Stalking Mary

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One Man's Fifteen-Year Obsession With His High-School Teacher

Stalking Mary: One Man's Fifteen-Year Obsession With His High-School Teacher is the story of Ming Sen Shiue (shoo) who spent more than a decade obsessing about and secretly stalking his high school algebra teacher, Mary Stauffer. His obsession culminated in the kidnapping of Mary, along with her eight-year-old daughter Beth, in the spring of 1980.

Shiue held Mary and Beth captive in his home for seven weeks, imagining the three of them to be a family, while videotaping his nightly assaults on Mary . Eventually, Shiue let his guard down and Mary and Beth were able to escape. Shiue was later tried for and convicted of the abductions and sentenced to federal prison for the crime.

Thirty years have passed and Shiue is now scheduled for prison release in the summer of 2010. In March a petition for his civil commitment as a sexually dangerous person will be heard in Anoka County, Minnesota district court. If the court determines Shiue to be a danger to society, he will be confined in a maximum security psychiatric facility for the remainder of his life. If he is successful in defending the petition, he will be a free man.

The object of his obsession Mary Stauffer and her husband spent many years as Baptist missionaries in the Philippines. They are now retired and living in the United States.