Real Life, or Lifetime Movie? The Cyberstalking of Angela Diaz

Go Listen to the Hillbilly Horror Stories 6th Annual Halloween Special - featuring an exclusive Kinda Murdery Story, "The Halloween Necropheliac and the Murder of Rebekah Gay." Here's some links to the Halloween Special: Hillbilly Horror Stories on SpotifyHillbilly Horror Stories on AppleNow, onto today's episode: In 2016, Angela Diaz seemed to be living a a life straight out of a storybook. She'd recently married US Marshall Ian Diaz, and was basking in the intoxicating aura of newfound marital happiness. The promise of an expanding family, heralded by the imminent arrival of not one but two bundles of joy, made her existence feel even more complete. Yet, beneath this facade of serenity, a storm was brewing—an insidious tempest that would shatter her world to its very core. Angela found herself the target of an unspeakable menace. Sinister emails began flooding her inbox, dripping with vitriolic language and laced with biblical references that made the malevolent messages all the more terrifying. These were not mere words; these communications were designed as instruments of psychological torture. Coupled with the textual threats were macabre visual elements—stomach-turning images of deceased infants that would sear themselves into the psyche of even the most hardened individual...Sources: https://www.cracked.com/article_26167_5-true-crime-stories-that-had-unbelievable-plot-twists.html https://web.archive.org/web/20171020002933/http://orangecountyda.org/civica/press/display.asp?layout=1&Entry=5355 https://nypost.com/2023/03/27/deputy-us-marshal-convicted-in-fake-rape-fantasy-plot/ https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/deputy-us-marshal-convicted-conspiracy-cyberstalking-perjury-and-obstruction https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-24/ian-diaz-us-marshal-convicted-framing-ex-girlfriend-sexual-assault#:~:text=They%20posed%20online%20as%20Hadley,to%2020%20years%20in%20prison. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-deputy-us-marshal-sentenced-cyberstalking-perjury-and-obstructionBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/kinda-murdery-true-crime-murder-stories--5496890/support.Zevon Odelberg is a true crime podcast host and disability advocate.  Zevon has cerebral palsy and he wants Kinda Murdery to be welcoming community for people with disabilities and for people living with challenges of any kind.  Life can be hard, but being together makes it better.