Gary Jubelin reveals how he was stalked on podcast with stalking survivor, author Nicole Madigan

He has locked away some of Australia’s worst criminals. Now former cop Gary Jubelin has revealed to another stalking survivor how he had to call police for help. Listen to the podcast.

One of Australia’s most well-known former detectives has revealed he is the victim of a stalker.

Former New South Wales homicide cop Gary Jubelin has been inundated with messages from someone he has never met.

The contact was so intense he was forced to call police – but that just made things worse.

“I had a stalker – still do – who was contacting me electronically, and it got to the point where I had to get police intervention,” Mr Jubelin said on the latest episode of his I Catch Killers podcast.

Jubelin is talking about stalking on the episode with journalist Nicole Madigan who has written a book, Obsession, about her stalking nightmare.

Gary Jubelin, former top detective-turned award-winning author and host of the top-rating podcast I Catch Killers, has revealed he has a stalker.

“I sent police to speak to this person and it just escalated straight after I had police [involved],” Jubelin said.

“I made a decision not to press charges,” he said despite the incidents increasing.

“I sort of tried it by saying, ‘look, could you stop it, basically, and leave me alone’. It didn’t work.”

He didn’t want to press charges for fear of “becoming part of that person’s life”.

“I’d never met that person and I’m worried that person would have achieved what [they] wanted to if we had to sit in the same court,” he said.

Madigan said it was frightening to not know the stalker’s motivation, or when their behaviour would stop.

“It’s just the knowledge that someone’s so determined to ruin your life...It’s hard to switch off from the horrible hurtful things that are being said in public as well,” Madigan said.

Obsession author Nicole Madigan with Jubelin. Picture: Julian Andrews.

Madigan said people were putting up with issues they didn’t need to that was plunging their life and mental health into chaos.

“It is a crime, so it should be treated that way. That’s something to remember too actually, it’s already is a crime. So that should be recognised by the public and by police, and by perpetrators, who I think seem to feel quite emboldened and quite brazen to do as they wish.”

She said new laws in New South Wales and Queensland could help police become more proactive and recognise the crime is often a precursor to a serious violent offence.

Obsession, a new book by Nicole Madigan.

Stalking is about fear and control. Picture: iStock

Madigan spoke to former Detective Gary Jubelin on the I Catch Killers podcast about her ordeal and her investigation into stalking detailed in her just released book, Obsession.

“Fear is used to control [people] and in a domestic violence situation, it’s actual control … you mustn’t go there, you mustn’t wear that. In a stalking situation or a non domestic violence situation, it’s control through fear...You’re going to modify your behaviour if you’re scared, because you don’t want to get a response or trigger a response,” Madigan said.

Australian police had become world leaders in dealing with domestic violence, and Madigan said many of the same lessons could be applied to stalking victims.

However, there was a “long way to go” before that happened and would need police to be more “proactive”, she said.

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Originally published as Gary Jubelin reveals how he was stalked on podcast with stalking survivor, author Nicole Madigan