An Ohio stalking victim, who spent two agonizing years being hunted by an unseen predator, finally found out the culprit had been inside her home the entire time.
Stalking victim had hired predator
A nurse and mother of three from Brecksville, unknowingly invited her stalker into her life when she hired security company, Elite Technology, back in 2022.
She had no idea the man installing cameras in her home would later use them to violate her privacy from both his residence and his vehicle.
What started as harmless-sounding late-night phone calls turned dark fast. She described how the anonymous caller began addressing her by name and soon escalated to sending disturbing messages containing explicit content.
On three separate occasions, the stalker reportedly triggered her alarm system in the middle of the night from a remote location.
“It was scary because I was lying in bed many nights, wondering if this is the night that this escalates and he does something physical,” she said.
After two years of fear and sleepless nights, the woman took matters into her own hands.
She decided to engage directly with her harasser through text messages, hoping he would let something slip.
“I would text and he would text me and he started to give more clues of who he was,” she explained.
Stalking victim catches a break when suspect makes error
Eventually, the stalker made a critical mistake: he forgot to disguise his voice, one she remembered hearing before in her home.
Robert Hocevar, 57, or ‘Bob the alarm guy’ as he liked to call himself, had been hired by the woman to install her home security system based on a recommendation from a family member.
She admitted to feeling uncomfortable during the installation but dismissed her gut instinct.
“When he was talking to me after it was installed, I had a moment where I felt uncomfortable because he was very close to me,” she recalled. “I remember taking some steps backwards.”
After Hocevar failed to disguise his voice, she “had a family member listen to it after I kind of figured out it was him and when she heard his voice, she said, ‘without a doubt, that’s him.’”
The pieces finally came together when the woman saw a news report about Hocevar.
It was then she realized her own stalker had been arrested for targeting two other female clients.
Investigators say he used burner phones and voice-altering techniques to conceal his identity while continuing to harass women who had trusted him to install security equipment.
“I felt like, ‘how is this man in people’s homes selling alarm systems when he’s been harassing, stalking?’” his victim said. “It’s terrifying to think I had this man in my home.”
Hocevar’s rap sheet spans more than a decade. In 2008, he was convicted of stalking and harassment, receiving a nine-month sentence.
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He was sentenced again in 2015 to one year for similar charges. In 2020, he served six months for menacing by stalking.
In June, he entered guilty pleas to multiple counts: burglary, unauthorized use of telecommunications property, stalking with sexual specifications, telecommunications harassment, and possessing criminal tools. He will also have to register as a Tier I sex offender.
Hocevar was sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison on July 8. Authorities say he targeted at least seven victims.
Penn State professor behind bars for lurking
In a separate, but disturbingly similar incident, a Pennsylvania man is facing serious charges after allegedly stalking a family and lurking outside their home under the cover of night.
Anoop Narayanan, a 50-year-old research professor in biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State University, was arrested and denied bail on June 16.
He is accused of multiple stalking episodes, including loitering and prowling after dark, according to documents cited by NorthcentralPa.com.
Patton Township Police responded on June 15 after a resident claimed someone was peeking through his apartment window.
Officers found both the suspect and the caller in the parking lot of the building.
The resident, deeply concerned for his family’s safety, shared security footage showing a man believed to be Narayanan crouching beneath the window to avoid setting off motion lights.
The man is seen sitting silently in the shadows before the resident confronted him.
Police said Narayanan had also appeared near the same residence on June 8 around 10:10 p.m. and again on April 25 at approximately 9:30 p.m. The court document cites April 25 as the official date of the offenses.
When officers read Narayanan his Miranda rights, he chose to waive them. He allegedly told police he didn’t live in the building but enjoyed walking by it.
Police then informed him about the surveillance video, after which Narayanan was arrested.
While being handcuffed, he reportedly apologized to the resident and admitted to having watched the man’s family, including a young child, on multiple occasions.
Narayanan is now facing charges related to repeated stalking and nighttime prowling.
