[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2126]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            THE TOWN STALKER

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, Justin Thurber was a deviant that liked to 
secretly sneak, slither around, and follow women who rebuffed him. He 
tracked them like one would track an animal for prey. He did not like 
being told no.
  For the young women in a small Kansas college town of Arkansas City, 
Thurber's predatory actions were well known. He was the town stalker, 
the town weirdo. Jodi Sanderholm was one of his victims. When Jodi 
disappeared, her college friends knew who was responsible.
  On January 5 of this year, Thurber had enough of being ignored by 
Jodi. He kidnapped her; he drove her to a remote, lonely, desolate area 
in the county. He raped her; he strangled her to death. He covered up 
his dastardly murder by hiding her body in the remoteness of the woods 
and he dumped her car in the lake. Jodi died, and the last person on 
Earth she saw was not her family, but the town stalker.
  Mr. Speaker, nearly 1.4 million people are stalked each year, and 
most of them women. Intimidating a woman by following her around and 
showing up outside her home, work, and school is not romantic, it is a 
perverted crime. Hopefully the good people of Kansas will put this 
stalker in the ground.
  And that's just the way it is.

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