Overview

• Stalking Samantha: 13 Years of Terror premiered on August 19 on Hulu and Disney+, with streaming also available on JioHotstar.
• Christopher Thomas, 41, is incarcerated in Michigan serving a 40–60 year sentence after a December 2023 guilty plea to kidnapping, torture and aggravated stalking.
• Prison records list Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility as his location and note the earliest possible release in July 2062, with lifetime GPS monitoring required if he is freed.
• Samantha Stites reported that Thomas tracked her with covert GPS devices and, on October 7, 2022, held her for nearly 14 hours in a soundproof bunker he built inside a storage unit.
• Months before the abduction, an ex parte protection order request was denied, and the case later led Michigan courts to require referees to review prior protection orders; initial sexual-conduct charges were dropped under the plea.