Stalker Files https://stalkerfiles.podbean.com It always starts small.

A message. A gift nobody asked for. Someone who keeps turning up where you are, more often than chance allows. By the time it is obviously dangerous it has usually been going on for months, and by then the person doing it has built a version of you inside their head that you have no access to and cannot argue with.

Stalker Files is about those cases. Real ones, from around the world, followed from the first unwanted contact to wherever they ended.

No interviews. No dramatisation. No speculation about what anyone was thinking. Just what happened, in order, with the detail left in: the times, the places, the words people actually used. Every episode is built from court records and reporting from the time, and every source is listed in the notes.

Some of these people survived. Some of them did not.

New episodes twice a week.

]]> Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:32:05 -0400 https://podbean.com/?v=5.5 en Copyright 2026 All rights reserved. True Crime 1440 episodic Someone decides you belong to them. True crime about real stalking cases, told plainly and in full. stalkerfiles stalkerfiles No true https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/21190097/stalker-files.jpg Stalker Files https://stalkerfiles.podbean.com 144 144 The Will She Wrote at Twenty The Will She Wrote at Twenty https://stalkerfiles.podbean.com/e/episode-01-the-will-she-wrote-at-twenty/ https://stalkerfiles.podbean.com/e/episode-01-the-will-she-wrote-at-twenty/#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:32:05 -0400 stalkerfiles.podbean.com/48836309-ad87-375f-81ba-e4baa02f0981 Shiori Ino was twenty years old, a university student in Saitama Prefecture, when she wrote her will. She had met a man named Kazuhito Komatsu ten weeks earlier, at an amusement arcade near Omiya Station. He lied about his name, his age, and his business. Within weeks he was pressing luxury gifts on her and screaming at her in the street when she refused them. He called her at home using a number she had never given him. When she ended it, he and his brother came to her family's house and made what her mother understood as a threat against her younger brother. She went to Ageo police station the next morning with a recording of it. She went back the following day with both her parents. Over four months she brought them letters, posters, and a licence plate. Officers wrote her complaint down, then altered it.

Komatsu paid a man twenty million yen to have her killed, then flew to Okinawa to be elsewhere when it happened. On the twenty-sixth of October 1999, Shiori Ino was stabbed twice outside Okegawa Station and died within the hour. Police then told reporters she had been a girl who liked expensive brands. Three officers were later convicted of falsifying her complaint. Komatsu's body was found in a lake in Hokkaido with a note saying he had meant to do it all along. Japan's first anti-stalking law came into force the following year. Her father still lectures on her case, sometimes at police academies.

Chapters 00:29 — Cold open 01:39 — The case 06:25 — Afterwards

Content note This episode covers stalking and violence, and their aftermath.

Support If you are affected by stalking or harassment, help is available. United Kingdom. National Stalking Helpline, 0808 802 0300. Run by the Suzy Lamplugh Trust and staffed by stalking specialists. Free from most mobile phones. Open half past nine to eight on Monday and Wednesday, and half past nine to four on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. United States. VictimConnect, 1-855-484-2846. Support and referrals for victims of any crime, by phone or text, in more than two hundred languages. Australia. 1800RESPECT, 1800 737 732, or by text on 0458 737 732. Domestic, family and sexual violence counselling, twenty-four hours a day. If someone has access to your phone, a text or an online chat may be safer than a call. Elsewhere, contact your local police or a domestic abuse service.

For all credits and sources, please visit https://www.podbean.com/pw/pbblog-33v6q-1561329

Stalker Files is narrated using synthetic voice.

]]> Shiori Ino was twenty years old, a university student in Saitama Prefecture, when she wrote her will. She had met a man named Kazuhito Komatsu ten weeks earlier, at an amusement arcade near Omiya Station. He lied about his name, his age, and his business. Within weeks he was pressing luxury gifts on her and screaming at her in the street when she refused them. He called her at home using a number she had never given him. When she ended it, he and his brother came to her family's house and made what her mother understood as a threat against her younger brother. She went to Ageo police station the next morning with a recording of it. She went back the following day with both her parents. Over four months she brought them letters, posters, and a licence plate. Officers wrote her complaint down, then altered it.

Komatsu paid a man twenty million yen to have her killed, then flew to Okinawa to be elsewhere when it happened. On the twenty-sixth of October 1999, Shiori Ino was stabbed twice outside Okegawa Station and died within the hour. Police then told reporters she had been a girl who liked expensive brands. Three officers were later convicted of falsifying her complaint. Komatsu's body was found in a lake in Hokkaido with a note saying he had meant to do it all along. Japan's first anti-stalking law came into force the following year. Her father still lectures on her case, sometimes at police academies.

Chapters
00:29 — Cold open
01:39 — The case
06:25 — Afterwards

Content note
This episode covers stalking and violence, and their aftermath.

Support
If you are affected by stalking or harassment, help is available.

United Kingdom. National Stalking Helpline, 0808 802 0300. Run by the Suzy Lamplugh Trust and staffed by stalking specialists. Free from most mobile phones. Open half past nine to eight on Monday and Wednesday, and half past nine to four on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

United States. VictimConnect, 1-855-484-2846. Support and referrals for victims of any crime, by phone or text, in more than two hundred languages.

Australia. 1800RESPECT, 1800 737 732, or by text on 0458 737 732. Domestic, family and sexual violence counselling, twenty-four hours a day.

If someone has access to your phone, a text or an online chat may be safer than a call.

Elsewhere, contact your local police or a domestic abuse service.

For all credits and sources, please visit https://www.podbean.com/pw/pbblog-33v6q-1561329

Stalker Files is narrated using synthetic voice.

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