Serial Stalker To Spend 10 Years In Prison

MARIETTA, GA -- A Louisiana man will serve a decade in prison after admitting he stalked a woman who had a restraining order against him. In October 2017, Charles Ray Alexander III, 33, repeatedly contacted his former girlfriend in Marietta by telephone, in violation of a protective order issued in Cobb County in July 2017.

The two began dating in April 2017, and Alexander traveled to Marietta from Louisiana to visit the woman. However, she soon began seeing signs of aggressive and controlling behavior and tried to end the relationship. Alexander showed up at her house uninvited on May 31, 2017 and physically attacked her for hours. Throughout the next month, the victim received hundreds of phone calls from him, and on June 27, 2017, Alexander again traveled from Louisiana to Marietta and made numerous threats to the victim’s life.

After being arrested that day on charges of harassing phone communications, Alexander was extradited to Louisiana on an outstanding parole violation. In October 2017, while incarcerated in St. Gabriel, Louisiana, Alexander placed 11 calls to the Marietta woman, three of which she accepted and confirmed that he was placing the calls. Even after she told him that the calls were in violation of the order, Alexander continued to call until the woman asked the prison facility to block calls to her number. She also changed her phone number.

Alexander has a history of domestic violence and violations of protective orders in Louisiana dating to 2006, including at least four convictions for stalking and violations of protective orders. One of his past victims came from Texas to testify at trial this week, believing that Alexander will continue abusing women if given the opportunity.

On Wednesday, midway through trial, Alexander pleaded guilty to aggravated stalking. Cobb Superior Court Senior Judge G. Grant Brantley sentenced him to serve 10 years in prison without parole and issued a permanent order prohibiting Alexander from contacting the victim.

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