A NEW show on Netflix delves deep into specific stalking cases, interviewing the stalkers, their victims, and law enforcement officials.
As one might expect, the Netflix series is full of terrifying criminals and the stories of how their minds justified terrorizing their victims.
Who is Ruben Jaramillo?
Ruben Jaramillo describes his childhood as that of a loner.
He says that he and his mom moved often and he was constantly bullied, with his father in and out of the picture.
He describes his childhood dream of one day owning a home with a wife and children of his own.
According to Ruben's interviews on the show, he dated women who were mostly 18-24 years old, and most ended up running off with other men.
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It wasn't until he began working at a nursing home that he met a nurse who was 45 (Ruben was only 29 years old at the time).
"Maria" (who asked not to be named) showed him affection, and soon she was having an affair with Ruben, telling him she planned to leave her husband for him.
In the show, Maria is interviewed but with her identity concealed to protect her and the privacy of her family.
What did Ruben Jaramillo do to Maria and her family?
Maria left her husband and moved in with Ruben.
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According to Ruben, her parents told him that he was too young for her and that he needed to find someone his own age.
Yet the tables quickly turned whenever Maria decided to move out due to the strife the relationship was causing with her family.
Ruben wrote "die" on the bedroom wall in his own blood, and things only escalated from there.
Soon, Maria was finding hundreds of letters on from Ruben on her doorstep threatening suicide if she didn't come back to him.
He also threatened and harrassed every relative of hers that he could find, and would drive by their homes at all hours.
He also followed Maria to her job, and threatened to kill her and her family members.
Finally, Maria decided to move with her daughter to another apartment in an attempt to evade Ruben, but he quickly found her.
On September 26, 2005, following nearly two long years of stalking, Ruben showed up at Maria's parents' house with duct tape, a stun gun, and handcuffs.
He tazed both of her parents, even causing her father to have a heart attack.
While Ruben was distracted with Maria's father, her mother slipped away and managed to call the police.
By the time the police arrived, Ruben was gone, but had left behind plenty of evidence, including a note detailing his horrifying plans for the night.
According to the Netflix series, the note described his plan to harm her parents, kidnap Maria, her daughter, and her granddaughter, and take them to Mexico to live "forever."
Where is Ruben Jaramillo now?
On October 14, 2005, Ruben Jaramillo was arrested while trying to cross the US-Mexico border.
He was charged and convicted of aggravated burglary; the stalking charges were allegedly too hard to prove, despite the number of people he'd harassed and the letters and other physical evidence that Maria had.
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He was given 45 years for the attack on Maria's parents, and is not eligible for parole.
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He is currently serving this sentence at a maximum-security prison in Jefferson County, Texas.
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