“Lack of love” sparks years-long cyberstalking campaign

A self-proclaimed incel will spend over seven years behind bars after stalking two women while at university.

“I’m going to slaughter you. I’m going to string you up…put you on hooks in the back of a tree like a f**king cow. I could eat your f**king kidneys like Jack the f**king Ripper, dance in your entrails…I can jam a barrel down your throat and see how well you can lie to me then.”

This is part of a message that one former University of Delaware student sent to one of his victims after they had rejected him.

Rejection can be rough. But usually, people just get over it and move on. However, Kyle Stevens couldn’t take the fact that his victims didn’t want anything to do with him. The women didn’t show him “the attention he felt he deserved.”

Soon, he became obsessed with his victims, so much so that he decided to embark on a stalking spree that lasted four years and even went overseas.

Stevens stalked two women he met at the University of Delaware during the 2018-2019 school year.

After the supposed rejections, Stevens didn’t take it well and meticulously crafted a plan that involved stalking and harassing his victims. He wrote down all of his ideas in a document called “Stalker Notes.”

Stevens’ plan was well thought out and premeditated with the sole intention to stalk his victim, known as Victim 1 and Victim 2, in court documents.

“Vocal harassment builds confidence, so steal, move to her, harass, . . . also harass others/family,” Stevens wrote.

During the spree, Stevens sent emails and messages on social media saying he had tried to forgive them, but he would get his “revenge one way or another.”

For months on end, he would send messages to his victims, threatening to put a bullet in their heads, to kill them, and fire unblockable gunshots.

Cyberstalkers use social media and other forms of online communication to harass and threaten their victims and any others who might get in the way. Stevens threatened the two women via social media, over the phone, and through email.

He eventually became so obsessed with Victim 1 that he found her father’s Facebook and sent him a message saying that he couldn’t wait to bash his daughter's skull in. Stevens even set himself reminders to schedule death threats months in advance. “Death threat??” he wrote in his calendar.

In 2020, Stevens moved to Germany to study abroad and continued his cyberstalking campaign from there. Alongside this revenge plot, Stevens also submitted ten fraudulent applications for pandemic relief loans for small businesses that didn’t exist.

Eventually, law enforcement caught wind of his criminal exploits. Law enforcement agencies in the US worked with the German Ministry of Justice to extradite Stevens from Germany to North America.

The German police seized Stevens’ devices and found various documents outlining his crimes.

Stevens believed his life was unfair. He believed that stealing from the government was justified due to his economic status. Stevens also thought that because his victims didn’t love him, they should fear him.

In his notes, Stevens also expressed his alignment with the incel or involuntary celibate community, which is a group of men who are angered by their lack of sexual attention from women. He believed that his actions were justified due to the lack of love and attention he received from his victims.

Stevens will spend 87 months, or just over seven years, in prison for the charges of fraud and cyberstalking. He must also return over $1.4 million he stole from the government.