You don't know what's in their mind right now and what could be in their mind later. Jealousy is not against the law. Nor is puppy love or sophomoric infatuation. But those emotions can create an ache that leads to trouble. But there are a lot of guys out there who are not law-abiding, so restraining orders aren't so successful.
Celebrities attract a different kind of stalker - the complete stranger.
Ordinary people attract the kind most likely to kill or maim - loved one or former boyfriends or girlfriends. And nothing complicates the relationship between stalker and victim more than sex, according to a study of 50 stalking cases conducted by the Royal Free and University College Medical School in London. Stalker turns killer James Lancaster became one of the 2 percent in January when he fatally shot his wife of 13 years and then killed himself. Four months after the murder-suicide, neighbors along the quiet and winding Popes Creek Road, where the Lancasters' home overlooks a cornfield, are still trying to understand what happened to a family that seemed normal and happy. But in late 1998, he changed.