Laura Richards

Can you explain to our audience why registrating serial stalkers and domestic abusers similar to offenders is so crucial to saving lives?

So once I started on this campaign journey, I met someone called Laura Richards, fantastic, the crime analyst.

And she was the one that talked to me about patterns and escalation.

And she'd done work in New Scotland Yard around serial perpetrators of domestic abuse and stalking.

But I'm just so happy that it's happened because...

And Laura, I don't know, like, I, we were, we were both curious about this too, but just in reading the indictment, it's very short.

It's only three pages.

It really felt like, and I said this on my Facebook page, like, we're being seen, like, we've been seen just because of the kind of...

I was shocked to see the FBI pursue a charge like this because it is something that it's a crime that, we have said this over and over, mostly affects women and mostly threatens women.

And it is just very rare for any police agencies to take those types of crimes seriously.

And yeah, the indictment is validating because it is full of things that women have gone to police for in the past and just been told, "Sorry, can't do anything." And the key here is to, and the frustrating part, Laura, is that I think the worst part about this case and investigating it was listening to Micah's 911 calls where she was clearly begging for help.

She was clearly desperate.

really should be criminal and coercion they don't even want to hear if you don't have on your face or pictures of abuse they don't understand this um word language abuse or whatever we want to call it trauma they don't understand i mean

you know i i um You know, I'm very close with Laura Richards, who's part of Crime Analysts, and she was one of the people that helped criminalize it in Great Britain.

And, you know, eight states here in the United States do recognize it in family court, but we have a long way to go.

And they really don't pay attention to it.

It really helps others find me and my work, and it helps with the ratings, too.

Crime Analyst is written, produced, and hosted by me, Laura Richards.

Sound engineering by Raymar Rodriguez, and music by Kill Rude.

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It really helps others find me and my work, and it helps with the ratings too.

Crime Analyst is written, produced, and hosted by me, Laura Richards.

Sound engineering by Raymar Rodriguez, and music by Kill Rude.

You're listening to this podcast, so I know you've got a curious mind.

especially by prominent activists in this area.

So I highly recommend people like Laura Richards, who really kind of championed coercive control being legislated and criminalized in the UK.

Emma Katz, who's a UK researcher and works very much in the area of coercive control in mothers' and children's lives.

She's got a great sub-stack.

However, state senators and Micah's family have pledged to continue refining and reintroducing the legislation.

It's Laura Richards.

Laura Richards, that's right.

So she, and the podcast was...

True Crime Profile.

Because it is an extreme act to do that.

So if we flip it onto our own behaviour, we now understand that this person is choosing to do that in the moment.

And we know that if they've done it before, it increases the risk 850%.

And I've never seen perpetrators de-escalate.

And the rational voice in us, oh, but it wasn't my face.

This kind of rationalization, minimization, I really want people to hear.

The fear, first of all, of when you're in these moments and this person's doing this to you, it is scary.

And that is the message.