“And he should NEVER, NEVER, NEVER have told his wife.”
Someone left a dead, mutilated rabbit hanging on the front door knob. Kind ‘a hard to miss, you know what I mean?
And that tells me exactly what I’m dealing with and I know exactly who to call.
The FBI has profiles of various stalker types going back 40 years. You can tell whether you have a devoted but violent fanatic or a psychotic nutjob who can’t tell the difference between loyalty to Obama and whether or not the voices he hears are coming from the streetlights.
If what you said actually happened, the FBI actually can open a file for domestic terrorism. It tells you that this is somebody somewhat local (depending on a few other factors) and the news of the incident will do one of two things: 1. Scare the person off because he now knows he is going to prison if he is discovered (and everything ends) or 2. There is another message of some kind (and depending on whether the message is more deliberate or not, you know you’ve basically brushed the nutjob back).
But either way, put everything you are doing under somebody elses name who will volunteer to front for it. There are a lot of us out here who aren’t unhappy to take on nutjob stalkers and live in states where shoot first is the law and not just a good suggestion.
I’ve contacted some people over there to offer some help. But having a freaked out wife frequently is game-set-match for an aggressor seeking to intimidate a subject. When you do controversial things for a living, you learn to protect your assets first before you go out and start causing trouble. But Techdude would not have had to expect to know this.