My Internet Stalker Nightmare (Ongoing, Please Read)
A lot of people have asked me for the “full” story about what’s going on here… so… here it is. This is a cliffsnotes version of it, mind you. This is a situation that hs been going ongoing for 15 years so it’s difficult to really summarize everything in any short order.
I am choosing to share my full story now because I am attempting to gather the funds to persue suing Mrs. Keister civilly for the years of torment and harassment she’s put me through. If you feel compelled to help me in my venture, please go to the following URL:
http://www.gofundme.com/helpmesuekak
My stalker is infamous in certain online art communities, where she is known as KAK, KIMMAUGH, Kim, and other variations thereof. She’s a psychopath 40 year old (allegedly) mentally challenged woman that literally has nothing better to do with her life than sit around and wreck havoc for people on the internet. She has her own EncyclopediaDramatica page, if that tells you anything about her level of harassing individuals over the years.
Our beef goes back to around 2001 or so. Kim was already somewhat infamous at that point I suppose, by that time she had already been featured on ‘Portal of Evil’ and had her own dedicated “call out” site. Unfortunately, half the shit she did in those early years pales in comparison to her current exploits. If you care to read more about Kim’s history with other people, I have to direct you to the above link. I’ll only be covering my own story (and those conjoined with me) in this post.
In those early years she was always just an internet lolcow, someone to laugh at. It was amusing when she would do things like pop up with new accounts leaving bizarre comments on my art galleries.
Part 2: “KimKeisterTheTruth”
I hadn’t heard from Kim in a long time - I had naively thought maybe she had moved on to other targets (and later, I learned she was in fact going after others during her downtime with me). Then, out of the blue one day in 2012 I got a strange email from someone claiming to be Kim’s mother, Barbara. The email was a strange paragraph about Kim with the link to a webpage. The webpage had several mentions of my name on it, with the indication that Kim believed that I was running “KIMMAUGH.com”, the original site about her made in the early 2000’s by usernames “John Keel” and “Jocko Jones” of Portal of Evil fame, and later “Loremaster” from EncyclopediaDramatica, as well as accused me of running Wikifur/hosting her Wikifur page. It further made clear that Kim was accusing me of attacking her physically and vandalizing her or her parent’s property.
I sit on this for a little while, trying to decide if I should even give her the time of day, before finally replying to tell Kim to not message me further and that I am not impressed with her charades. Very shortly thereafter I begin getting even stranger and more bizarre emails from the exact same address that had just emailed me claiming to be her mother
I got at least 10 emails similar to the ones above, all from the same address that initiated contact previously claiming to be Kim’s mother. Around the same time, someone using the name “TheKAKReporter” was burning up my art galleries (and those of many of Kim’s past victims) leaving comments like:
If you’ve read anything she’s written, you’ll easily recognize her characteristic bad spelling and grammar. At this point I wasn’t really sure what to do - is it illegal to threaten your own life? I guess not? I reported the account to the website administrator and it was subsequently banned.
As for the emails, I went to the police. I live in a very small town (population: 900) in western NC. The police did not take this situation seriously at all, and told me that if I was disturbed by the content of the emails to delete them without opening them and to change my usernames online. As an artist that’s built a reputation for years with clients online, that’s not really an option for me.
So, of course, I did the only thing I reckoned would get at her. I documented everything I had and sent copies of it all to EncyclopediaDramatica, where they were systematically documenting all of her shenanigans. I know this was probably a stupid move, but at this point Kim was still in the “internet crazy person” category, and not in the “possibly going to actually show up on my doorstep and kill me” category.
Either way, her deception was revealed and she wasn’t happy about it. She began emailing me as “herself” from a completely different address, now telling me how she “knew” someone was contacting me as her mother and it was all a huge lie. How would she ever know something like that unless she, herself, was the one that did it?
Shortly thereafter, I received another email in my box from the same address that previously was claiming to be Kim’s mother. This new email contained nothing but a link to a Blogger page. Upon viewing that link, I discovered that little Kimmy had been quite busy.
She had made a hugely elaborate page about me, with pictures of artwork done for me, photos she stole off my Facebook, and a judiciously edited version of a rather old drama page about me from many years ago. Kim had added in her own flair, inserting claims that I was a prostitute, that I was raped by my father, that I was divorced (????), and that my husband had sex with plush animals(??). The creepiest part of the whole thing, however, was that she had gone on Google and gotten screenshots of my home and address and included them in the page with her claims that I was a prostitute.
(Not going to share the whole thing becuase it’s like 12 screenshots long, but here are some highlights…)
I just.. what the heck? What the actual fuck? Of course I called the police again. They asked me if I knew who made the page, I told them yes of course, they asked me who it was and if they lived in NC, when I said no they went WELP SORRY CANT HELP YOU. Blogger at least took the fucking page down quickly enough when I filed reports on it.
During the same time period that this bizarre webpage/blog about me appeared, Kim also decided to begin stalking my real life activities. I volunteer at a breed specific rescue here in the mountains of NC, and I guess Kim figured it out from my Facebook. She sent them an email about me, telling them that I “abuse disabled people” and abuse animals.  The only saving grace is that I’m long-time friends with the president of the rescue and she knew instantly that the email was from the stalker I’ve been bitching about for ages, and so she forwarded it all to me as evidence to be used for my order.
At that point was when I went and got my first restraining order against Kim.
Thankfully the judge was more understanding than my local sheriff and police department, and after giving my evidence a quick look over he granted my petition. I had protection from Kim for a year.
Part 3: Dutifully Restrained
I figured that after having to take actual, real legal action against Kim I woudldn’t have to deal with her harassment anymore. I had hoped this would be the end of her forcibly inserting herself into life. Her very first victim (that I’m aware of, at least) had to get a restraining order against her back in the early 00’s and that seemed to end the situation for her. I, unfortunately, didn’t seem to be quite so lucky.
A few days after the sheriff called to let me know that Kim was served notice that I was filing a restraining order against her, a sheriff showed up at my doorstep. He said that a woman claiming to be Barbara Keister (Kim’s mother) had called the sheriff’s department and claimed that her daughter, Kim, had attempted suicide and had repeatedly blamed it on me. I briefly explained the situation to the deputy, and he - thankfully - stuck with the same level of apathy that I had previously been given and left without making a report because it was silly internet drama.
A week or two later, though, a sheriff was back on our doorstep. This time serving notice paperwork on me - Kim had retaliated by filing her own restraining order against me.
If I wasn’t clear about this before - I live in North Carolina. Kim lives in California. Kim has contacted me repeatedly, despite being told over and over again to leave me alone. I have made no attempts to contact Kim without provocation. When she has contacted me, I have only ever replied with “Stop contacting me, go away” or not replied at all.
At that point I didn’t really care too much about having a restraining order issued against me. After all, I told myself, it was just a restraining order and frankly it didn’t really mean too much to me because I was doing nothing to Kim. I had no intention of wasting the money to go to California to attempt to fight it and I figured that she probably just showed up and gave a sob story, that’s how she got it issued in the first place. My #1 goal was to have my order in place so that if/when she contacted me again I could go straight to the police and (hopefully) have them give a shit this time. Kim was granted her order against me about three months after I received mine against her, based on no evidence (at least, there was no evidence filed into the court record that I could retrieve) and soley becuase I did not show up to court for the hearing.
Again, this should have been the end of it.
For the period of my restraining order (1 year) I heard very little from Kim. During this time I set up an alert on Google that contained my name + her name, so that whenever a result came up in the index it would send me an email. This was the only way I could think of to attempt to monitor whatever crazy junk she was doing without actually actively seeking her out, thereby obeying the terms of the order she had taken out on me. Things were peaceful, mostly.
But then, no less than a week after my order expired, I began getting hits on my Google alert. Kim had made a Google+ social media account and was getting a lot of mileage out of it. I have screenshots of hundreds of posts she made, every one with my name mentioned in it in some way (often many, many times in a single post). She began to create elaborate stories about the things that I had supposedly done to her.
Around early 2015 was when Kim really doubled down on her Google+ postings about me. At this time I was just finishing up my third degree and was honestly pretty stressed out and over dealing with any bullshit, which I think is part of the other reason I just didn’t deal with Kim in any meaningful way. There was too much other important stuff going on with my life to bother with this dopey woman that was spewing nonsense, you know?
Then, 2016 rolled around.
Now she was claiming that I had raped her. Her story was that when she was 19 years old “we were in college together Loyola Marymount University” in Los Angeles, and that I had cornered and raped her in the showers “after basketball practice.” There were, of course, some immediate flaws with her story here - the most glaring that I have never attended that university, nor had ever until the last week of September 2016 set foot in California. Kim also claimed this supposed rape happened when she was 19 years old - that would have made me 13 years old during these alleged events.
(this was a reply to a comment on the above post. I am almost certain this “Robert” is a sockpuppet account of Kim. The name is VERY similar to one of her other victims, only with the trademark Kim misspelling.)
But then I finally discovered what she was doing during all that down time while I had my restraining order out.
Part 4: The Other Victims (A Note: I have changed all names of the other victims. These are all wonderful people that have stuck their necks out to do a great service for me and the world to help get Kim off the internet forever. Let them retain their anonymity.)
Amid all of these Google+ postings happening, there was another development - one that was amazingly fortuitous. You see, Kim aparently had moved on from the art world and had been causing trouble in the animal control community for a few years. This came as a surprise to me, when one day out of the blue I got a message on my art Facebook page from a person I had never heard of before.
As you can tell by my reply (dark grey), I was very hesitant about this entire situation. My husband and I internet detective’d the SHIT out of the woman that sent the message, and finally decided that she was, in fact, a real human being and not a Kim sockpuppet. I found the website for the rescue associated with the individual’s name, and called the number the next day. The woman - Carol - was quite lovely and we talked for almost two hours.
It would seem that during her downtime with me, Kim had been very busy.
Carol told me about what Kim had done to her - stolen her profile pictures off of Facebook and made profiles using both Carol’s name, as well as the name of another Real Person, then going on the page of the big nation-wide animal control officer’s association and making all kinds of nonsense posts with pornographic content. Further, Kim went on to make different profiles using the photos of an ACO from Alaska and then made a TON of false complaints against Carol and the animal rescue that she runs, claims of animal neglect/abuse and the like. Kim also went so far as to find pictures of Carol’s home and post those on a page, calling for people to go protest in front of her house because of her “animal cruelty” and to call her an animal hoarder.
Very shortly after this phone call with Carol, I get introduced to a small group of officers, all of whom have been victimized by Kim in some way or another. There are at least 20 officers in this group, perhaps a few more than that. I was completely and utterly dumbfounded to learn about all of this, and how far back her harassment of them went. .  Here is a VERY brief summary of things that Kim has done to various animal control officers:
Tim - Repeatedly emailed his employer, claiming that SHE KNEW someone online was impersonating him and she was certain their intent was to sexually harass him. She had no idea who it was though and could not give any evidence of this person???? This was clearly Kim pretending to be him, as the spelling and wording was her token style. Even more recently Kim claimed in 911 dispach calls to her local Sheriff that “someone” called her claiming to be Tim, and that this person “told her she was going to be arrested”. She actually called 911 to tell them this. 
Heather - Kim left reviews for where Heather works, claiming that she was “yelling at a mentally disabled child because they supposedly got too close to her dog”. She also claimed that Heather was abusing her dog in a video posted online where her dog was clearly excited and jumping around in her around-the-chest harness leash, sometimes pulling up on to her hind legs. Kim made an entire page about this video, claiming that Heather was “hanging” her dog and that there needed to be “justice” for the dog, etc, and labeled her as an animal abuser.
Kim also made a Facebook and twitter account using Heather’s name and filled it with filth and pornography, including quotes about how she liked “big black dicks in her ass” and close up shots of assholes etc. Kim then sent this page to Heather’s co-workers and superiors, which caused her to be issued probation and undergo extreme vetting by her city’s managers because they all believed these pages were really her. Kim’s actions here almost cost Heather her job.
Jake - This guy had the unfortunate circumstance of meeting Kim in person. She took some weekend / day long classes at the local college where she lived and Jake was one of her classmates. Kim became infatuated with Jake, and went around telling everyone that they were dating. Kim also sent Jake MANY nude photos and sexually explicit text messages, as well as “gifts” that were left at his place of work. Kim had been emailing Jake since AT LEAST 2006, and it was in one of these many emails that she began ranting and mentioned my name - which is how this group of officers found me.
And there’s more. So much more. But I think you guys really get the point. During her downtime with me, this is the evil that she was up to.
Part 5: Escalation Through late 2015 and into 2016 Kim began to blur her tactics, as you can see with her beginning to post these people’s homes and addresses and then going after me, where I volunteer, etc. At this point, nothing is sacred for this piece woman.
My life was very busy, and I just really still didn’t have a lot of time to “deal” with Kim beyond having a grump every now and then about her to friends. I kept documentation of what she was doing, and then promptly sat on it. I know it sounds kind of dumb to let this kind of activity go, and in retrospect I really should have re-applied for the restraining order sooner. I guess I just hoped eventually she would have a hate-stroke or something and would go away.
During all this time, Kim never abandoned the art community. She was still rambling around DeviantART, now harassing anyone she felt like lashing out at. Some people clearly caught on to who she was and got a bit of a kick out of poking fun at her, which just made her go into even more of a frenzy. Kim is ZiraLionKingFan, obviously.
Her theme of lesbianism is… quite prevalent.
It’s pretty interesting to me, actually, since she does to that whole “role reversal” thing, blaming people for things that she, herself, has done.
That thought actually terrifies me a little too, with all the animal abuse accusations she makes.
Kim also keeps popping up on Facebook, and attempting to add me as a friend. Why? WHY? I don’t know.
She never stopped her shit. During all this time she had STILL had a restraining order on me, because in California they last 3 years as opposed to the 1 year they last here in NC. I’m sure there’s some clause somewhere that if you try and contact the person you’ve restrained it voids your order, but in the end it doesn’t matter anyway because of what happened most recently.
Part 6: Standing up to Bullies
Little Kimmy here decided it was time to double down, AGAIN, on the bullshit she was doing. She began making claims on her social media that she was having to call the police, sometimes saying she was calling them multiple times a day. Always about me, or people that she had dubbed “my associates”. To read her entries about this (such as the one I posted previously), you’d think I was running a huge criminal enterprise. She had constructed this elaborate fantasy in her head that somehow I was in charge of a mafia of gang stalkers, all hell bent on making her absolutely miserable.
She went and filed for a renewal of the restraining order she had on me in August of this year. I received the paperwork on August 16. That kicked my ass into gear, and I went the same day and filed my restraining order back on her.
I decided no, I’m going a step further. When I went and filed my most recent restraining order, I realized that since Kim had used her parent’s names to contact me - or, possibly, her parents could somehow be implicit in this entire situation - I needed to cover all of my bases. I filed orders on both her AND her mother and father. I am done screwing around with this, and I have a pretty strong feeling that her parents have been ignorant up until this point of what kind of havoc their daughter has been causing.
On that same day, I spoke with all of the animal control officers that had been victimized by Kim, and they urged me to make a GoFundMe, so I could go out to California and fight this bullshit restraining order.
In less than three days, I raised $1,000. This went completely viral in the art communities where Kim is notorious for the stuff she did all those years ago. I literally sat here and cried, I was so overwhelmed with the kindness and generosity of so many people - so many complete strangers - that were willing to reach out and help me slam the door on this now-15-year-long saga of my life.
At this point, though, Kim knew I was coming. I know she saw the GoFundMe, and I hope to god she was shaking in her boots. She began to ramp up her posting (and 911 calls) even more. At this point I began to double down, collecting my evidence and organizing it to a really stupid level, because at that point being able to organize things was the only way I had to “control” the situation. Maybe a weird coping method, but.. it helped.
You may be asking yourself, “How does she know if Kim was really calling the police or not?”
I made the amazing discovery that the county where Kim lives’ sheriff puts all of their dispatch logs online.
I went through several of these files - each one is only a few days worth of calls - before I realized it would take me way, way too long to do this myself. So I gave her sheriff’s department a call to figure out if there was some way I could make a public record request or something and just order copies of the call logs with only her calls in them.
I had a rather interesting conversation with the woman in records. The call went something like this.
Me: “Hi there, I’m trying to figure out if I can order a record of all calls made to you guys by one person - named Kimberleigh Keister.” Cop: "Oh… Wait… Does she spell her name kind of differently? Like… (spells out name)? Me: "Yeah. She does.” Cop: “Oh, her.” Me: “…Ma'am, you speak as if you’re familiar with Mrs. Keister.” Cop: “I used to work dispatch, she called all the time.
The officer further went on to explain that only did she know Kim… She KNEW WHO I WAS. When I explained the situation to her, she understood what was going on and told me she would call me back in a day or two once she had gotten all the records together. Four days went by and I hadn’t heard from her, so I gave her a ring back. She apologized for not getting back to me sooner and said she had actually worked THE ENTIRE DAY previously on getting the records together for me.
There were 54 PAGES of 911 calls from Kim, dating back to April 2015.
Not one call per page. Multiple - like 5-6 calls per page. Almost all of them in some way about someone stalking her, harassing her, driving by her house slowly, calling her, emailing her, texting her, anything you can think of. I had to cut a check for the copies, and when they came it was a HUGE packet.
At this point, all of my own evidence + the evidence of all the other victims that came to court with me + the call logs, we’re at over 500 printed pages of evidence. I have it in several HUGE binders, and it’s so heavy I can barely carry it. It needs it’s own drawer in a filing cabinent or something. I don’t know where I’m going to store all this crap.
The time leading up to the hearing for Kim’s restraining order hearing was really much the same, with Kim doing her posting-multiple-things-a-day about me, and me just sitting over here quietly documenting it.
I received notice on September 27th that all three restraining orders had been served on the Keister family. Not even an hour later, all trace of Kim was deleted off of social media…. OR SO I THOUGHT. The page where she had been spewing all this bullshit for several years… it was gone in a flash. Good thing I made ample documentation of every. single. entry.
Anyway, so a little more time goes by and finally, for once, things are reasonably sane in my life. The time comes and my husband and I fly out to California to deal with this silly order that Kim has put on me.
*Part 7: My Day In Court * We were welcomed to California by Carol - one of the victims I previously mentioned. We had a wonderful plan set up, something that Kim had no clue about. You see - Kim did not know that we had all found one another, and she certainly didn’t expect that more people than just me were going to show up for the court hearing.
All together, there were 10 people present in support of me. All but two of them were, in one way or another, victims of Kim.
We arrived at court a little before 8 am and found that the courtroom was teeny tiny - it could have held perhaps 30 people at maximum. As I said, there were 10 of us there, we took up almost the entire right side of the room. It became obvious fairly quickly that Kim wasn’t showing up in person, as there was only a few other person in the courtroom, and they were all stogidy lawyer-type men for a different hearing.
Finally the judge calls my case, I stand and am recognized. Kim speaks up… over the courtroom speaker.
They allowed her to telephonically appear.
I’m sure she thought she was being sly by trying to make it look like she was so afraid of me that she couldn’t be in the same room with me… But in the end, it was one more shovel of dirt from the hole that she was digging for herself.
The judge restated/reaffirmed the reason we were there today - that Kim wanted the order extended for 3 more years and I had come to challenge it. Then he asks Kim, "So Mrs. Keister, how do you want to proceed?”
At the question, Kim launches into a tirade about how I’m sending her anonymous emails and calling her from blocked numbers, and even said that all the restraining orders I filed were 'falsified’ and that I had moved on to stalking her parents and that I was calling / emailing them, and that because of my ongoing harassment of them they’re now getting a divorce. (lol wtf?)
The judge, clearly somewhat exasperated, informed her that since she had chosen to appear via telephone that she could not be sworn under oath and therefore anything she stated could not be considered evidence or admissible testimony in court. Furthermore, he said, her failure to physically show up made being able to cross-examine her impossible, therefore there was simply no way for her to proceed with jer case against me in any manner.
She spluttered a little bit at him, claiming that her local county Sheriff advised her to phone in instead of going in person, to which the judge made the exasperated face once again. Finally he cut her off and asked me if I would explain the unusually large amount of paperwork that was filed into the court record.
At that point I read my declaration, which is below:
My name is Andrea Brooks and I am a disabled artist from North Carolina.
I do not know Mrs Keister. I have never stalked or harassed Mrs. Keister. The things Mrs. Keister claims I have done to her are completely fabricated due to what I can only surmise is jealousy and hatred.
At my hearing today I come prepared to prove to you that Kim Keister is now, and has in the past used the courts to further harass myself and her former victims by claiming that there is a “conspiracy” against her, and that she has been creating multiple false 911 reports and civil filings in regards to this “conspiracy”. All of Mrs. Keister’s claims are supported by no evidence whatsoever of the allegations that she is making because there is no “conspiracy” and many of the people she names as “my associates” had no prior contact with me prior to Mrs. Keister’s victimization of them, and this court action.
I first came to know of Mrs. Keister’s allegations of this “conspiracy” when I was notified by several people on Facebook that she had posted details of several supposed police reports she had made on social media. I called the Butte County Sheriff’s Department, the county where Mrs. Keister resides, and they have no record of her filing police reports. They do, however, have a long record of her making an excessive amount of calls to report incidents involving paranoia, delusions of being stalked, and many other things.
As I believe Mrs. Keister has fabricated evidence to ask for this order, I have decided to bring my evidence and defend myself against her.
I ask that you deny the renewal of this order. I further ask that you find Mrs. Kim Keister responsible for the court costs of this case as well as for the fees that have been required to come here and defend myself. This includes witness fees, Subpoena service fees, etc.
After I finished reading that I turned back and motioned to the full benches behind me - nearly the entire side full with just us 10, and said “Your Honor, all of these individuals are also victims of Mrs. Keister.”
He just sat there for a second, a little dumbfounded. He didn’t even give her a chance to respond to my declaration, he just said, “If you’ve been a victim of Mrs. Keister and would like to give a statement, come forward.”
Of course, all of the victims did.
First Jake spoke. Kim sent him nudes and went around town implying to people that they were a couple. She sent him all kinds of filthy emails and texts, all of which we filed into the court record (of course). In one of these emails she asks him about me. Because I guess clearly we all know each other.
When Kim had her turn to refute him, she claimed she had no clue who he is and that she had never heard his name before. Amusing, considering the giant STACK of emails he had sitting in front of him.
My husband spoke about the levels of stress all of this has put me through, as well as about how her IP address is tied to literally everything, especially the accounts trying to look like they’re there to harass her. Everything traces back to her county and relative location therein.
Next up was Matt who is a higher-up at the animal control association (which Kim is/was a member of). He spoke of the number of complaints they have had throughout their organization and how they had to change the bylaws to get rid of her, as well as some personal Kim horror tales including how she had been rampant on an animal control forum that he ran for several years. All IP addresses that we had corresponded to IP addresses that traced to accounts known to be Kim when she used this forum.
Lastly, Carol spoke and showed her screenshots from when Kim stole her identity, photos from Facebook, and more.
The other witnesses that were there had both filed their statements and records into court record and chose not to speak out since the judge had indicated he had already read through their statements.
During all of this Kim adamantly swore that she had never heard of these people before and that she knew Carol was causing trouble with me, she was my accomplice, etc, etc.
After all the testimony from all of us was heard, the judge had some pretty words for Merced’s little darling.
The judge ruled against Kim, denying her request for the extension / renewal, then went a step further and said that since I and so many other witnesses had traveled so far to see justice done here that he would take that as motion to vacate the original restraining order that was issued two years ago with falsified evidence from Kim.
He then ruled that due to a TOTAL LACK Of CREDIBLE EVIDENCE OR TESTIMONY from Kim that the order was vacated. The judge also ordered Kim to pay the cost of court + expenses, and recommended that I should proceed with a civil case to collect damages as well.
There has been a few small developments after this epic smackdown happened - the most notable that the newest log came out from her local sheriff’s department. It would seem that Kim called 911 AS SOON AS THIS CASE WAS OVER. The log for the call is below:
So… thanks, Kim, for letting them know you’re full of shit. Not that I think they needed that alert. Keep digging that hole deeper, girl.
There were three other calls placed AFTER the end of our hearing, some placed days after. The most recent log hasn’t yet come out, but I expect there will be more of the same. The sad and unfortunate reality here is that despite what I have done so far, Kim is not going to leave me alone until she is forced by the law to do so.
That is why I have chosen to share my story. To hire a lawyer it will cost me roughly $2500. I understand that money is tight with many right now - I ask that if you can not donate, please share this - get the word out there. Shed light on this situation so that this can not happen to more people in the future.
If you can, please donate to help me reach my goal. Thank you.
http://www.gofundme.com/helpmesuekak
