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[♪ dramatic music playing]

[whooshing]

[distorted radio chatter]

-But you're wrong! -...encroach any required setback area to a point--

[Melissa] This is my crazy neighbor.

She thinks it's her property, but it's not,

it's mine.

It's part of the original property I bought.

[whooshing]

[Johnny] The land below my feet

used to be beautiful St. Augustine grass.

And now it's weeds, thanks to my next-door neighbor.

[Melissa] I will demolish anything that she thinks

that she's going to do. I don't care.

I will protect my property.

It's as simple as that.

[Andy] The game he's playing is very dangerous.

He don't realize that.

[Johnny] On the outside he looks like a sheep,

but on the inside, he's a wolf.

[Johnny] My name's not David, you dumbass.

♪♪

[lawnmower whirring]

Melissa approached me before she bought the house

right next to me, behind me.

She came out, she was very friendly.

And she was like, "Oh, yeah, it's a great neighborhood.

You'll love it here."

So, she's been my neighbor for almost 16 years.

I mean, I've gone as far as picking her kids up

from school for her.

Her son actually used to babysit for me with my dog.

We've been friends since I moved in,

up until a month and a half ago.

You're not gonna cut the grass.

My attorney said you're not to cut the grass.

I'm to cut the grass. It's my property.

I will cut it because I'm not getting fined

by code enforcement.

I've cut it every single week.

You cut it on top of him cutting it, it was weeds.

Giving 35 feet away

on somebody's whim

is just not an option.

I'm doing the fucking lawn.

[lawnmower revving]

[♪ intense percussive music playing]

Now, she's gonna be furious.

[Johnny] So, my nightmare started,

I believe it was the year 2000,

when my next-door neighbor, Ortiz, moved in.

He cut 60 inches up into my yard.

That's three-widths of a lawnmower.

And he used to mow the maintenance road

with his own personal lawnmower.

So, he took the weeds from the canal,

and in a day or two, the weeds

started growing right on that line.

So, this is what the grass used to look like.

Like I said, it was just beautiful St. Augustine,

and he killed his, killing mine.

When you take away something that somebody else has

and you don't have it, that's envy.

That's one of the seven deadly sins.

Two, three, four months later, he did it again.

I put these little concrete pyramids

right on the property line. Passive-aggressive.

But I don't wanna have to talk to him about it.

If I didn't document all the times

that he was screaming at me,

you wouldn't believe it. No one would.

[Johnny] No matter how small

or insignificant you think it is,

I know why he's doing it.

He would be considered an obsessed stalker.

[camera beeping]

-[police radio chatter] -[siren wailing]

-[knocking] -[officer] Victoria.

Worst case, you don't touch it.

-I don't want to touch it. -[officer] So leave it alone.

Why bother-- Don't poke the bear.

Come on, Victoria.

Melissa called the cops. She called the cops.

Oh, God, do I have great words, but I can't use them.

That's just a cunt.

I mean, come on-- I mean, really?

She's a compulsive, uh, liar. Compulsive.

She had went to the city

and got these "No Trespassing" signs,

and she put them right on my property.

I come home from the police station.

Uh, it was at that point

that she pulled up the signs.

I walked outside, and there's Victoria

acting like a mad woman.

Victoria, I'm gonna have you arrested

-if you keep touching my shit. -No, you're gonna be arrested.

After she hit me with the one sign,

I went inside and called the police.

And the cop came and Victoria was like,

"Oh, my God, did you see her? She just hit me with the thing."

And I'm-- And the cop goes,

"No, she just threw it on the ground."

I don't wanna be attacked again either.

I mean, she physically took those signs

and was stabbing me in the back

and throwing those signs. [chuckles]

She's always been crazy. But she was my neighbor, so.

So, this is Victoria's wedding.

[♪ solemn music playing]

When you push and you push and you push me,

which she has done at this point, then enough.

I'm looking for a gun.

So, I go into people's homes all the time

'cause I do notary work, right?

-[Stanley] Okay. -[Melissa] I do mortgages, okay?

I don't like carrying my gun, my Glock.

It's just too heavy for me.

First of all, we have to analyze.

What's your need? What's your want?

Hi, I'm Stanley Zamor, I'm one of the managers here

at Nexus Shooting in Davie, Florida.

I always hate to hear that,

"Here's what happened. Here's what happened with my neighbor.

"Here's what happened to me. This is what-- This is what happened to me.

And now I want to protect myself." It's like,

why do we have to wait for something

-unfortunate to happen? -[Melissa] Till that, yeah.

I think people start thinking afterwards, you know?

-Exactly, so, exactly. -You don't think it can happen, and then it does.

[Victoria] She's psycho that way.

I have a gun in the house as well.

But I am not as practiced as she.

I mean, I do have like 1,000 bullets, though.

I hope it's unloaded.

[♪ quirky, unsettling music playing]

I don't have my glasses on.

-[metallic thudding] -[♪ music stops]

Oops.

Who's good with guns?

Who's-- Who's good with guns?

[Victoria] I can't tell.

Don't worry, I'm not stupid enough to...

[Victoria] You can tell me, actually.

[Victoria] It might have something in the chamber.

Just because of security purposes.

[♪ dramatic music playing]

[Johnny] So, some of you out there

think that I'm the crazy one or the stalker.

Well, this is my next-door neighbor, the Vietnam vet.

He's got cameras pointed directly at my driveway,

at my house.

He's got a contraption

just like this in the backyard,

pointed at my swimming pool.

Anything he says is a possibility.

Basically, if you cross that, your life could be ended.

Because that's my Stand Your Ground law.

And as far as it being electrified,

be my guest, test it.

-She wants to put rocks down. -[lawyer] Excuse me, ma'am.

-Okay. -[lawyer] Don't, ma'am...

-[dog barking] -Oh, this dog. Jack?

-[lawyer] Ma'am. Ma'am. -Okay.

My name is Jack Quincy Rohn.

This-- this is probably one of the dumbest arguments

I've ever seen.

Yeah, everything is just, you know,

a lie with Victoria.

She was selling drugs out of the house.

There are lots of cars all the time.

It's like a rotating door.

I have a friend that just showed up the other night

and Jack came out.

Jack didn't recognize him, and he told him,

"Jack, remember, I used to give you ten bucks for your pee

when I had to get a piss test."

And I'd say, "Guys, before you go to school, please."

The bowl! I put it in the-- in the toilet.

The kids aren't being exposed to anything bad.

All they have to do is pee.

There's nothing illegal about that.

And I have the twins, and they go to a private school.

Everybody's got money.

But I had to survive and pay the bills.

That's the bottom line.

Uh, you know, I wasn't getting any help.

We didn't see their father for years.

[♪ bright music playing]

My Adonis husband!

Come on, Daddy.

He's in fabulous shape.

Look how good he looks. Look!

I am so lucky because my ex-husband, Charles,

is here doing my roof.

For 57, that man is in perfect shape.

Don't give him all those. You don't even have towels

-inside for the kids. -He asked them!

What?

Don't give him a good-- any decent towels.

These aren't-- These are, uh-- All the--

Oh, whenever I take-- try to take a shower here,

there's no towel, so I don't understand.

[Victoria] Little boys, you're all the same.

Find your weak spots.

Give you plenty of attention. Feed you properly.

But you praise and it all comes up.

You get anything you want.

I want to be so normal

but there's just nothing normal about this situation.

♪♪

[Johnny] Yeah, I find all this all on the side of the road

when people throw it out. If you see it, you grab it.

[♪ solemn music playing]

[Johnny] If you don't have a picture to back it up,

it's just hearsay.

And that's what Ortiz is known for. Hearsay.

So, I've been taking pictures my whole life.

So, I took all these file-- photos to share

with whoever I was in a relationship with,

hopefully that they would have photos and stories to tell, too.

This is what my grass used to look like

before he killed it, this is January 2009.

And this is how beautiful the grass was, all of it.

That, I just happened to catch a double rainbow.

So, that was the first time I ever opened up an egg

and had two yolks in it.

So, this is a couple of lizards having sex

on a mailbox when I was out delivering mail.

This is a couple of toads having sex,

actually, like, by my front door.

Every time Ellen DeGeneres

came to Universal Studios Orlando

to film her shows, I went to every show.

[crowd gasping and exclaiming]

[laughter and applause]

[contestant] That was cool!

[Johnny] That's me.

So, I love The Ellen DeGeneres Show

because it makes me smile.

It makes me laugh.

The silly stuff that she does brightens my day.

[♪ uplifting music playing]

And it actually got me through a lot of crap

that I've had to deal with, my psycho neighbor.

The reason why you see me?

Because I parked myself near a kid.

-[camera clicking] -'Cause I know camera guys,

they love kids.

Boop. Well, they thought--

They would think that she's my daughter

'cause we have both the same color hair.

So, that's why I stood near her.

I know.

[♪ upbeat music playing]

[Melissa] We're at a boat show.

We're at the West Palm Beach boat show.

Can you imagine flying around on that boat?

-That's a great boat. -[Mick] That's a great boat.

Which boat do you wanna buy, Mick?

I wanna buy all of 'em.

Victoria is taking me to mediation.

-Oh, so now she changed her tune. -Right.

Because she's been supposedly mowing the lawn.

Right, and she hasn't been.

Isn't that a cool boat?

That is absolutely crazy, those bees.

Look at 'em all!

-[bees buzzing] -So, Melissa is a Greek name

and it's a honeybee goddess.

[Mick] So, so, what's gonna happen when it's, like,

resolved? Is it like a kumbaya moment, you know,

-and everything's all-- -Then we--

Then I put up my big bushes

and I guess I'm the queen bee.

[laughing]

[♪ bright music playing]

[Victoria] Oh, Lance is here.

Hey, Lance!

-I've known him for years. -No, no, no, no.

Like, we've, we've known each other for a long time.

But I'm helping her with the whole...

-[producer] Neighbor. -...the neighbor.

-Well, I saw you-- -Hold on, hold on, hold on.

I saw him messing with the-- I saw...

Okay, okay.

My name is Lance Burge. I'm a real estate broker.

I sold Victoria Rohn's, uh, this house,

and we've come into a situation with the neighbors.

It's gettin' pretty ugly.

In Brazil, they'll cut your reproductive organs off

if you take this much land that's not yours.

[slicing whooshes]

[blade whirring]

[Jack] She stays here for, like, probably half a year,

or just three months or something.

So, usually when she, um, was gone,

we could just walk in,

'cause I know the-- the code to her gate.

So, I could just walk in

and then swim for as long as I wanted to.

I mean, that was the only real access to a pool

that I had. [chuckles]

The pool, it's right there.

If I can get these branches out, I can probably help you see.

You gotta zoom in, probably.

[birdsong]

[♪ curious music playing]

[Melissa] With Cooper in my life...

you know, I feel like I have a child in the house

all the time, so.

So, Cooper's meal consists of sushi-grade salmon,

chia seeds, organic broccoli,

goat liver, beet kraut,

chicken heart, chicken foot,

sardine head, flaxseed oil,

and bee pollen.

He's on a raw diet, and the first thing

he goes for is his chicken foot.

[Johnny] When will it end?

America, I'm calling on you.

And I can sell this house, and get far away

from the beautiful, sunny skies of Florida.

[chuckles] It's a great place to visit,

but you don't want to live here when

your next-door neighbor is a lunatic.

All through the '90s,

I was an entertainer-slash-dancer.

Yeah, my stage name was the Italian Stallion.

If my next-door neighbor Ortiz is sexually attracted to me,

it would make sense why he's part of my life every day.

It would make sense. It would justify

how crazy obsessed he is with me.

I'm not gay. Not even close.

I don't even like shaking hands with dudes.

I don't even have very many guy friends

because I'm-- not homophobic--

I just know that they wanna bang my chicks.

So, that's why they're friends with me.

I can tell who's friend and who's not.

Just for the pussy, just for whatever.

[Johnny] Says he's gonna blow my brains out.

See the gun in his T-shirt there?

Oh, you got your gun? You got your gun, old man?

Ortiz is the reason why I haven't seen

any of my family since 2012.

I actually have a step-aunt that lives on Barker Street.

I don't know if she's still alive.

Can't leave. How am I supposed to leave during the day?

I can't sell this house because I can't get my stuff

out of the house. He doesn't want me to.

He wants everybody to be here watching my every move.

Like, what? The Truman Show.

I feel like I am Truman,

only I know I'm being watched.

Hey, look, it's [bleep] stalking me.

Stalker!

You'll see yourself on Facebook.

So, one of my neighbors just left this by my front door.

I dumped it out because I don't know if they poisoned it or not.

Oh, look at you sticking your hands

inside the freakin' mail truck.

Federal crime.

Wonder if it was my mail that he was stealing today.

He used to record me every day,

uh, and I just stopped paying attention to him.

That, that-- He still records me, but not as much.

That's what kind of pissed me off about him.

I, I yelled at him one day

and it didn't do nothin'.

He, he started recording more.

Well, I'm not supposed to stop, like, you know,

and stay too long.

But, if a customer has a question,

I could, I could answer the question.

[♪ tense music playing]

[Johnny] In order to get help,

I need at least one of my videos to go viral,

because then they will see other videos,

and they will see that I am being terrorized

by my next-door neighbor.

Once that happens, they will swarm him

with a net and a tranquilizer dart gun

to take him down,

because he belongs in a cage.

And this is where, the part where I think

you're trying to get me arrested.

[Johnny laughing]

[Johnny] I know. If I go to jail,

I will eventually get out.

Just saying.

I don't have kids.

You guys will eventually get married and have kids.

See what I just did there? Those words?

-[producer] Uh-huh. -Words of terror.

-[producer] Right. -That's what Ortiz

has been doing to me for 22 years.

I'm just telling you 'cause now you're thinking.

And that's what he does.

Oh, I-- You're hoping I'm faking, I'm joking.

About threatening your kids' lives.

[♪ tense music playing]

[landscaper] Don't do this. Don't do this.

Don't put me in the middle of your situation.

-Hold on. What happens-- -[Melissa] Get off my property,

or I'm gonna call the police.

I'm not this type of person.

This is so stupid.

But you will not take

what I have put everything into.

And no one's gonna encroach my property.

At all.

It is a-- a sanctity.

My home is my sanctity.

Lucky I didn't have-- because I was prepared to go out there.

And I would've...

Because at this point, we can both say

that we fear for our lives.

And we have no problem shooting the other at this point,

because I know she'll shoot me, and she's the better shot.

So, she'll end up killing me.

And it will come down to that.

Thank God she's going home in two weeks

after this mediation,

because this could really escalate.

Okay. Good afternoon, everyone. How are you today?

-Good, how are you? -I'm fantastic.

I am actually a Florida Supreme Court

certified mediator.

Besides doing this, um,

as a hobby that I turned into something I like to do.

As a profession, I also am a Florida Supreme Court

certified mediator and qualified arbitrator.

Conflict is inevitable. Can't get away from it.

She's a fucking liar!

"Your grass is starting to get--

You better change it out."

Is that what she says about your grass?

Yes, which is her grass, apparently.

What do you want to see happen?

Doesn't matter. I don't get my way.

I mean, from what I understand,

-what I hope to get-- -The only understanding

that I hope you realize

is as I'm getting older and as you get older,

because you and I are going to be in our 80s,

living next to each other,

that it is me and me only

that will be doing the landscaping

for the rest of my life.

Chances are I'll die of a heart attack,

a heat stroke in the backyard,

and no one will find me for a week.

When are the-- When are the signs coming down?

Yeah, when, when-- The signs--

They would have come down on Monday!

As soon as I'm strong enough to lift them up.

I-- I'll take them out of the ground for you.

Is that something that you would mind doing?

I, I-- Really, I can get

-my-- my son, so... -[Stanley] Okay.

If you take and you keep taking,

and you keep taking, there are people that just take.

But I have to make a stand on certain things

that I cannot do.

She doesn't give a shit, she doesn't have a heart.

She doesn't have a heart. She could care less.

That's why she has no men.

She's a pussy, and that's it.

And maybe they can fuck her with the big tits.

Other than that, she's not good for anything.

That's why she's alone with no friends.

I guess I feel good because hopefully,

she understands now that that's my property,

and I can get back to normal.

I don't want her in my house anymore.

I don't want her in my pool anymore.

For all I know, she's gonna slip and fall,

and it's gonna be my fault.

Getting her to take the signs out would be great,

'cause it'd be a good ending, you know?

You want Jack to come over here and stand with me

-and we can shake hands? -[Jack] Really?

[Melissa] Yeah, at the end of the episode,

you and I will be holding sha-- Stand on the grass.

-It really should be Mom that does this. -Or stand on your side.

-But what-- Yeah. -No, I'd rather you, please.

-Huh? -Stand right there.

-Yeah. -Stand here.

-Alright, ready? Shake my hand. -Uh-huh.

[♪ upbeat music playing]

[dog barking]

[♪ dramatic music playing]

[judge] Alright, good morning, everybody.

This is case number 2022 DR20351,

Andres Ortiz and John Rayola.

This is a petition for an injunction

for protection against stalking violence.

Mr. Ortiz, you're the petitioner.

-It's your burden to prove... -[melodic ringtone playing]

...uh, whatever it is you say is going on.

-[ringtone continues] -Mr. Rayola,

because he's the petit--

[Johnny] Hello?

You can't answer your phone in court.

Can you call me back? I'm in court right now.

[judge] Tell me what you say has occurred

that amounts to stalking.

[judge] Okay, Mr. Rayola, it's your turn.

You wanna ask Mr. Ortiz any questions

about something he said?

Six years ago, when I put my--

[judge] Ask him a simple question.

-This is a simple question. -[judge] No, it's not.

Okay. Well, that was a simple question,

but you don't know the rest of it

'cause you didn't let me finish.

And that's okay, I'll change my quest--

-Just ask him a simple question. -[Johnny] Simple question.

Why do you have eight houses stalking me?

-[judge] Eight what? -Eight houses.

He has people in every house,

in one section of a street,

staying home, taking turns stalking me.

I avoid all my neighbors. I don't want to talk to them,

because I don't know them.

I told him many times,

"Stay away, I'm not gay."

And this man just keeps coming at me.

That's not, that's not a lie.

[judge] Okay, hold it. Hold it.

You can't tell him he's a liar.

[♪ tense percussive music playing]

Well, he just called me a liar.

[judge] Stop it. I told you, it doesn't matter.

This, this will never end.

I, I wish I had a magic wand that can figure out

how the two of you would leave each other alone,

but I don't.

But this isn't stalking.

I'm dismissing your petition again.

So, the verdict today was a dismissal.

My next-door neighbor once again

brought me here to waste my time and the court's time.

One of us will be dead out in front of my house.

Yeah, that's the long term.

If they don't Baker Act him, one of us will have to die.

That's what a lawyer told me five years ago.

He said the only way it's gonna stop

is if one of you kills the other.

Yeah, and he was-- Here we are, six years later.

[♪ tense music playing]

[Victoria] Hold on. I'm fucking furious.

Why is it on my property then,

when I can't go on her fucking property?

I mean, if they-- they-- That little pussy girl,

she can't even plant her own plants.

What the fuck?!

I'm not gonna be responsible!

If they're on the property line,

-I'm responsible! -No, they're not!

Yes, that is the law!

-It is not, Victoria. -Alright. Ah, okay.

Guess what? I'll print it out for you.

It's going right on--

No, it isn't! I--

[♪ dramatic music playing]

[Melissa] You see where the line is.

The line is over here, Victoria.

-Don't-- -[plants thudding]

You motherfucker.

Good! They're on my property.

-[Victoria] Good! -[plant thuds]

They're on my property!

That we have on video.

'Cause it's on the property!

[Melissa] Is she fucking nuts?

Get them off the property line!

[Melissa] She's gonna go to jail for that.

Uh, she will.

It's not even on the line.

It's on my side of the property.

Do not engage? How? She's on my property.

She knocked on my front door.

She's in my driveway, throwing my plants around.

If you guys aren't gonna get here,

I'm gonna sit outside here with my gun,

and I'm gonna protect myself.

-[sirens wailing] -Oh! Hi!

-[♪ dramatic music continues] -[knocking]

-Victoria, it's police. -[dog barking]

Honestly,

this isn't my problem, it's theirs.

I'm, like, not even part of it.

[officer] Sorry to bother you, here.

I literally just walked over and said...

"But you've got these on the property line,

they need to be moved over."

I mean, she starts throw--

Yeah, see, here they go. Here go--

Here goes the, the...

[officer] I can't see what's happening behind the car, though.

And then, what happens to all the damage that she did to my--

I mean, read the statute, the statute reads,

"irreparable damage."

So, you're telling me that's reparable?

That can be repaired. Just put it back in the,

-in the pot. -"Permanent damage."

You do have a right

to formally trespass-warrant her from your property.

Because she wants us to do it to you.

So, she can't go on my prop-- Yes!

-That's what I'm saying. -My guess-- Yeah.

-'Cause I'm, I'm warning you. -Yeah. That's right.

Well, we're here to document and keep the peace.

Okay? And prevent people from, you know,

throwing plants and yelling at each other.

We're not the civil police.

[dog barking]

[♪ dramatic music playing]

-[barking] -[Melissa] Cooper!

Oh, how the hell did he get out of the house?!

-Grab him! No, no! -[Cooper barking]

[Victoria] Oh, no! Arrest her!

She's illegally on my property!

-Ma'am, calm down. -[Victoria] Arrest her!

-See how stupid that is? -[door slams]

I want formal charges now that she's on my property!

You see how that can happen?

Arrest her!

[officer] Wrong behavior.

Look, this is me trying to prevent it...

[Melissa] But this is-- but here's the--

...with a trespass warrant.

[Melissa] But here's the issue with wrong behavior,

it's gone from something little,

to something more, to something more,

to this,

to she owns a gun. When's it gonna stop?

[♪ tense, dramatic music playing]

And I'm going to plant right on the line!

Whether she likes it or not.

♪♪

I, I just don't trust her.

It's very difficult to trust somebody that does this to you

after you've been such a good friend to them forever.

[♪ solemn music playing]

Yep. [grunts] Mommy, what has happened here?

[crying] And I don't like fighting, and it's not right.

But you have given me this house.

And I will protect it with every...

[sighs] ...ounce of energy I have to protect our home.

[Melissa] I don't know what's gonna happen to her.

It would be nice if I had-- no longer had a neighbor.

I think I might buy the property and expand my house that way.

When you buy a house, you're buying the neighbors.

And if you don't know who your neighbors are,

you just bought a house...

[doorbell ringing]

...in a nightmare section of a street.

[Victoria] She really does not know me.

♪♪

[satellite beeping]

[beeps echoing]