Cyberstalkers Segment (Cynthia Armistead & Jayne Hitchcock)

[Jason K]

You may recall a segment about cyberstalking in which a mother (Cynthia Armistead) and daughter are targeted by an obsessive stalker, allegedly Richard Hillyard, and another woman (Jayne Hitchcock) is harassed by an allegedly fraudulent "company" which seems to actually be a scam artist.

Somewhat surprisingly, Richard Hillyard and Cynthia Armistead are still having a cyber-battle 14 years later.

Cynthia gives her side of the ordeal at this website: http://www.cyberstalked.org/ourstory/

Meanwhile, Hillyard has two websites about the case, one entitled PyschoMom.org (a parody of Cynthia's personal page, technomom.com). The other is http://www.atlga.com/harassed/

Based on Hillyard's tone, the things he says and the personal (if true) information he reveals about Cynthia seems more to confirm his guilt as a cyberstalker to me.

Originally Posted by Richard Hillyard

Cynthia Armistead is a DRAIN ON SOCIETY
Apparently, she is trying to get the Social Security Administration to declare her as disabled and they are about to actually do this. She is not disabled, she is FAT because she sits on her ASS all day and night reading or working on her computer or doing worthless crap like needlepoint. If she tries to walk anywhere, she gets out of breath because she sits on her ASS all the time. THAT IS NOT DISABLED, and there are plenty of people, especially women all over Atlanta. Now, my hard earned tax dollars are paying her every month to do absolutely nothing. What a ****ing joke America has become paying scumbags like her to not work.

Her daughter will be a failure in life because she was raised by this PIG.

Whenever I see these women on the little powered carts in the grocery store, I want to go up to them and say, “get off of your fat ass and go for a walk every day”. But all of this does not surprise me. Cynthia Armistead can’t keep a job, can’t finish a degree, and is basically, just a lazy LARGE piece of human flesh.

This segment just became a lot more interesting... If Hillyard is guilty, the point of the Unsolved Mysteries segment is all the more relevant.

[WishfulDreamer]

I'm so sorry that she still has to deal with this problem, but I'm glad that she's still fighting back. I'm actually surprised that the Jayne Hitchcock case is the one not still going on now. That one seemed a lot more heated (albeit less dangerous) and I wonder what the alleged scam artist company is doing now and if the tension is still active.

On a side note, I found the FAQ interesting from a UM perspective. It's cool to hear an interviewee talk about how the show provided for her transportation and boarding and such while she was in L.A. And that they sent her a cap with the logo on it. :P

[MegtheEgg86]

I'm shocked. I am so sorry for Cynthia (and Jayne). There is absolutely no reason this should still be continuing.


The irrationality just seethes from those words of Hillyard's. It's obvious that he is simply not a healthy person.


The excerpt below is from Penn State's College of Information Science and Technology website, in an overview on cyberstalking:

It is seen in most stalkers that some form of a physiological disorder preexisted to the stalking including but not limited to, Axis I diagnoses, delusional disorders, morbid jealousy, schizophrenia, erotomanic delusions, bipolar disorder, major depression, anxiety disorder, and other different forms of personality disorders. 39% of the stalkers in the study also had previous criminal convictions, where most of the convictions stemmed from violence or sexual assault, but very rarely did the stalker have a previous stalking conviction.

http://faculty.ist.psu.edu/bagby/432.../T2/index.html