Emily Infeld's story of a persistent, mentally ill, stalker (and runner) . . . an ugly story

Very scary…that must have been terrible for her.

Since the stalker found her online, and running is a fairly niche interest, what are the odds her stalker was on LRC?

fully vaxxed, anti-masked wrote:

Very scary…that must have been terrible for her.

Since the stalker found her online, and running is a fairly niche interest, what are the odds her stalker was on LRC?

There was a previous thread about this, and I'm nearly 100% sure that one of the posters on that thread was the stalker.

he's here wrote:

fully vaxxed, anti-masked wrote:

Very scary…that must have been terrible for her.

Since the stalker found her online, and running is a fairly niche interest, what are the odds her stalker was on LRC?

There was a previous thread about this, and I'm nearly 100% sure that one of the posters on that thread was the stalker.

There are recent updates. He is in jail. He is Craig Donnelly who ran for Westmont College and Oklahoma Baptist University.

It 100% certain a guy like this was an LRC regular. He went through great efforts to track her.

Too bad the police were attending to more important things than addressing her case.

Good article. Very sad story for everyone involved.

America's fury wrote:

Too bad the police were attending to more important things than addressing her case.

Now that the guy is in jail it seems Emily finally fells safe telling the entire story.

The police and FBI did address her case, and she, after several years, got a restraining order, which he violated multiple times. It is likely that many of these stalking cases end after the stalker gets outed by the police and FBI. Emily's stalker was far over the line.

What level of "stalking" is necessary for police to address a case? Are posting about how a woman looks on LRC sufficient? I don't think there is enough room in jails to handle every person guilty of this on LRC. There are certain posters on LRC who would have been jailed long ago.

I know this isn't the point of the story and I feel bad bringing this up, but:

There was some serious finger pointing towards Nike for handling this poorly making her return to Oregon to race. Is she the next one to leave Bowerman?

Sad story for everyone involved. A normal, albeit quirky guy sustains a traumatic brain injury, becomes mentally and emotionally erratic, and targets a complete stranger for harassment in his downward spiral. Horrible that so much had to happen to Infeld before the legal system was finally able to address the situation. Sad, sad stuff. Protect your noggins!

Runners are strange people man. This is not surprising.

Most runners run to deal with lack of human interaction or some other disorder.

It is rather weird when you think about someone that goes running around town a lot by theirselves.

A runner being a stalker is not so surprise at all.

brobro wrote:

Sad story for everyone involved. A normal, albeit quirky guy sustains a traumatic brain injury, becomes mentally and emotionally erratic, and targets a complete stranger for harassment in his downward spiral. Horrible that so much had to happen to Infeld before the legal system was finally able to address the situation. Sad, sad stuff. Protect your noggins!

You failed to read the story. He was stalking for many years BEFORE he hit his head.

Can you even read?

"DONNELLY'S LIFE SEEMS to have changed in 2016. On April 27, he was running at Standing Bear Lake in west Omaha. Around 1 p.m., a 911 call came in reporting an individual with a possible seizure at the lake area, and a rescue unit was dispatched, according to records obtained by ESPN."

horror story wrote:

America's fury wrote:

Too bad the police were attending to more important things than addressing her case.

Now that the guy is in jail it seems Emily finally fells safe telling the entire story.

The police and FBI did address her case, and she, after several years, got a restraining order, which he violated multiple times. It is likely that many of these stalking cases end after the stalker gets outed by the police and FBI. Emily's stalker was far over the line.

What level of "stalking" is necessary for police to address a case? Are posting about how a woman looks on LRC sufficient? I don't think there is enough room in jails to handle every person guilty of this on LRC. There are certain posters on LRC who would have been jailed long ago.

When you say “the police,” I think you mean the FBI and a random police jurisdiction in Tennessee that happened to run into this guy by chance.

The Portland Police, by their own admission, had not followed up on the case, didn’t arrest him in Oregon when they — again, by their own admission — had sufficient cause to do so, made no effort to find the creep after he left Oregon, and blamed protesters for their own failure to protect a citizen under their care.

Your tax dollars at work, folks!

pavement88 wrote:

I know this isn't the point of the story and I feel bad bringing this up, but:

There was some serious finger pointing towards Nike for handling this poorly making her return to Oregon to race. Is she the next one to leave Bowerman?

Infeld’s fiancée works for Nike, which did — to their credit — apparently devote a lot of security resources to protecting Infeld when the police failed to do so.

I think most Nike athletes would say to a person that they don’t like the Swoosh’s reductions clauses.

brobro wrote:

"DONNELLY'S LIFE SEEMS to have changed in 2016. On April 27, he was running at Standing Bear Lake in west Omaha. Around 1 p.m., a 911 call came in reporting an individual with a possible seizure at the lake area, and a rescue unit was dispatched, according to records obtained by ESPN."

In your world the stalker is innocent. Wanting to kill her is not his fault in any way, his injured mentality is at fault. And never mind that he was back to "normal" (running and meet ups with friends) and increased his stalking.

horror story wrote:

he's here wrote:

There was a previous thread about this, and I'm nearly 100% sure that one of the posters on that thread was the stalker.

There are recent updates. He is in jail. He is Craig Donnelly who ran for Westmont College and Oklahoma Baptist University.

It 100% certain a guy like this was an LRC regular. He went through great efforts to track her.

At one point when his name was released I went to his facebook page and it was scary. The dude was just rambling about the CIA, the FDA, lawsuits - I mean bizarre. And it was clear he was mentally very very ill and needed help. It is so sad and terrible that Emily Infeld was the outlet/recipient of his illness being bought to attention. I actually hope the dude isn't in jail - he should be in a facility that looks after the mentally ill more than anything else.

burritogate wrote:

pavement88 wrote:

I know this isn't the point of the story and I feel bad bringing this up, but:

There was some serious finger pointing towards Nike for handling this poorly making her return to Oregon to race. Is she the next one to leave Bowerman?

Infeld’s fiancée works for Nike, which did — to their credit — apparently devote a lot of security resources to protecting Infeld when the police failed to do so.

I think most Nike athletes would say to a person that they don’t like the Swoosh’s reductions clauses.

True. The Nike contracts are filled with appearance clauses. If you want to get paid you must do a certain number of Nike races and non-race Nike events.

horror story wrote:

brobro wrote:

"DONNELLY'S LIFE SEEMS to have changed in 2016. On April 27, he was running at Standing Bear Lake in west Omaha. Around 1 p.m., a 911 call came in reporting an individual with a possible seizure at the lake area, and a rescue unit was dispatched, according to records obtained by ESPN."

In your world the stalker is innocent. Wanting to kill her is not his fault in any way, his injured mentality is at fault. And never mind that he was back to "normal" (running and meet ups with friends) and increased his stalking.

No, he certainly isn't innocent. I am simply expressing that it is highly unlikely that this would have happened had he not injured his brain beyond repair. Now, out of the need for public safety, he is in jail where he needs to be. One of the issues in this country is that we no longer institutionalize people who clearly need it and the risk to innocent people is much greater as a result. The attitude that mental illness or substance abuse excuses away criminal behavior is why we have so many problems in American society.

I am pretty sure you're just trolling with baseless accusations and assumptions on my beliefs around this topic, but here it is anyway.

I can't help but wonder what's going on with his mother. Based on the quotes in the article she really seemed to drop the ball and wasn't taking her son's situation seriously. Of course, maybe she did try to get him mental health treatment but he refused, and because he's an adult there wasn't much more she could do.

reer wrote:

I can't help but wonder what's going on with his mother. Based on the quotes in the article she really seemed to drop the ball and wasn't taking her son's situation seriously. Of course, maybe she did try to get him mental health treatment but he refused, and because he's an adult there wasn't much more she could do.

This was one of my takeaways as well. She vouched for him with the first Portland apartment but then admitted to the landlord that he threatens her life all the time and nothing happens so it is okay that he threatens the landlord !!!! And she used the ever popular "he is a good boy/person" defense 🙄 Always a red flag.

I also wonder who the friends were that accused Emily of making this up or exaggerating for attention. I wonder if Colleen was one of them as they stopped following each other. All the gossips on these boards thought it was related to Shelby but maybe not.

Regardless really sad situation for Emily and I hope the arrest really does lead to some closure and peace in her life now.