STALKED! By Voices is my soul searing autobiography of how I was stalked, mentally, and sexually harassed for decadesIn 1976 the word stalker, as we know it today, did not exist. It didn't become commonplace in our language until after the horrific murder of TV star, Rebecca Schaeffer.Rebecca was the star of the 1988 sitcom, My Sister Sam. And in 1989, she was shot dead on her own front doorstep by Robert John Bardo. A young man who had never spoken so much as a single word to Rebecca Schaeffer nor had she ever encountered him until the day he shot her dead. The first day Rebecca Schaeffer met John Bardo, was the last day of her life.Before Rebecca's murder there was no such thing as being stalked by a stranger. According to the local Police in my area, "It just doesn't happen!"So now, try to imagine that's it's 1976 and you're a young twenty-three year old Black woman, of no reputation, trying to convince your local Police that you're being followed, 24/7/365 every second of every day, everywhere you go.Their reply was, "You can't be being followed by people you don't know. Why would complete strangers want to follow you around?"I kept up the complaint. But needless-to-say, my repeated attempts at getting help fell on deaf ears and ended up with my being sent for out-patient psychiatric counseling and dosed, daily, with anti-psychotic drugs.But the worst was yet to come. After my so-called therapy ended, with a forced confession that I'd made the whole thing up, I was left to fend for myself against a family of psychopathic predatory sexual stalkers. This is my True Crime, #MeToo Memoir.
About the Author: ELIZA ANKUM grew up in the small, and very rural, town of Latham, Alabama back in a time when there were no McDonalds, paved streets, or street lights, and telephones were a luxury. Eliza's favorite pastime was reading the Encyclopedia Britannica. When she was 13 years old her parents made a decision that would forever change her life. They moved the family to Chicago, Illinois. Chicago was a world apart from Latham, Alabama. Everything was different - the way the people dressed, the way they talked, and even the way they moved through their world was different from downhome. As might be expected, her rural upbringing made her a target for Chicago's tough inner city kids. How did she cope? She took to the Library and found new worlds and friends in books. Never before had she found such solace. Latham had been too poor and too isolated to afford such an indulgent thing as a Library. After High School, she transferred her love of reading into a job set taking on mostly administrative and secretarial jobs. These jobs gave her another set of skills valuable to all authors, grammar and sentence building. It was not until years later, while watching The Oprah Show that she was inspired to try her hand at writing, first with her riveting autobiography, 'STALKED! By Voices'. Eliza followed with the fictional aviation disaster novel, 'Flight 404'. She then wrote the highly successful Ruby and Jared Saga (Ruby Sanders and Jared Anderson).