MrBallen

break-ins, harassment, and other kinds of vandalism or damage.

However, neither Patrice nor anybody else had reported any actual violence.

So authorities were basically overwhelmed with a flood of what they considered sort of relatively minor complaints.

And Patrice's situation really didn't seem much worse than anybody else's in town.

And also officials just didn't have the manpower to deal with it.

And so ultimately, all authorities did was just advise Patrice on ways she could handle it herself.

which was why she'd installed those bars on her windows.

All this is to say, Cassie knew that Patrice was genuinely terrified of her stalker, who Patrice referred to as Big Bastard.

And she was worried about what the stalker might do next.

So after Cassie was done with her shift that day, she tried to get in touch with Patrice one more time.

But when she couldn't reach her yet again, Cassie called the police and asked them to go do a wellness check.

That evening, a deputy from the Sierra County Sheriff's Department drove up to Patrice's house and parked in front.

And immediately, he could tell something was wrong.

The front door of her house was clearly smashed in, and there was a garden hose that was laying across her porch steps and was spraying water everywhere, like the water had just been left on.

And so the deputy got out of his cruiser, and he walked over to the house, and he found the turnoff for the water on the side of the house.

And then he walked up the front steps of the porch.

And as he did this, he was constantly looking around and listening, trying to figure out what was going on here.

I mean, he didn't know if there was an active threat inside the house.

He had no idea what he was walking into.

And so he's on the porch and before going in through the front door, which was obviously smashed open, he looked in a window to see if he could see into the house to gauge what was going on here.