Worst From Investigation Discovery

Those were the kind of things I was wondering. That maybe, given their focus on her accent and choice of physicality of actress, that she possibly had been a victim or war crimes in another country and that had caused her behavior. Yet, they told us nothing, not even anything of public record.

I did wonder why she didn't at least take a photo of the boxes that were put in front of her door with "police" written on each of them. If anything, that would in some was probably have allowed them to charge the woman with impersonating police. But with someone like that the only thing to do is to get away.

As far as recording, though, it's harder than you think. You have to have great equipment. What sounds loud (e.g. barking dog) and goes on endlessly for you (and I know of which I speak) doesn't sound so bad on something like your iPhone, and I don't know when that was or what she might have had or been available. When you hear things in context repeatedly you know there's something wrong, but then taking them out of context for people who deal with the law is completely different. You know, "Before certain hours she has the right to 'sing'" when everyone would know perfectly well she's not singing, but that's where that would end up in court. That's why I think the boxes were so important. There's no other explanation except that she put them there to harass. And she labeled them "police," which would not have made LE happy.

We are landlords and screen carefully. We actually call the references. This started after I convinced my husband the potential renters don't think of us as people like them, but further along in life who can't sell our old condos, due to the economy, and must rent them out. They think of us as THE LANDLORD or THE MAN as if we have money to burn and what they do to us doesn't matter, despite the fact that we keep our units in wonderful shape because we want to sell them eventually, and we just would because we are nice people. We finally had a guy whose last place of residence told us he evicted him for failure to pay rent. Now, why would we rent to him?! So, after my husband tells him we can't rent to him (and I'm pretty sure why, too) he asks if we have anymore units. I said, "See, I told you!" And that guy would probably have sued us after he "fell" down the stairs. We don't need that in ours lives. We had another who pretty much destroyed the carpet, had a couple of noise violations (from neighbors; her parties were how she ruined the carpet, I guess), cracked the ceramic tile (it's a nice place) in the kitchen, and more, but then didn't pay the last month of rent so we had to take it out of the deposit, which left us with nothing to pay for the damages, but chalked up the carpet to, "We were close to needing to replace it anyway," and I found a better carpeting for rentals that looks really nice. Since then (two tenants and maybe four years) we've had no more problems. Now we ask more questions and I even check Facebook pages. Yes, cute college girl who swears she doesn't have a dog, but has a gazillion photos of herself with a dog in every photo, what about that dog? Once they're in, it's hard to get someone out, so we figure it's better to leave it empty another month and find the right person or family than end up with something like our first few tenants.

That all was something they never addressed in that episode that could be very helpful to people. What you can and can't do. Again, I go back to the obvious mental illness of that woman. We don't know if she owned her unit. She might have been a renter, but if legally disabled then her landlords would have had a very difficult time evicting her without copious amounts of evidence because what she was doing fell into a very grey area LEGALLY. A disability lawyer would have been all over that case, whereas she clearly had frightened the entire neighborhood and was at the very least a danger to others. But prove it. Sigh... At best she would end up in some mental health wing of a jail for a time, which would do nothing for her.

This episode could have addressed so many issues, but did nothing but repetitively chronicle the victim's story, to no fault of her own. Someone needs to get on the ball with this show.

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Have any of you watched "Silent Scream" episode 8? Her parents acted like she put it on herself, she did NOTHING to make this guy obsessed w/her and he also called her a *beep* and obviously the guy she liked (forget his name) set her up - it wasn't his apartment he invited her over to - watch a video/movie. Its sick how this guy she liked and he really acted as if he liked her set her up like that - she gets to "his supposed apartment" and he's like just wait here I got to go brush my teeth and suddenly its the crazy stalker guy who comes in and starts calling her names and harassing her (recording it as well). Seems like Jane couldn't trust anybody at that college that was supposed to be diversified - I didn't finish watching it all (I will) but its obvious they didn't catch the guy b/c she wouldn't say where the safe house was- the sheriff's office put she and her family at, Jane said just in case my family is still there. Jane is little older now but seems so far she has no contact w/her family. The police don't know WTF they are doing obviously if Jane changed her looks completely - she so sad looking, and was adopted by a Lutheran family when she was a baby so they are very stoic and don't understand the harassment (calling her *beep* and other discriminating words for Korean, Chinese, Japanese) put up w/since she was in elementary, middle, high-school college; she just held all this harassing inside all her life, parents should've listened to her cry for help instead of just ignoring it; so sad for her
I'm going to finish watching it now.. but my favorite one and saddest one is the lady whose husband was killed in that bar by that stalker creep; justice sucks - the law changed after Ben died but it sure didn't help any when he was alive. I felt so bad for that lady, they loved each other so much.

I can somewhat relate to the crazy neighbor episode. I have a neighbor who screams and argues with no one in her yard quite often. She has yelled out comments to us several times which made no sense. If I'm outside alone, she screams insults at me. My mother was visiting us and had a talk with the neighbor's father, who was also visiting. Our neighbor has mental issues and apparently goes off of her medication quite often. According to the info my mother got, her income is SS Mental Disability. I called our mutual landlord and was told that as long as she wasn't threatening us, there was nothing that could be done. Knowing this, the landlord rented another place to her! Now the crazy neighbor is renting the places on both sides of us. We just stay vigilant, it's all that we can do.