There’s a hole in our justice system — and it’s costing lives.
Stalking isn’t just harassment. It’s an obsession, a mental health crisis, and a pattern that almost always escalates. It doesn’t fade when ignored. It doesn’t stop when confronted. It mutates and follows.
Here’s what too many don’t know:
13.5 million people are stalked each year, and that’s in the United States alone.
Eighty-six percent of women murdered were first stalked by their killer.
Eighty-six percent.
That’s not coincidence — that’s a warning we keep missing.
When a stalker moves across state lines, the trail often goes cold. New officers, new jurisdictions, new victims. There’s no national system that connects the dots — no unified database that alerts law enforcement to prior stalking reports especially in cases of domestic abuse. So each new complaint is treated as a first offense when, in reality, it may be the fifth, tenth, or fiftieth.
This is where change has to begin.
We need a national stalker database — a centralized, cross-state system that flags repeat offenders and connects law enforcement, victims, and advocacy groups in real time. Because stalking doesn’t end at the border. And neither should accountability.
Right now, the Stalking Prevention, Awareness & Resource Center (SPARC) is the only national organization tracking stalking laws and offering training for professionals. SPARC’s website provides an invaluable map of the U.S. — click your state, and you can see the laws that apply where you live. But SPARC isn’t a victim-advocacy service, and it can’t intervene directly when someone’s in danger. It’s a start — a powerful tool — but not enough.
I know firsthand how devastating stalking can be. My daughter and I lived that fear for over a decade. And if not for two extraordinary FBI agents — Steve Kramer and Steve Busch — and their groundbreaking work in forensic genealogy, I might not be here to tell this story.
Their courage changed the course of justice and led to my upcoming Paramount+ documentary, My Nightmare Stalker: The Eva LaRue Story, premiering November 13, 2025. But it also left me with a mission: to push for systemic reform that protects others before it’s too late.
Stalking doesn’t just change the victim’s life — it rewires it.
It turns freedom into vigilance, peace into hyper-awareness.
And it shouldn’t take twelve years, or a miracle, to be believed.
It’s time to build something lasting.
A national system that sees patterns before they become tragedies.
A country that says, “We hear you. We see him. You’re safe now.”
