It's a real-life stalking case with inspiration from a fictional crime show.
Samantha Stites shares her story about enduring over a decade of stalking before being kidnapped and escaping with her life in ABC News Studios' latest docu-series "Stalking Samantha: 13 Years of Terror."
"I initially met him, and he was just kind of an awkward, you know, student in passing," Stites told On The Red Carpet.
She described how her captor "was following me to my work, following me to my gym, grocery shopping."
Eventually, she says she "told him to leave me alone. He's not necessarily trying to talk to me, but I'm starting to see him lots of places."
Stites filed for a personal protection order, which held up for six years. But when that order expired, filing a new one proved difficult, as the