims of Crime

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Other common stalking behavior continue

• Love obsessional.
• The stalker is a stranger or casual acquaintance
  to the victim, but is obsessed and begins a
  campaign of harassment to make the victim aware
  of hisor her existence. This type often stalks a
  celebrity or public
• figure, but can also stalk a non-celebrity.
• Erotomania.
• The stalker falsely believes that the victim is
  in love with him or her, and that, but for some
  external obstacle or interference, they would be
  together. The
• victim may be rich or famous, or in a position of
  power (e.g., a movie star, employer, or political
  figure). In this situation, the stalker could
  also pose a great risk to those close to the
  victim (e.g., a spouse or lover perceived to be
• "in the way").
• National Center for Victims of Crime

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Other common stalking behavior continue
False victimization syndrome. This is extremely
rare and involves someone who consciously or
subconsciously wants to play the role of victim.
He or she may make up a complex tale, claiming to
be a stalking victim. In such cases, the would-be
victim is sometimes the actual stalker, and the
alleged offender is the real victim. The Problem
of Stalking
National Center for Victims of Crime
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Other common stalking behavior continue

• Another typology used to classify stalkers
  identifies them by their relationship to the
  victim. This typology divides stalkers into two
  basic categories intimate and
• Non-intimate.
• National Center for Victims of Crime

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Other common stalking behavior continue
Non-intimate. The stalker has no interpersonal
relationship with the victim. He or she may
choose the victim after a brief encounter, or
simply after observing the victim The victim is
often unable to identify the stalker when he or
she first becomes aware of being stalked. This
type is subdivided into two categories
Organized. The relationship between the stalker
and the victim is characterized by one-way,
anonymous communication from stalker to victim.
The stalker is methodical and calculating, and
the victim usually does not know the stalker's
identity.
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Other common stalking behavior continue

• Delusional.
• The relationship between the stalker and the
  victim is based solely on the stalker's
  psychological fixation on the victim. The stalker
  is delusional and falsely believes he or she has
  a relationship or other
• connection with the victim.
• National Center for Victims of Crime

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The Problem of Stalking

• Stalkers are, by their very nature, obsessive and
  dangerous. Regardless of typology, you should
  always consider stalkers capable of killing their
  victims.
• Anyone the stalker perceives as impeding his or
  her contact with the victim, including police,
  prosecutors, and advocates, is also at risk. Some
  stalkers seek union with their victims through
  murder-suicide. Any suicidal statements or
  gestures the stalker makes should serve as an
  indication that the stalker is a high-risk
  threat. You should also examine the stalker's
  background for depression, psychiatric
  hospitalizations, and other indications that he
  or she may be suicidal.
• National Center for Victims of Crime

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Stalking Stalking Civil Protection Orders

• Question
• What is the procedure for obtaining a
  stalking civil protection order (CPO)?
• Answer
• The procedure is very similar to the
  procedure for a obtaining a domestic violence
  CPO. The only difference is that the petition for
  a stalking CPO must be filed with the general
  division, not the domestic relations division, of
  the court of common pleas. Standard stalking
  protection order forms are available from the
  clerk of the common pleas court. The petition may
  include a request that the court issue an ex
  parte (immediate) protection order before the
  full hearing on the petition can be held. The
  victim may have to meet with the judge and
  present testimony to the judge before the judge
  issues the ex parte stalking CPO. The judge will
  issue an ex parte stalking CPO if she/he believes
  that the victim is facing immediate and present
  danger. "Immediate and present danger" includes,
  but is not limited to, situations in which the
  stalker has threatened the person to be protected
  by the protection order with bodily harm or in
  which the stalker previously has been convicted
  of or pleaded guilty to menacing by stalking.
  Upon the issuance of the ex parte stalking CPO,
  the court will schedule the full hearing to be
  held within the next ten days (10 days). The
  papers must then be served by the sheriff upon
  the stalker. At the full hearing, both parties
  will be given an opportunity to present their
  testimony, witnesses, and other evidence to prove
  or disprove the allegations of stalking. If,
  after hearing all the evidence, the judge
  believes that the stalking occurred and that the
  victim faces a continuing danger, the judge will
  issue a Stalking Full Hearing CPO. The Stalking
  Full Hearing CPO should also be served or
  otherwise delivered to the stalker. The Stalking
  Full Hearing CPO will be a valid order
  enforceable by the police and sheriffs
  departments for the period of time set forth in
  the order, which may be any period of time up to
  a maximum of five years after the issuance of the
  order. See R.C. 2903.214, which is the Ohio
  statute governing stalking CPOs.

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The Stalking Of Cameron
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History

• Cameron Wallace W/F/25
• Hgt 55, 110 lbs
• Employed as head teller at Nation City Bank
• Lives with mother
• Divorced
• Has My Space account
• Has been stalked in past by suspect
• Stalking started in High School
• July 2003 Suspect Charged with menacing of
  Cameron by the Akron Police Department
• August 16th 2006 files police report for stalking
  with New Franklin Police Department

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Facts as reported 08-16-06

• Cameron reports Ryan Clutter is Harassing her
  again through numerous e-mail that are
  threatening in nature.
• Cameron advises officer she suspects e-mails are
  sent by a
• Ryan Clutter. She provides little
  information on Ryan.
• Cameron reports that e-mail are sent in the name
  of her EX-husband.
• Cameron Further advises Ryan's parents live close
  by
• She has had no relationship with Ryan, that he
  was a classmate in one class in high school
• Cameron has had no verbal or face to face contact
  with suspect for years since 2003.
• Cameron is asked to copy her e-mail from suspect

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Type of sent E-Mails

• Aug 15, 2006 911 PM
• Subject RE RE I MEANT O5
• Body ----------------- Original Message
  -----------------
• From Cameron
• Date Aug 15, 2006 902 PM
• well, being with someone for over 7 years you
  tend to know what and how a person reacts to
  questions or how they might answer..... not
  smart... not at all
• ----------------- Original Message
  -----------------
• From remy b.
• Date Aug 15, 2006 858 PM
• Really one tends to know? not smart i figured u
  would have called to confirm the e-message in the
  first place so it was really a long shot to begin
  with.......However the little topical knowledge i
  know was almost enough to slip by i had
  hoped............hmmmm i wonder how pissed u
  are?anyway u will have to forgive my curiosity i
  mean after all i hadn't been stalking u for like
  3 years and to find out ur life has been going
  down hill since was kind of interesting really I
  ACTUALLY PITY U to some degree 2 foreclosures
  living with"mommy"again and having a middle aged
  tattoed joke as a man really PLUS I'VE SEEN U AT
  A FEW BARS HERE AND THERE but like usual you'd
  never have seen me i actually have a slight
  reason for doing this i wonder?will u reply again
  probaly not but i do have a request a sort of
  peace offering if u will we were both fortunate
  in having this electronic world to converse in
  otherwise i thought i might have to confront u in
  some other medium....
• dammitt i meant 2005 we got married in barberton
  on june 8th 1999 come on

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Type of sent E-Mails Continue

• seems like u probably won't write back well here
  is my demand or list of rules, points etc.
• 1 i am actually terrified of u whenever i see u
  my guts churn inside adrenaline surges through my
  veins light of breath my entire day is then
  ruined even now i feel fear
• (the psychologist said i associate u with
  conflict that's why then he just prescribed a
  bunch of anti-depressants)
• 2I ALREADY WENT TO THE COPS A MONTH AND A HALF
  AGO(summitt county sheriff's office actually)
  they said u have every right to drive down that
  street but what i about me don't i have a right
  to live in peace. I let u have the case in 03
  primarily manic depression took over and i didn't
  care anymore if there is a second time i will
  fight it something i don't think u can afford
  financially or otherwise
• 3whenever u see me somewhere whoever is there 1st
  gets to stay the other has to leave to many times
  I've turned pale and had to leave a place when i
  was actually having a good time since u seem not
  to care and love to tell everyone u've been
  stalked im sure they'll understand if u have to
  leave because im in the same building

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Type of sent E-Mails Continue

• 4STOP FUCKING DRIVING DOWN STATE yeah u live on
  woodedge well get to ur house from 6-19from our
  Coventry days u must still take it that u are far
  better than me and the same rules don't apply to
  you THAT'S HOW THIS ALL STARTED i wash my clothes
  there and4 fucking days in a row u kept driving
  by like nothing..
• when i decided to stop this shit i avoided that
  chunk of Manchester and when u split from Jeremy
  i let it slide cause i knew you were living at
  home that time wasn't' ur fault this time is and
  i can't take it im a weaking fucking loser and it
  cripples me every time..
• 5No if u want to negotiate fine but this is the
  last day i am to have contact with u no fucking
  more i'll be up till 8 in the morning thinking of
  what a loser i fucking am and all those days at
  Coventry
• Oh and if u think the cops will help u the cant
  really trace these profiles in the same way as if
  i e-mailed u and i will fight it and we will go
  back to the old days before2003 if u want to send
  one of ur men at me fine but only once if it
  continues again we will go back to 2003 time and
  if we must then fine i just hope Mr. extreme will
  actually do something unlike the little mcspic
  but who am i to talk shit u rember the loser i
  was/am at Coventry right.....so that's pretty
  much it loser
• in fact dernichts profile tells u right were i
  live in one of his bloggs to bad u don't read
  much ha...

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Type of sent E-Mails Continue

• Aug 15, 2006 954 PM
• Subject u must think i like this
• Body I hate this and until u agree to the terms
  i will continue to do it i don't care and cops
  can't do much about it and just imagine if they
  could say a brood in a jail for a couple month my
  credit ruined like urs is soon to be not smart)
  and what do u think i'll do when i get out
  huh......
• I wanted ur silly first husband to end me but
  apparently he didn't have the will nor do i and i
  want u in this world even though i know ur an
  arrogant,selfish,slut but in reality the problem
  with having low impulse control is u don't really
  know what u will do........................so
  agree to the terms sent through a different
  profile otherwise i will keep doing this and move
  to the physical world to make my
  point............
• Jeremy once asked why i haven't done anything yet
  well i've been struggling not to for 8 years now
  and it seems to be getting harder not to and
  while still a witness i could still pretend u
  were a good person amonst all this shit.........u
  must think i gain some victory from even having u
  reply but honestly i can't stand the anxiety it's
  one of the main reasons i stopped for the next
  few months i'll expect some pig fuck or one of ur
  bad boys to come at me so no this is just another
  act of desperation.........

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• Ryan L Clutter W/M/26

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Criminal History of Ryan

• Defendant CLUTTER RYAN L 3831 STATE RD AKRON, OH
  44319
• Date of Birth01/29/1980
• Case /Count308258/1
• Statute Deg/ Descr1M/MENACING BY STALKING
• Date07/19/2003 Offense Time1245 2424 MANCHESTER
  RD
• Guilty Chg/JurMENACING/10 Date
  Filed07/21/2003Change Degree4M
• JudgeELINORE MARSH STORMER TPOClosed09/24/2003
  
• Booking Detail Charges J000064898 07/26/2003 2139
  AKRON POLICE
• Booking Detail Charges 0002852253 08/10/1999 0154
  SUMMIT COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE

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The Investigation

• 08-16-06 Police report filed
• 08-18-06 detective bureau takes case over,
  Personal information on Ryan Clutter obtained no
  current address located.
• 08-20-06 attempt made to contact Cameron no
  return call
• 08-23-06 Cameron called at work message left no
  return call
• 08-26-06 Cameron reports seeing Ryan Clutter on
  her property then goes to work.
• 08-26-06 Sgt. Korach goes to Camerons home and
  meets with her father and mother contacts Cameron
  at work and requests permission to view her My
  Space account.
• Photographs sent to Camerons My Space account
  which Cameron has not viewed. Cameron contacted
  and asked to leave work and meet with Sgt. Korach
  at her home. B.C.I. I computer crimes unit
  contacted and requested to assist in case.
• My Space contacted by Sgt. Korach and requested
  to provide information.
• Cameron views recent pictures sent to her and
  confirms pictures are of her in her home
  sleeping.
• 08-26-06 request sent to My Space requesting
  emergency information on IP address for e-mails
  sent to Cameron
• 08-26-06Sgt. Korach starts checks the Downtown
  area of Barberton Ohio for Ryan Clutters vehicle
  in attempt to locate Ryans current home
• 08-30-06 Court order sent to Level three
  Communications for IP address in question

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The Investigation Continue

• 08-26-06 Sgt. Korach starts checking the
  Downtown area of Barberton Ohio for Ryan
  Clutters vehicle in attempt to locate Ryans
  current home.
• 08-28-06 Sgt. Korach locates Ryan Clutters Black
  Ford Mustang parked in a parking lot in Downtown
  Barberton Ohio, but still unable to identify his
  residence
• 09-03-06 Sgt. Korach identifies 156 ½ 2nd St Apt
  4 Barberton Ohio 44203 as the residence of
  Ryan Clutter. Phone records also confirm this
  address.
• On 09-05-06 Sgt. Korach obtains arrest warrants
  for Ryan Clutter as well as a search warrant for
  his residence.
• 09-05-06 Ryan Clutter arrested for Burglary and
  Stalking search warrant executed on his
  residence and large amount of evidence collected.
• 09-14-06 Search warrant obtained for Computer
  equipment taken in search warrant.
• Evidence of additional crimes found on Ryans
  Computer.

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The Pictures E-Mailed to Camerons Computer
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Photo Taken By Ryan Clutter after Breaking into
Cameron's house
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Picture taken By Ryan Clutter inside Camerons
home
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Picture of Cameron and Friend inside Carmon's
House
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The Evidence
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Picture From inside Carmon's House
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Pictures of Camerons old House
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The Interview
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The Indicted Offenses

• Burglary F-2
• Menacing by Stalking F-4
• Carrying Concealed Weapon M-1
• Criminal Trespassing M-4
• Pandering Sexual material with minors five counts
  F-2
• Pandering Sexual matter five counts F-4
• Illegal use of Minor in Nudity F-5
• Breaking Entering F-5

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Convicted offenses

• Burglary 1 Count F-2
• Menacing by Stalking F-4
• Pandering Sexual Matter harmful to Minors F-4
• Illegal use/Minor nudity F-5

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Final Disposition

• 02-02-07 plead guilty to Burglary
• Menacing by Stalking, Pandering Sexual Oriented
  matter involving a Minor, Illegal use of Minor in
  Nudity oriented Material or Performance
• Sent to Prison for Definite 7 years for burglary
• 1 year for Menacing by Stalking
• 1 year for each count of Pandering Sexual
  oriented matter
• 1 year each count of Illegal use of Minor in
  Nudity.

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Sgt. Michael Korach

• New Franklin Police Department
• 5611 Manchester Rd
• Akron, Ohio
• [phone]
• mkorach_at_newfranklin.org