CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A Chicago woman who said she has been the target of a stalker for nearly a decade has decided to take new action. It is a very public effort to get relief.
“I want my life back," said Melissa Callahan.
Melissa Callahan said it started in 2012 with sexually explicit text messages and phone calls.
“It has escalated into my home being intruded into, I found a photo of myself on my cell phone that I definitely didn’t take, I was asleep. I’ve woken up with my clothing removed," she said. "Trying to understand what has happened while I was asleep, trying to understand how I didn't wake up."
Additionally, she thinks her cat was poisoned.
There was also a curious gas leak in her home and a severed animal head was left on her porch.
There have also been smaller things.
“It’s like he wants me to know that he’s doing this and he’s playing this game and he’s winning this game," Callahan said.
She said she knows who it is, someone she dated briefly, but she can't prove it.
"I sleep with a baseball bat," Callahan said.
Callahan has posted it all online at stalkerfile.com - nearly 200 pages of compelling, but circumstantial evidence. It’s explicit.
She hopes someone may recognize something and reach out.
“The best way I can describe it is if you’re watching a scary movie, you have the ability to take the remote control and turn it off. I don’t have that ability. I can’t turn it off," Callahan said.
She said police have been of little help. State’s attorney investigators did speak with her and said she needed more evidence. A judge said the same thing.
She recently quit her two jobs, put her house on the market and moved.
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