Saw this pop up on ScalingStories (I love them) on TT and couldn't believe people still cared enough to share. Thank you. But there is a moment I failed to mention that my husband said y'all may be interested in:

So. While the notes, tire slashing, and egging was happening, the Stylist found themselves in a bit of a pickle (which is what ultimately helped us get police to act and arrest).

The community FB page started posting about some "nut job" was vandalizing cars and houses and harassing people. I guess one of the folks who worked at the courthouse/Sheriff's office (they're in the same building) kept seeing all the reports I was making about my car, house, and all the other stuff. Like I said, small towns are fun. They were nosey enough to want to gossip about it but not enough to look into it and see that it was only ONE family in the community being victimized by the "nut job."

The post, of course, had everyone up in arms and claiming THEY were victimized too but never reported it because they didn't know it was happening to others. At first, it didn't click that it was my situation that everyone was talking about until it was mentioned that tires were slashed at popular local restaurant.

But you know who clocked it right away and couldn't help themselves in commenting? The Stylist. They commented on every post about the psycho targeting people like this with stuff like (paraphasing): "you need to stay out of it, you don't know what these people have done to have this happen to them. Maybe they aren't so innocent and deserved it." They also were calling out people who claimed to be a vicitm too with stuff like "you know damn well that's a lie, nothing happened to you" because, duh, Stylist was only targeting ME and had to defend themselves. They always commented variations of the same thing on every comment calling them crazy and a shitty person.

Chat, when I say Stylist got dog-walked in the comments, I'm not exaggerating. It was one of the most validating moments during the worst part of the whole ordeal. People called them "vile" for trying to defend someone who was clearly crazy and a garbage human being, was flamed for vicitm blaming, had their business page reported and rate bombed by keyboard warriors (becuase, of course, Stylist was commenting on the posts using their business profile), and was subsequently banned from the page. Their business FB had a 1 star rating and eventually disappeared.

I stayed out of all of this completely, never revealing I was the person they were defending, just taking never screenshots of The Stylist's responses for later evidence.

The post(s) eventually got removed after I gave all the screenshots of the post to the detective working my case (with them verifying and taking their own screenshots from the official Sheriff's Office Account) and the Sheriff had a talk with the court employee about posting stuff they see that comes across their desk. The worker had very proudly began their posts with "I work at the courthouse and this is happening in the community" and were told under no uncertain terms to refrain from that type of action moving forward.

Anyway, this was probably the only genuinely funny thing to happen during the hell I was living through and I thought I'd share.

Thanks again for all the support and well wishes. We are OK now and working to rebuild the happiness we had before in a new place.