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Samantha Stites spoke to ABC News ahead of Hulu's Stalking Samantha: 13 Years of Terror , about her harrowing experience

Christopher Thomas pleaded guilty to kidnapping, torture and aggravated stalking in December 2023

Thomas is serving a minimum of 40 years in a Michigan state prison

A Michigan woman lived through a nightmare when she was stalked for years by a man who later kidnapped and tortured her.

Now, after her stalker was sentenced to decades in prison, Samantha Stites is telling her story.

Speaking to ABC News ahead of a Hulu documentary series about the case, Stalking Samantha: 13 Years of Terror , Stites says she first thought her stalker was just "lonely."

"At first I think he is just lonely and for some reason finds me an approachable person to talk

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