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Man Gets 26-Year Jail Term for 17 Years of Stalking

By Dawn in harassment, Home Security, Investigations, MSI Detective Services, Private Investigator, Safety, Security, stalking, Stalking Cases at February 1st, 2012 | No comments

 

 

 

 

 

This story sounds like a bad Lifetime movie – a suspense/drama thriller that goes beyond the norm of what “normal” people will do. I can’t imagine how this poor woman has lived out such a real nightmare for so many years.

A Seattle-area man was given a 26 1/2-year prison term for waging a 17-year campaign of harassment against a former classmate he met in middle school. Prosecutors are calling this the longest sentence for stalking in memory.

Shawn Moul, 31, passively accepted the sentence last week which came about six months after being convicted on two felony counts of stalking and 19 counts of violating anti-harassment orders.

Moul began stalking classmate Tracy Lundeen in 1994, shortly after Lundeen saw him at the school library struggling with his homework and offered to help him. Lundeen said Moul began following her and wrote her more than 100 letters, alternately threatening her and vowing to kill himself. He also contacted Lundeen’s family members, demanding that she contact him.

Moul has already served prison time for repeatedly violating a no-contact order, having been sentenced to eight years in prison in 2001. Apparently, eight years wasn’t enough to teach him a lesson because after his release, he again initiated contact through Lundeen’s sister. Read the full article »

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Cellphone Spying Becoming Easier for Abusers and Stalkers

By Dawn in Cheaters, Cheating spouse, Debugging - Electronic Countermeasures, eavesdropping, gps, harassment, Infidelity, invasion of privacy, MSI Detective Services, Safety, stalking, Technology at January 9th, 2012 | No comments

 

 

 

 

 

Here is one company’s promise on its website to anyone who wants to eavesdrop on someone else’s cellphone: “You could now listen in 100% completely undetected.”

The average person now has easy access to spy technology allowing them to gather cellphone information, read private emails, and track someone’s location using GPS. Experts say that the technologies are being used by spouses and partners to track, harass and stalk. “Technology has just exploded. It’s so sophisticated now and it’s very easy to utilize these different technologies to keep tabs on a person and find out where they’re going,” said Gina Pfund, chief assistant prosecutor of the Domestic Violence Unit in Passaic County.

This is very scary stuff when this type of technology gets into the wrong hands or is abused. I know of one woman who was being stalked by her ex-boyfriend and eventually learned he was tracking her whereabouts via her cellphone.

Experts say the person watching or listening is often a family member and frequently a suspicious or controlling partner. They have scanned Facebook pages, viewed online web-browsing histories, and exam­ined cellphone records for proof. However, some take it a step further, planting spyware on smart phones and computers.

Spyware is being aggressively marketed online as a means to find out if a spouse is cheating. It can be in­stalled on computers to monitor keystrokes, emails and passwords and to take screen snapshots. Spy software can also be installed on a smart phone to allow a third party to monitor calls, view text messages and photos, and track a person’s location and movement via GPS. A built-in microphone can also be remotely activated and used as a listening device, even when a phone is turned off. Technology experts say the phone user has no idea they are being spied on. Read the full article »

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Rupert Murdoch: Ex-News of the World Private Investigator Arrested

By Dawn in Debugging - Electronic Countermeasures, eavesdropping, Hacking, harassment, invasion of privacy, Investigations, MSI Detective Services, Police Records, Private Investigator at December 12th, 2011 | No comments

Rupert Murdoch’s defunct News of the World tabloid is back in the news again with another scandal. This time, British police arrested a private investigator last week who once worked for the paper.

This is the 18th suspect to be detained as part of the police’s investigation into phone hacking carried out by the paper, which Murdoch shut down in July.

The latest suspect has been identified as Glenn Mulcaire. London’s Metropolitan Police said the 41-year-old man was being held on suspicion of conspiring to intercept voice mail messages and perverting the course of justice. Mulcaire was previously jailed for hacking into the voicemail messages of royal staff while working for the News of the World.

Thus far, only two people have been jailed for phone hacking — Mulcaire and News of the World reporter Clive Goodman, both in 2007.

5,795 potential phone-hacking victims have been identified by London police in material collected from Mulcaire. More than a dozen News of the World journalists, including former editor Andy Coulson, have been arrested in the fiasco.

This latest scandal comes on the heels of last month’s shocking story about how The News of the World hired a specialist private investigator to run covert surveillance on two of the lawyers representing phone-hacking victims as part of an operation to put pressure on them to stop their work.

A CNN report stated that Rupert Murdoch is operating like a ‘Mafia boss.’ As if the initial discovery about the “phone hacking victims” wasn’t shocking enough, Murdoch then takes the scandal to a new level by hiring someone to spy on the lawyers of the victims and try to intimidate them. Read the full article »

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Police and Safeway Grocery Store Get Extreme in Handling ‘Theft’ of Stolen Sandwiches

By Dawn in harassment, MSI Detective Services, Police Records at November 3rd, 2011 | No comments

This story made my mouth fall open. The reaction of a Honolulu Safeway grocery store and the police regarding a couple ‘stealing’ two sandwiches is outrageous!

Nicole and Marcin Leszczynski were shopping in Safeway with their two-year-old daughter. Nicole Leszczynski, who is 30-weeks pregnant, was beginning the feel faint and ate a sandwich from the store while shopping. I can relate to this because I have had moments when my “sugar crashed” while shopping and had to eat something before I paid for it – and I wasn’t pregnant. It happens.

The couple paid for $50 of groceries but forgot to pay for two sandwiches that together cost $5. They were stopped by security and Nicole admitted her mistake/oversight and immediately offered to pay the $5 with cash. “It was a complete distraction, distracted-parent moment,” Nicole told local TV station KOHN. I think most parents can relate to being distracted while shopping with children. I felt distracted in my moments of low blood sugar, even after eating something small to hold me over, and I was without children.

Shockingly, store management wouldn’t accept the woman’s reasonable offer/explanation and immediately called police. The police arrested the couple for fourth degree theft and took their daughter. Their daughter was placed in Child Protective Service custody for 18 hours after the incident. Can you imagine how traumatized this child must feel? Read the full article »

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