Two Stalkers One Goal, or: How the Science of Implosions Nearly Destroyed Our Lives

By Jack Norton and Kitty Norton

High school sweethearts Jack and Kitty have it all - an Emmy Award winning children's television show they created, a band touring the world and a film career heading for certain success.

Deep in the woods, The Wisconsin Blaster sits in a shrine devoted to his obsession: Kitty. Surrounded by used tampons and discarded coffee cups, he carefully studies schematics…researching dynamite to take down a building. Several hundred miles away, another blaster has already been rigging the same building - meticulously planning an implosion of his own.

They are two stalkers, with one goal: to destroy the personal and professional lives of Jack and Kitty.

In a story stranger than fiction, this inspiring memoir offers hope and healing for victims of stalking, cyberstalking, narcissistic abuse, gossip and bullying…all with more twists and turns than any Hollywood thriller.

In the game of life, hope is a chameleon.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Norton Family Publishing
• Release date: Nov 25, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393243090

Jack Norton

Hi, I’m Jack Norton. I am an Emmy Award winning American writer currently wandering around Europe. I love travel, reading, smoking lots of weed, collecting old records, eating raw vegan food, practicing yoga and obsessing over other people’s dogs and cats. I am married to my high school sweetheart Kitty.I am fiercely independent and always have been. I self-released my first album when I was just a kid back in 1997 and I self-published my first book way back in 2001. That was long before the days of indie authors and ebooks! Over the years, Kitty and I have created record labels, booking agencies, film and television production companies, publishing houses and more.Currently my focus is as a writer and publisher - authoring books across many genres from nonfiction (music business, motivation, musicology) to fiction (thrillers, steamy romance and pulps), poetry and memoirs. I also have a daily blog and host several podcasts.When I was a kid, Tiny Tim (the guy that sang “Tip-Toe Through The Tulips”) was my babysitter and neighbor. He taught me how to play the ukulele! When I was in elementary school I was a totally weirdo (I guess things never really change). I was obsessed with writing and music history. I started trading correspondence with authors Hubert Selby, Jr. and Nick Tosches. I also befriended musicians Tom Waits and Leon Redbone while I was still in middle school. I attended an Arts High School which is where I met my soulmate Kitty. Together we failed our way through high school and I graduated earning the lowest possible grade...while still being allowed to get a diploma. I remember the principal telling us that we would never have a career in the arts and that I specifically was a total failure as a creative artist and as a human being.Two decades have since passed and I have made my living solely as a professional working artist. In fact, I have no resume or job history - other than pursuing my own schemes and dreams over the years!Along the way, I taught myself how to be a filmmaker and ended up getting into the world of corporate video production. My clients included: the Pentagon (US Department of Defense), MTV, Disney Channel, Interscope, Island-Def Jam, KidzBop, Sony, Whole Foods and even Justin Bieber. I also directed dozens of music videos, short films and a few features as well. My 2015 feature length documentary film Jug Band Hokum included appearances by humorist Garrison Keillor, bluesman Charlie Parr and Grammy winning rap legends Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. The film had a successful run at major film festivals and independent cinemas around the world. And our entire production budget was $600.I love working through limitations and finding creative ways of self-producing creative content!Kitty and I co-created and self-financed a kids television show that ended up earning six regional Emmy Award nominations and was broadcast on over 150 PBS member stations nationwide and in 175 countries on the AFN Family Channel on Trinity Broadcasting Network. We spent just under ten thousand dollars to make the entire series. At the time, one reviewer called it “Barney meets the Black Eyed Peas”, because we were doing electro hip-hop music for preschoolers. LOL.Speaking of film stuff, I am a horrible actor but somehow I have appeared in a few films, including roles opposite Woody Harrelson and Laura Dern in Wilson (2016) and an unfortunate stint as a prisoner in the Tom Six cult horror film The Human Centipede III: Final Sequence (2015). In 2017, we wrote and performed four original songs for the Oscar nominated Willem Dafoe film The Florida Project (A24) which was made by director Sean Baker (Tangerine). The Florida Project premiered at the 49th edition of Cannes Directors’ Fortnight as part of the Cannes Film Festival. Pretty wild stuff.I no longer performing live, however over the years I have opened for: Norah Jones, Willie Nelson, Dave Van Ronk, Leon Redbone and the Squirrel Nut Zippers (to name a few). A few years ago, Kitty and I were given the incredible opportunity to perform in 19 countries for the US Pentagon, where we entertained military families in Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. We’ve also performed at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC and at the legendary Bluebird Cafe in Nashville, Tennessee. We actually lived in Nashville for a while and really loved our time in Music City!In late 2019, we released Two Stalkers One Goal, a memoir co-written with Kitty. It is an inspiring book offering hope and healing for victims of stalking, cyberstalking, narcissistic abuse, gossip and bullying. We are survivors of a story so crazy that, well, you just have to read the book! ;)This is a great time to be a creative artist and independent creator. The makers movement has only just begun and I couldn’t be more grateful to be along for the wild ride through the golden age of creative content.Connect with me at:http://www.jackandkitty.comhttp://www.instagram.com/mrjacknortonhttp://www.twitter.com/mrjacknorton

Book preview

Two Stalkers One Goal, or: How the Science of Implosions Nearly Destroyed Our Lives

Two Stalkers One Goal, or: How the Science of Implosions Nearly Destroyed Our Lives

Jack Norton

Kitty Norton

Norton Family Media

Contents

Two Stalkers One Goal

Foreword: What’s In The Box?

Introduction

Act One

1. The Science Of Implosions

2. Imploding Kitty, or: A Tale of Two Kitties

3. The Wisconsin Blaster

Intermission

4. Two Blasters, One Goal

Act Two

5. The Psychology Of Blasters, Crews And Implosions

6. Imploding Jack, or: Jack Of All Trades, Master Of None

7. The Minnesota Blaster

The Grand Finale

8. Warning Sirens

9. Collapsing Inward

10. The Art Of Rebuilding After An Implosion

Hope, The Chameleon

11. Introduction

12. The Castle In The Sky

13. The Executioners

14. The Underworld

15. The Tree And Her Cemetery Of Soldiers

16. The Arena And The Dance

17. The Ribbon

18. The History Of Her Story

19. The Choice

20. The Chameleon

21. The Cloak And Dagger-less

22. The Blaster

23. The End

About The Authors

Special Thanks

Disclaimer

Two Stalkers One Goal

Dedicated to the Truth.

---

"Then you will know the truth,

and the truth will set you free."

(John 8:32)

Foreword: What’s In The Box?

Fans of cinema may recall the insanely creepy ending to Se7en from talented filmmaker David Fincher. Brad Pitt’s character repeatedly screams: What’s in the box? to co-star Morgan Freeman, as a sociopathic Kevin Spacey watches the action, a gleeful grin on his twisted face. Rather than start our book out with a major spoiler from a great film, we’re not going to tell you what was in Brad’s box - rather, we’ll focus on what was in our box.

It may not be quite as creepy as…well, just go watch the movie. When you’re done, come back and read the rest of this Foreword.

Or, keep reading - if scary movies aren’t your thing.

Ok, now that we’re all back and on the same page, let me tell you what was in our box:

A used, very bloody tampon.

A discarded coffee cup with shimmery, hot pink lip gloss stains on its white plastic lid.

A series of pictures (printed on glossy photo paper) of us, embracing each other on our couch. They were taken from outside our apartment window.

A day planner, actually seven years’ worth of day planners: listing everywhere we have been and every person we may have interacted with while there.

Thousands of photos downloaded from the internet, neatly printed and catalogued in a series of scrapbooks. Each photo was labeled with a date, time and location of where the image was (most likely taken) and the names of any friends or acquaintances that were with us in the picture.

The books we have previously published. They had been self-printed and self-bound in three ring binders. Meticulously notated, highlighted and marked up - looking like they belonged to a hard-working detective in an old gangster movie, searching for clues written within the lines of our own published words. Lines of Kitty’s original writing such as: Remember, I grew up in the ghetto and was raised on ghetto dranks: orange soda, cherry KoolAid and Ting. * were marked with scribbled notes-to-self in the margins of the book with questions like: what brands of soda does she now like? and Buy her Ting.

What else was in the box?

The schematics based on the original architect blueprints made in 1920 of the quaint southwest Minneapolis apartment building where we rented a small two bedroom flat.

A password book with nearly every log-in and password for all of our social media accounts, email accounts, bank accounts and website passwords.

A spreadsheet with the names, phone numbers and email address of every business associate we ever worked with including the date the project was publicly announced, the distribution channels for each project and the official release date of each project or event.

A video burned onto a Walgreens DVD. What was the video? It showed Kitty and one of her best friends from yoga class. The girls had had a bit too many glasses of wine and sent me a text of them playfully French kissing for a few seconds. I definitely wasn’t jealous…I mean, come on - be honest: what red-blooded husband wouldn’t love to see his wife flirtatiously kissing another woman? Moral judgments aside, please understand that this video was filmed in selfie mode on Kitty’s iPhone and texted to Jack. No one else. But somehow, it too - was in our box.

An old toothbrush. More specifically, Kitty’s old toothbrush.

A series of photos taken at our live events, all of which had Jack’s face blacked out with a Sharpie.

A box of unused, unopened condoms. A roll of unopened duct tape. 100 feet of paracord.

And, a Bible.

King James Version.

Very well read, and also meticulously notated and highlighted.

A photo of Kitty talking to a group of young children after a show at a county fair in Wisconsin was used as a bookmark. The passage highlighted was from Matthew 10:28. It reads…

And fear not them which kill the body,

but are not able to kill the soul:

but rather fear him, which is able to

destroy both soul and body in hell.

There were more things in the box too.

In reality, the box was two boxes, several very large oversized scrapbooks and some additional memorabilia in some brown paper grocery bags.

We were handed this material during a very awkward meeting at a small cafe in rural Wisconsin by the estranged daughter of one of our stalkers. At the time, we didn’t know what to think.

I guess, we still don’t really know what to think.

And that’s the point of what makes stalking so torturous for the victim: the never-ending nature of the crime. It’s like being held in a prison that you may not even know you are locked in. We didn’t know we were in this prison for many, many years, as a matter of fact. But one day you find out that you are locked inside, and the stalker is your warden.

What is truly heinous about stalking is that there is usually no conclusion, no finality, no true The End moment. If stalking were a movie, it would be very unsatisfying for the audience because it may just never end. Sure, the experts say that some stalkers move on to other victims, but for the rest of your life you will be left wondering if they truly have moved on. You will always question every email, every call, every text, every new person you meet.

Reality blurs into something of a nightmarish dream: where things don’t appear as they truly are, or, maybe they do and you’re just scarred from the past. Victims of stalkers are usually not paranoid, they are just hyper-aware of the threat lurking in the vast unknown.

This book is our attempt to illuminate the darkness. It’s our attempt to suss out the monsters hiding under the bed, to rid the closet of all its skeletons, to let go and rebuild our lives. If you are a victim of a stalker, be it physical or cyber (or in our case, both), this book is for you. If you suffer from abuse, bullying or gossip, our story may provide you with comfort and guidance as well. We do not claim to have all the answers, and we’ve learned long ago that most people that claim to have all the answers only do so to sell you something. We’re not selling you anything, we are simply sharing our story in hopes that other victims will be comforted in knowing they are not alone.

We also have a selfish reason for telling our story: to take back our lives and boldly go forward into the future with confidence that the court of public opinion will hold us in its favor. We never have claimed to be perfect, but can guarantee that everything our stalkers have said is a well-crafted series of lies, specifically designed to destroy our personal and professional lives.

Why do stalkers do this?

It is not because they love you. True love is never obsessive.

It is not because they want you all to themselves. As we just said, true love is never obsessive.

It is not because they are weird, isolated loners living with their deceased mothers’ frozen in a block of ice in the basement as they chat about the end of the world to a room full of old baby doll parts and stuffed animals. Our stalkers were not particularly weird (perhaps lovably eccentric, but not outwardly, creepy, serial killer weird), and they certainly were not isolated loners. They each had a family and led an active social life.

Stalkers do this for one reason and one reason only: power.

They love the sense of power they get from seeing your life slowly destroyed.

They love the sense of power they get knowing they are behind the destruction.

They love the sense of power they get from watching fear take over your soul.

Remember Matthew 10:28:

And fear not them which kill the body,

but are not able to kill the soul:

but rather fear him, which is able to

destroy both soul and body in hell.

The ultimate rush for the stalker is to know you fear them. To know you know that they are able to destroy both your soul and your body. To know they have made your life a living hell.

It’s very telling that one of our stalkers bookmarked this passage from the Bible. There are 31,102 verses in the Bible. And our stalker focused on that one.

Why?

Fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body.

This says a lot. It demonstrates the rush your stalker feels knowing they have put you in a place of fear.

But what good is living a life of fear?

There is hope for anyone suffering from the paralyzing grip of terror. Awareness. Telling your story. Sharing with others. Being public. Going forward. Moving on. Breaking the chains of fear. Living, really living. That is how you beat your stalker.

They may always be there. They may also simply move on. But you can’t do anything to change their behavior. You can only change yours.

This book is our attempt to re-design, re-build and, consequently, re-live.

Thank you for joining us on this journey.

And hey - if you thought the stuff in our box was weird - you ain’t heard nothin’ yet! Read on, dear soul, read on…

---

* From The Unbecoming: I Lost 345 Pounds Naturally Using 5 Simple Steps...Now You Can Have A Better Body And Life Too! by Kitty Norton (Brizo Media Group, 2018).

Introduction

There are several key points we would like to make to ensure this book is an enjoyable experience for all readers. Please allow us to do so in this short, but important, Introduction. We would encourage you to not skip over this brief section of our book.

This book is written with two - very different - sections. Part One is called Two Stalkers One Goal and it was written in a much more traditional, memoir-styled narrative. There are no magical, mythical elements. It is a straightforward and honest account of our life dealing with two stalkers. The rest of this Introduction will serve as a guide for understanding Part One.

Part Two, however, is entitled, Hope, The Chameleon and it is an altogether different beast. It is a gothic fairytale. Kitty wrote this part of the book solo and it’s a fictional, magical take on essentially the same story. This title could be published as a stand-alone book and easily engage readers of fantasy and fans of surreal dreamscapes. It, too, chronicles the experience of having a stalker (and learning to find hope again), however Part Two does this in a much more fanciful and creative manner than that of Part One. We encourage readers to enjoy both takes on the same story. Please know, Part One provides readers with background information and context which will make Part Two a much more enriching experience.

Also, although not written for an all ages audience, Part One could be considered G or PG rated and is safe for the entire family. However, based on the language and content in Part Two, it could be considered R rated. We personally feel that all words should be celebrated (and none should be censored) and that there is nothing immoral about adult language. To quote Oscar Wilde: There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. We agree, and hope we’ve written a good book. Consider yourself warned regarding the adult language and content found in Part Two.

That said, let us use the rest of this introduction to expound upon some of what you will experience in Part One.

First, taking inspiration from classic pulp fiction books of the 1930s and 1940s, it was very common for an author to make a list of the principal characters in the book, while giving a very brief background of each character. This is largely considered outdated and somewhat antiquated by the modern reader of today, but we feel this will make the reading of our book more understandable. So, here we go…

Principal Characters

---

KITTY NORTON

Songwriter, musician and children’s television show creator and entertainer. Married to high school sweetheart Jack Norton.

---

JACK NORTON

Filmmaker, musicologist and children’s television show creator and entertainer. The less good-looking half of the Jack and Kitty musical duo.

---

WISCONSIN BLASTER

The stalker responsible for approximately 60 to 70% of our troubles. Passed away in 2019, Estranged Daughter helped us navigate some of his deviance. We believe we are aware of his real name and identity, though what we have been given may very well have been an alias, used for decades.

---

ESTRANGED DAUGHTER

The estranged daughter of Wisconsin Blaster. Provided us with The Box. Wishes to move on with her own life and has been very helpful as we do the same. Asked to remain anonymous for fear of any legal or social repercussions due to her estranged father’s criminal activities. We are more than happy to respect her wishes. Does not currently live in Wisconsin.

---

MINNESOTA BLASTER

The stalker responsible for approximately 30 to 40% of our troubles. Currently living and working in Minnesota. May or may not have stopped his sabotage pursuits. We are aware of his real name and identity.

You will notice that three of the Principal Characters in this book have strange names (Wisconsin Blaster, Minnesota Blaster and Estranged Daughter). This is not to protect their identities, rather, it is to not give the surviving stalker the glory of a searchable name and identity. It is our belief, and that of our lawyer’s as well as the several security experts we have employed, that naming our stalkers in a public forum may actually provide the surviving stalker with enjoyment, or a rush. We do not wish to give him this satisfaction.

Next, readers will naturally ask if we have reported the physical and digital stalking you will read about in this book to the police. In short, we have, and we haven’t. Allow us to explain. We were given physical proof of Wisconsin Blaster’s stalking months after his death. It seems that Minnesota Blaster’s stalking is currently not happening, although he is still alive and well.

We have reported the issues raised in this book to the Minnesota Secretary of State and are currently enrolled in their