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Stalker hasn't stopped
Even behind bars, man has been contacting victim
By Berny Morson, Rocky Mountain News
January 16, 2004
BOULDER - Steel bars can't keep the "Longmont stalker" from contacting the woman he has been tormenting since 1977.
Robert Vinyard ordered a birthday present for the woman from a Denver record store in October while locked up in the Boulder County Jail.
Then he smuggled out a Christmas letter, threatening to break off the relationship unless the woman responds.
"If my actions go unrewarded, or worse, punished, I'll never, ever communicate or see you again," he wrote.
Vinyard is awaiting trial on a felony stalking charge, along with several misdemeanors arising from the incidents.
Vinyard met the woman when the two were students at the University of Colorado in 1977. He's been contacting her ever since, sometimes repeatedly in a single day.
Vinyard has been in and out of the state penitentiary and the state mental hospital in Pueblo for two decades. Neither have deterred him.
His contacts with the woman resumed shortly after he was released from prison June 2. He was rearrested and placed under a restraining order but still has contacted her again several times from jail.
Assistant District Attorney Tim Johnson adds each new incident onto the pending charges.
Vinyard may not write letters to the woman because of the restraining order. But he has sent letters through others, who forward them, or has used other ploys, jail officials say.
The letter dated Dec. 26, for instance, was addressed to an insurance agent, but it bore the woman's street address and was delivered by the Postal Service.
In addition to threatening not to contact her anymore, the rambling letter said, "Hopefully you'll surprise me and we can have a happy ending."
He ordered the birthday present from Twist & Shout Records in Denver by mail and paid with a money order, Longmont police officer Greg Malsam said in a memo to Johnson.
The present was a Bob Marley record. The title contains a word similar to the woman's name.
"I changed my name in part for protection and anonymity due to stalking and media coverage," the woman said in a note to Johnson, the prosecutor. She suspects Vinyard got the new name from the Internet.
Sheriff's Capt. Larry Hank, the jail commander, said prisoners don't have access to the Internet.
Hank said prisoners address their own letters, making it possible for Vinyard to get around the restraining ordered by forwarding mail through a third party or by using the insurance company tactic.
Prisoners may use the phone when out of their cells, Hank said. But all calls are collect, and the receiving party can hang up, Hank added.
A motion to restrict Vinyard's communication with anyone but his attorney is pending before County Judge Thomas Reed.
Vinyard's lawyer, Nancy Holton, said Thursday she will oppose the motion on constitutional grounds.
A hearing is scheduled on Feb. 6.
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I think this stalk is worser than any of us ever experience !!! SAD for long time for that lady being so suffer from that robert has been stalk on woman since 1977 whooaaaa