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It all started with a friend request. Amanda Playle was flattered to see the Facebook request come in from her old high school boyfriend, Anthony Reynolds. The two hadn\\u2019t spoken for a while, but they quickly reconnected. They talked about their lives. So much had changed since their high school days. Amanda was married to her husband Paul. She\\u2019d become a mother. Over time, she admitted to Anthony that her marriage wasn\\u2019t perfect. But when Anthony pressed her to meet up, she declined. She didn\\u2019t want to cross a line. But Anthony refused to take no for an answer. Soon, he began stalking and harassing her.

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Then Kristin tells us about a man who fell behind on his mortgage payments. Tony Kiritsis planned to turn his real estate into a shopping center, but after falling behind on his payments a few too many times, he found himself under the threat of foreclosure. He was livid, but didn\\u2019t blame himself. He blamed Meridian Mortgage. So he showed up at their offices one winter morning with a sawed off shotgun and took mortgage broker Dick Hall hostage.

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And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.

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The documentary \\u201cDead Man\\u2019s Line\\u201d

\\u201cTony Kiritsis\\u201d entry on Wikipedia

\\u201cKin testify Kiritsis held sister hostage in 1969,\\u201d by Carolyun Colwell for The Courier-Journal

\\u201cKiritsis jury \\u2018far from a decision,\\u2019\\u201d by Kristie Hill for the Associated Press

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\\u201cThe Stalker Inside My House\\u201d episode BBC Outlook

\\u201cAmanda was terrorised by a stalker for two years. Then she learned her husband was to blame.\\u201d by Jessica Clark, mamamia.com\\n

\\u201cMan jailed for stalking wife by impersonating ex-boyfriend\\u201d by Damien Gayle, The Guardian

\\u201cBexhill stalking victim speaks out and urges others to seek help\\u201d by Isabelle Cipirska, The Bexhill-On-Sea Observer

\\u201cSLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY Mum-of-three terrorised by stalker for two years horrified to discover it was her own HUSBAND\\u201d by Carl Stroud, The Sun

\\u201c\'Calculating and cruel\' husband, 43, set up fake Facebook accounts to pose as his wife\'s EX-boyfriend to threaten her and quiz her over past sex life is jailed for more than three years\\u201d by Thomas Burrows, The Daily Mail