Every Breath You Take: The Stalking of Dr. Brennan

Love, hate and obsession have always been pretty close relatives.
Anybody who’s ever picked up a Harlequin romance novel or watched a
ridiculous rom-com knows that we don’t really get the best guidance
from society on how to manage our love lives. Some of us just kinda
wing it until we figure it out. Some of us go from train wreck to
train wreck, and some decide we’d rather skip the whole thing and
focus on hobbies and pets and learning how to keep indoor plants
alive. But then there are the ones who—so desperate to latch on to
another person that they feel empty without it—weave an elaborate
fantasy of the Perfect Love. And when they meet someone who seems
to match the dream, they latch on. Even if it turns out that the
object of their desire doesn’t want to be latched anymore. The more
the dream-partner pulls away, the more feverish the fantasy
becomes. And things can get dangerous, fast. Join us for the
strange true story of Diane Schaefer, a woman whose obsession with
a famous cancer doctor took over her life, and the lives of many
others.

Sources:
Marie Brenner, "Erotomania: The Haunting of Dr. Brennan," Vanity
Fair, Sept. 1991
The Village Voice: "Stalking the Stalkers"
https://www.villagevoice.com/2001/07/03/stalking-the-stalkers/

Investigation Discovery's "Tabloid," episode "Love You to
Death"
Lifetime, "Obsessed," 2002

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