In 2017, a relentless cyberstalker’s distressing actions came to a stop when he was detained for a number of offences. However, at that point, he had harassed other people online and even compelled a survivor to relocate abroad. The podcast and documentary series “Unraveled: The Stalker’s Web” on Investigation Discovery focus on the atrocities committed by Jason Christopher Hughes and the experiences of the survivors. Let’s therefore learn more about what transpired at that time.
Who is Jason Hughes?
Jason Hughes, who used numerous names online, was finally detained and charged after a protracted investigation. But by that time, he had stalked people online, fundamentally changing their lives, doing great harm. One of them was a pen friend from fourth grade, someone he had known since the 1970s. Initially, she tried to be encouraging as Jason wrote her numerous letters outlining his challenging background.
But after Jason’s messages “grew increasingly dark and threatening over a period of years,” the pen buddy decided to cut off contact. He made alarming references to the occult and cannibalism in them, among other things. Jason persisted in stalking her despite her reluctance to talk to him; once, he even unexpectedly showed up at her college room. He also threatened to harm her and her family. Later, after getting married, the woman went to another nation with her spouse in order to avoid Jason.
About 20 years of stillness were shattered in March 2015 when Jason sent her over 20 unsettling emails after finding her email online. “See, I don’t like kids,” one of them declared. Actually, I detest them. When one of them gets kidnapped, trampled beneath a train, or devoured by wild dogs, I chuckle. This is who I am, and you were a part of making me. Jason also included details about her own children in an article about the deaths of five children that he gave her via email.
Another survivor claimed that she had met Jason online sometime in 2003 and that he had stalked her after she had rejected his love approaches. She lost her job as a result of Jason informing her employer that she was stalking him. She claimed, “I never actually met him; it was just psycho. He revealed to me that he was a werewolf and a dual Scorpio. Jason wrote a second woman an email in September 2015 that described how to mutilate a person in yet another disturbing act.
Prior to their meeting and engaging in sex, Rachel and Jason, who met online sometime in 2001, flirted. She eventually left in the middle of the night, nevertheless, due to his dubious behaviour. Additionally, Rachel had requested that Jason stop contacting her. He didn’t take the rejection well, though, and sent her family and employer images of her while she was still undressed. It was humiliating and upsetting, said Rachel. Jason wants to ruin my reputation and cause me to lose my work because of one bad romantic decision I made.
For more than ten years, Jason tortured Rachel online, including appearing in a forum for new mothers. Another lady named Vanessa who met Jason online claimed that he sent her porn and threatened to kill her family. It was like dealing with a creature that lived in the woods, she said. You never knew when he might suddenly appear and attack you. He allegedly targeted fifty other people, according to other reports.
Where is Jason Hughes Now?
In the end, the federal police were able to link Jason to a number of aliases, including Michael Rudra Nath and Luis Manuel Arsupial. His websites and emails were then linked to a Staten Island, New York, address. Jason resided there with his wife and in-laws. He admitted to cyber harassment in 2020 after a protracted legal process, claiming that he was dealing from PTSD at the time he wrote those emails. Jason received a 366-day prison term in December 2021 along with three years of post-release supervision. We were unable to confirm his incarceration status, though.
