Solved Murders - True Crime Stories - Shadows of the Past A Chilling Tale of Fear, Mystery, and Paranormal Encounters PART7 #63

Episode Date: October 15, 2025

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Horror. My side of the story. You know how people always say everyone deserves to feel safe? Yeah, I believe that. I think every single person has the right to feel safe, comfortable, unbothered, and just go about life without having someone breathing down their neck. That part's obvious. But here's something else I believe. Something not everyone seems to agree with. If somebody gets accused of something, anything, they should get the chance to defend themselves. period. Now, you might think, well, that's what lawyers are for, right? Just hire one and fight it in court. And yeah, in theory, that sounds nice and simple. But in real life, it's not that clean. Lawyers are expensive as hell. Public defenders are usually drowning in cases, trying to juggle

50 things at once, barely remembering your name, let alone caring about your side of the story. And then there's the fact that stocking laws, at least in a lot of states, are so broad they can scoop up just about anybody. Like, you could send someone a handful of polite messages, nothing aggressive, nothing threatening, and suddenly, you're stalking. It all comes down to interpretation, and sometimes interpretation depends on how the other person feels that day.

That's the setup to my nightmare. It all started in 2019. How it all began. Let me back up a little. I've got a disability. It's visible, obvious, the kind of thing people notice right away. And let me tell you, dating with a disability is a whole different battlefield. Meeting women isn't easy. Hell, sometimes even getting people to

take me seriously is tough. But I try. I put myself out there, both online and in person. I don't want pity, I don't want handouts. I just want connection, like anybody else. Somehow, through one of those People You May Know lists on Instagram, I saw her. Let's call her Brooke. I didn't actually know her, but she popped up, and for whatever reason, she stood out. Maybe it was the way she looked in her photos, casual but confident, maybe it was just the timing. I can't even tell you exactly why, but something in me went, yeah, I want to talk to her. So I sent her a message, just a polite, normal message, nothing weird. And to my surprise, she answered. Not only that, but she emailed me back, and from there,

it kind of snowballed. First, casual exchanges. Then it moved to texting. Before long, it felt like a real friendship. She told me about her life, I told her about mine, and for the first time in a long time, I felt like I had something real with someone. Honestly, I thought this was it. I thought Brooke and I were going to start dating. I thought this would be my first serious relationship. I was already picturing the two of us hanging out, maybe holding hands, going places to together like normal couples do. But then, out of nowhere, she dropped a bomb on me. The first heartbreak. She said she was seeing another guy, just like that. I was crushed, absolutely gutted, like someone had ripped the floor out from under me. But I tried to play it cool. I figured,

all right, maybe being her friend is the next best thing. At least I'd still get to be in her life, right? At least I wouldn't lose her completely. But things, got messy. Her boyfriend, whoever this guy was, hated me. He got hostile every time my name came up. Brooke and him broke up a couple times, then got back together, then broke up again. Their whole relationship was this chaotic on-on-off on roller coaster, and I was stuck somewhere in the middle, not really knowing where I stood. Then Brooke started opening up to me about some heavy stuff. She told me about her mental health struggles. She asked me if I'd ever thought about dying. She admitted she had a history with drugs. She said she kept having nightmares about an invisible

man chasing her. That freaked me out, honestly. But instead of running, I stayed, because I dealt with my own issues before, and I knew how it felt to be abandoned when you're vulnerable. I didn't want to do that to her. I figured if I left, I'd be a hypocrite. At one point, we even talked about meeting up for her birthday. That's how close I thought we were getting. I was a nervous but excited. It felt like something real was finally happening. But like all good things in my life, it didn't last. The Holy Ghost text. One day, out of nowhere, Brooke sends me a text. Matter of fact, no buildup. She says, The Holy Ghost doesn't give me good feelings about you. That's it. I stared at my phone like, huh? Excuse me? What? Any normal person probably would have seen that as the big red

flag it was and walked away. But not me. I was desperate. I wanted to hold on to what we had, no matter how fragile. So I pleaded. I tried to reason with her. I told her we could work it out. But she wasn't budging. She blocked me. And that's when I broke down. The breakdown. Look, I'll admit it. I've got my own mental health problems. I'm not perfect. When she blocked me, it triggered something in me. Suddenly I was spinning. I started eating. I started eating. I started eating. I've got my own mental health problems. I'm not perfect. I'm not perfect. When she blocked me. I'm emailing her, nothing threatening, nothing scary, just explaining how hurt I was, how confused I felt, how I didn't understand why she cut me off. I stayed up late waiting for replies that never came. I kept refreshing my inbox, like maybe the universe would shift, and she'd send me something,

anything. Yeah, I know how it sounds, obsessive, pathetic, loser vibes. But in my head, I wasn't stalking her. I wasn't harassing her. I wasn't doing anything, I was just trying to salvage a friendship. Isn't that what friends are supposed to do? Talk it out when things get rough? And you've got to understand. Because of my disability, connections don't come easy. I don't meet people every day who want to stick around.

Brooke felt rare, valuable. Of course I didn't want to let go of that. Plus, she never explicitly said, Stop contacting me. Not once. I wasn't spamming her either. I wasn't blowing up her phone daily. At most, maybe once every other week, I'd send something small.

And then, three months later, she finally broke the silence. The final message. Her message was short, blunt, flat. Stop. That was it. No explanation, no closure, no answers. Just that one word. I sat there confused, frustrated, hurt.

I didn't want to just stop. I wanted to understand. I wanted to know what went wrong. Why the sudden change? Why the cold shoulder? So I sent a couple more messages, still polite, still calm, just trying to dig for answers. But eventually, the truth sunk in. She wasn't going to explain. She wasn't going to give me what I wanted. And if she told me to stop, well, then I had to respect that. So I did. I left her alone. I sat by myself, thinking about the future, realizing it was time to move on. Or, so I thought, knock knock. Out of nowhere, there's a knock at my door. I open it to see officers standing there. They hand me a criminal summons.

I'm being charged with stalking. I swear my soul left my body. Stalking? Me? For sending a handful of emails and texts? I couldn't wrap my head around it. I never threatened her. I never scared her.

All I did was try to keep a friendship alive. And now that's a crime? I immediately called a lawyer. I went through every single email I ever sent Brooke, printed them out, highlighted things. My lawyer looked through it all and was stunned. He couldn't believe it either. There was nothing threatening, nothing dangerous, and yet here we were. Every day felt like a haze. I'd never been in trouble before. Never. And now I was branded a criminal? To make it worse, trolls online got wind of it. They started calling me a stalker, taunting. me, emailing the insults. They mocked me for my situation. Suddenly, I was the one being harassed. My confidence sank, my self-worth evaporated. I started questioning everything. Like, if I said

hi to another girl in the future, would she turn around and accuse me of stalking to? Was I doomed to be labeled forever? The prosecutor. At one point, the prosecutor considered dropping the charge. For a moment, I had hope. But then he found out I partook. in some recreational vices, stuff that was legal in another state, but not in mine. And just like that, his opinion shifted. He claimed that me doing something legal elsewhere showed character flaws. He used it against me, like suddenly I was some degenerate just because I lived differently than his narrow view of good. What was next? Judging me on what I ate for breakfast, using my favorite music against me? It felt absurd, unfair, like the whole system was stacked against me. The hard choice.

In the end, I had to make a brutal choice, keep fighting and risk losing big, or plead guilty to a misdemeanor and try to move on. I pled guilty. And just like that, people automatically assumed I really was a stalker. But here's the thing, pleading guilty doesn't always mean you're guilty. Sometimes it just means you're trapped. To be continued.