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Thomas N. Eichler and his wife were arrested in Virginia Beach, Virginia, in May and charged with burglary and other crimes related to their stalking a Middletown, Pennsylvania, woman for more than two years. Allegedly Eichler had stolen a key to the woman’s apartment and had taken various belongings, including items of her underwear, and then neatly packaged them in plastic and labeled them with the date taken. Eichler also had more than 1,000 photographs of the woman.
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Gary Arthur Medrow, 47, was arrested in March in Milwaukee (the latest of his more than 30 arrests over 23 years) after he repeatedly telephoned a woman, identified himself as a police officer, and tried to persuade her to physically pick up another person and carry him or her around a room. He had previously talked cheerleaders, motel workers, and business executives into carrying each other. In the latest incident, he had told the woman that another woman had been impersonating her, had been in an accident, and had been seen carrying someone away. Medrow asked the woman whether she could in fact carry someone away from an accident. The only explanation he offered for the calls was that he was lonely.
Authorities at the San Francisco County Jail reported this summer that an average of ten visitors a week come to see convicted serial killer Richard Ramirez, the “night stalker,” and that most are young females who profess to be in love with him.
