Erin Andrews Stalking

Erin Andrews Stalking

FEBRUARY 26--A computer scientist testifying yesterday at the Erin Andrews civil trial estimated that nearly 17 million individuals worldwide have viewed the peephole images recorded by the convicted stalker who videotaped the sportscaster naked inside hotel rooms in Tennessee and Ohio.

And all of those online intrusions--which continue today and have reportedly left Andrews a “shell” of her former self--could have been prevented by TMZ, where payoffs, bribery, and the purchase of stolen material are part of the gossip site’s foundational elements.

In September 2008, stalker Michael David Barrett filmed Andrews naked while she was inside Room 1051 at the Marriott hotel in Nashville. Barrett, who was staying in the room next door, videotaped Andrews through a peephole he had modified (apparently with a hacksaw).

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   Back in court, Waagner pled guilty to a charge of escape
under 18 U.S.C. § 751(a). Later, he was sentenced on all
three counts of conviction. The district judge found that
Waagner was an armed career criminal who possessed
firearms in connection with crimes of violence, that he
obstructed justice by escaping and, finally, that he had
not shown acceptance of responsibility for either the
original charges or the escape. Based on these findings,
Waagner was sentenced to 327 months imprisonment on
the gun charge, 120 months on the stolen vehicle charge,
and 37 months on the escape charge. The gun and stolen
vehicle sentences were ordered to run concurrent, but
the escape