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5. Manufactured Coincidence

March 04, 2025 • 37m

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Overview

This episode of 'Stalked' investigates how Hannah's anonymous stalker, believed to be her former friend Kin, may have gathered extensive personal information about her life. The hosts explore theories of surveillance, from sophisticated spyware to simple social engineering, while data analysis reveals discrepancies in Kin's claims about his whereabouts. Experts help unpack how easy it is to access someone's private information through hacking, social media, or manipulating service providers, leaving Hannah questioning whether she was truly under surveillance or if Kin was simply exploiting publicly available information and human vulnerabilities.

The Silence After BBC Contact: A Revealing Pattern

Perhaps the most telling piece of evidence emerges from a timeline observation - the stalking emails that had been arriving multiple times daily for years suddenly stopped within a month of the BBC expressing interest in Hannah's story. Before the podcast inquiry, Hannah received four or five emails per day. After contact from the BBC, nothing. This dramatic shift raises the disturbing possibility that Hannah's communications were being monitored and that her stalker knew about the investigation before it became public.

  • Before BBC contact, Hannah received four or five stalking emails daily
  • Within a month of BBC expressing interest in the story, the emails stopped completely
  • The sudden silence raises questions about whether Hannah was under surveillance
  • The timing suggests the stalker may have known about the podcast investigation
" Before that, it was four or five emails a day. And it just went quiet. Nothing. Not a peep. "

The Surveillance Question: How Much Did He Know?

Hannah describes the unsettling extent of information her stalker possessed about her and her family - addresses, phone numbers, bank details, passport information, and even private health matters about her father's kidney transplant. The harassment continued even when she changed numbers and moved locations, leading to a critical question: was she under active surveillance through spyware, or was there another explanation for how Kin accessed such intimate details of her life?

  • Stalker had detailed family information including addresses, phone numbers, bank account details, and passports
  • When Hannah changed her phone number, calls would start coming to the new number instead
  • Hannah received parcels with different versions of her name at multiple addresses
  • Dylan received messages containing very personal information, including that Hannah's father needed a kidney transplant
" Now this is very personal information and it's all coming back to me. He even knew that my father needed a kidney transplant. Now, how do you access that kind of information? It's quite intriguing, to be honest, because that was very, very personal information at that time, and very few people would have known that kind of stuff. "

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