Laurisa Anello, now nineteen, began receiving gifts of roses, T-shirts, dolls and pizzas five years ago. Drive-bys at all hours of the night, along with physical pursuit worthy of the most dedicated detective, followed. Wherever the Florida teenager went, Bruce Raines - a twenty-four-year-old umpire in the softball league Laurisa had joined - shadowed her. He called the house, as well as her parents' offices, incessantly. When Laurisa started dating, he accosted the first young man who took her out. That's when the notes he'd been inserting in the family's daily newspaper turned menacing. "I'm out there. No telling what I might do," warned one. "I'll be watching so I can catch you," read another.

Even after several arrests, Bruce continued to stalk Laurisa. Her mother, Linda, began to secretly tail her daughter. "Just in case he was around," she said. "I just know if he goes over the edge, he's capable of doing anything. That's the horror of it."