CHICAGO (CBS)–these were in search of love, but alternatively they discovered risk lurking on the net.

Two ladies state these were harassed by the same man on line, and DeKalb police are calling him a stalker that is serial.

CBS 2’s Dorothy Tucker decided to go to the so-called home that is stalker’s discovered their daddy, whom identified the person in an image he had been shown as their son.

“That’s my oldest son, is he desired in five states or what’s going on?” the daddy joked.

“He is wanted,” Tucker said.

DeKalb police said they wish to keep in touch with him for presumably stalking ladies on dating apps.

A study defines exactly exactly exactly how attempts that are several contact him have now been unsuccessful.

He called himself “Jay” on an app that is dating.

Marybeth Kurnat liked their message.

“He sent me personally an email first,” Kurnat stated. “It ended up being writing that is chivalrous like really polite, well built, inquisitive.”

They communicated don and doff for 2 hours after which “Jay” asked for Kurnat’s telephone number.

“I happened to be like, ‘you understand my rule is you gotta survive to date number 2 to obtain the digits,’” she said.

But five full minutes later, a text message came in from an unknown quantity.

He had somehow found her number and texted her.

“So he had discovered my information, after which he stated like, ‘you reside near to my friend,’” Kurnat said. “‘You’re my friend’s neighbor.’”

Concerned on her security, Kurnat blocked “Jay” regarding the software, but that didn’t stop him.

On the next 48 hours, Kurnat claims the person reached out three more times.

“He just hit me up again having an account that is different” she stated.

He began calling her under new reports, but them all had the exact same picture.

“I became shaking within my boots,” she said. “My heart had been beating away from my upper body.”

Kurnat filed an authorities report concerning the harassment after which posted about her encounter that is frightening on.

That’s when she discovered she wasn’t the victim that is only.

Between five and eight women reached out to her to big beautiful people state the same task had occurred in their mind.

Ashley Davis saw Kurnat’s post.

“Right on my cell phone,” Davis said before I went to Dublin, that’s when he messaged me.

She stated she did know that is n’t quantity it absolutely was, therefore she started joking around, typing straight back, “New phone, who dis’?”

The one who texted her identified himself as “John.”

He delivered Davis the picture that is same had published on Facebook.

“I delivered her the screenshots of my discussion with him like, here is the exact same man,” Davis stated.

“He each of a rapid began threatening me,” she said. “The texts had been saying, I’m sure exactly exactly just what apartment you’re in, you should be careful that which you do.”

Neither Davis or Kurnat ever came across him in individual, but an other woman we spoke to by phone understands the person within the picture well and states he utilized to focus on it at Northern Illinois University, where Kurnat graduated from and Davis once lived nearby.

He is able to utilze the internet as an instrument and a resource, the girl stated.

Their dad states his son isn’t any stalker.

“He’s a boy that is good” their daddy stated.

DeKalb police are still in search of the person on the application.

The ladies came across the person on a few apps that are different and every has various policies in position to report stalking.