Up Close and Personal - Part 7

"If you’ve ever lived through a tragedy like the murder of Amy, as her family has and as we have as professionals working on their behalf, you would be painfully aware of how tragic results can occur from the inexcusable failure to monitor who accesses Americans’ most personal information." -David Gottesman and Robert Douglas

The National Center for Victims of Crime has an updated list of stalking statutes at both the Federal and State level. HERE

Much lip service has been given to stalking legislation by the government since Amy Boyer's murder, but the fact of the matter is that better law is coming out of the states than Congress. Docusearch reached a settlement with the Estate of Amy Boyer approximately one year after the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruling.

Unfortunately for William Berkeyheiser, A-Plus Investigations, Inc. failed to heed the warning from New Hampshire that reverberated throughout the freewheeling Internet data broker's market in the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision. Although several investigators declined Stanford Douglas Jr.'s business, A-Plus aka SpiesOnline.com chose to provide the sociopath with personal information, including the names and addresses of Berkeyheiser's grown daughters and the fact that Berkeyheiser did not own a gun.

Douglas, of Northeast Philadelphia was sentenced to life in prison for the March 2005 shooting death of Berkeheiser over a perceived racial slur seven years earlier. The victim's widow has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against A-Plus as well as the assassin.

If people are lax about security of data they collect or use about you, it's time for them to recognize they can be held accountable. These information brokers have aided the work of thieves, harassers, and stalkers, in addition to detectives and investigators. Judge Robert H. Alsdorf, Washington, wrote in a memorandum ruling, "It is hard to conceive of a broader invasion of privacy than freely disseminating the information to the entire world and rendering it instantaneously accessible to all."

In 1960, eminent legal scholar William L. Prosser documented how privacy as a legal concept had come to constitute four distinct torts. That is, a person whose privacy has been invaded could sue the privacy invader for damages. These torts still exist today:

1. Intrusion upon seclusion or solitude, or into private affairs;
2. Public disclosure of embarrassing private facts;
3. Publicity which places a person in a false light in the public eye; and
4. Appropriation of name or likeness.

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“If I can find you, I can find your vulnerability.” -Posted by: loretta (Serrano) at November 25, 2005 01:15 PM

"This information has been gathered about Jexxne, Cxxhy, Loxa, Kaxie, Gxxna, Lexxie, Suxxn, Dexxna, Sxxna, and others. As it is, I have a very good friend who is a private investigator and has supplied me with everything I never wanted to know about all of them. Gratis." –Loretta Serrano @ misfitting.com/archives/001113.php

misc.legal - Oct 08, 09:23 am by RetzQ "Announcement I am offering a $500 reward to anyone who can correctly identify the woman who posts as "Just Amazed" on Usenet and over at Axxxa's site, Her IP headers can be found on her Usenet posts or I have her IP here as well. -Loretta Serrano

alt.fan.bob-larson - Oct 08, 09:16 am by RetzQ "I am going to sweeten the pot: $200 REWARD on the real Identiy of "Axxxa Rxxxxxn/Axxxa Nxxxxn/Axxxa Nxxxxxe/et al." Or more. Depending on who wants to ante up. I have the $$ - and some."-Loretta Serrano

"Notice to those posting on Kennel the Sequel: I will not hesitate for one second to post your names, addresses phone numbers, photos, personal ads, other nicks, forum links, pics of your pets, kids, grandchildren, front lawn sprinklers or UPS man at ANY TIME if you continue your MUTT ways." - Posted by: loretta (Serrano) at December 19, 2005 11:33 AM

"I would have gladly paid to find her, but it just so happened that I didn't have to! In fact, I didn't have to pay to find any of the mutts except the one bit about Vxxxxxe - which was well worth the partial REward $$$ - it's the gift to myself that just keeps on giving! Vxxxxxe had such a meltdown when I identified her, she called the police on me and reported me for stalking! It was HILARIOUS." - Posted by: loretta (Serrano) at December 29, 2005 10:45 AM

"So, thanks to our favorite detective's amazing ability to scrounge up interesting public documents, my buddies over at Youzenet [sic] are having a field day with PKB's financial records. You know, I've had those records for a few months. The only reason I gave them to K & K was because of Toad's behavior. If Toad had just STFU and stopped promoting the k*nnel or calling me a liar, or defaming me and my book, or spreading false stories about me and my children, I would have kept those records to myself and only shared them internally with AG and a few others. But, nooooo. That idiot had to go to the wall again and again." -Posted by: Merrill Lynch aka Loretta Serrano March 09, 2006 at 10:24 AM

"I hope by posing [sic] the PB stuff rots their socks. There's more where that came from." -Posted by: Merrill Lynch aka Loretta Serrano March 09, 2006 at 10:24 AM

There's no shortage of volunteers willing to assist Loretta Serrano in her never ending pursuit of personal information about individuals that question and criticize her disturbing online behavior.

Loretta’s passion for dispensing private data about family members of her targets is not only sinister but also indicative of her ineptitude in resolving conflict on a one-to-one basis. It’s a spineless creature who identifies an opponent’s relative and indiscriminately broadcasts the unwitting victim’s personal details on the WWW in retaliation of a perceived slight.

Collateral damage inflicted on people that had no interaction with the invertebrate, who were not the source of her displaced animosity, and in all probability are not aware of her undistinguished existence. Mrs. Serrano is not a sympathetic figure and those that aid and abet her by invading another's privacy, then distributing and publishing the personal information, are equally reprehensible.

Notice how Misfit Margaret was willing to finance a private data transaction, but balked at the idea of disclosing her own address for verification in the process. Imagine that?

I checke [sic] the number on one of those search sites and it does go back to Toronto ON. I was prepared to pay the $14.95 for more but they wanted my billing address for the credit card and that seemed like too much information to give. If that's how it's done, I'll do it. They also wanted my password and even I thought that was a bit much. -Posted by: Ma'am of War aka Margaret E Hill February 21, 2006 at 04:55 PM

Free legal advice:

"I don't follow all of this ruckus too closely, but I have a couple of ideas about legal action. First, I think you should explore any state laws regarding tortious interference with a business contract w/r/t her attempting to cause problems for you in the workplace. Second, I would call the local Feds and see if they have any interest. There is diversity of citizenship and I know there are a bunch of fed attys now assigned to internet stuff and they don't have enough to do. Not sure about jurisdiction over Canadian national, though. DISCLAIMER - this is not the sort of law I practice. However, I'd be happy to gin up some letter if you like." -Posted by: civil aka Leslie Hodge February 22, 2006 at 11:02 AM

Verb - to gin up
To setup a snare.
To exaggerate.
Retrieved from "http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gin_up"

Hodge, Leslie Evalyn Attorney
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Covington, LA 70433
(985) 893-9900 (985) 893-7620 (fax)
Email: lhodgerullaw.com

Sidebar: Although the specific elements required in proving a claim of tortious interference vary from one jurisdiction to another, they typically include the following:
1. The existence of a contractual relationship or beneficial business relationship between two parties.
2. Knowledge of that relationship by a third party.
3. Intent of the third party to induce a party to the relationship to breach the relationship.
4. Lack of any privilege on the part of the third party to induce such a breach.
5. Damage to the party against whom the breach occurs.

It is unclear which option Leslie (Civil) Hodge favored regarding Loretta Serrano’s “tortious interference with a business contract”.
1. The Marilyn Solution
2. The Spy vs. Spy Solution
3. The Iraq Solution
4. The Bail Out Option

Pity Loretta Serrano didn't utilize the available free resources to locate a deadbeat dad that abandoned his son six years ago. At least a small child would benefit from that collaborative effort.

"He never talks about ex number one, and since 2000 has not admitted I or Little Boy exist." -Loretta Serrano

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The Gatekeepers

"Data kills when it's in the wrong hands. As private investigators, we’re the gatekeepers of private information and as such we hold the lives and well-being of other people in our hands. This is a responsibility that we must prove ourselves worthy of or there will be more Rebecca Schaeffers and Amy Boyers. Won’t you do your part in making sure that no more names are added to this list?"

-Robert Scott, P.I.

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"I know it was wrong, but I did it anyway."
-Loretta Serrano