If you caught Dateline NBC last weekend and watched the featured story, your jaw likely dropped and hit the floor.  The story was a mind-blowing.

A woman, Lottie Spencer Blatz, claimed she had been relentlessly stalked by a younger man, Waseem Daker.  She said they met playing paintball and became friends, but she said they never had a romantic relationship.  Then Daker, according to Blatz, started stalking her and became obsessed with her.

Blatz filed charges against Daker multiple times for stalking and Daker ended up getting locked up for 10 years.

In the middle of all of this, Blatz ‘s attractive neighbor, Karmen Smith, who lived in the same house that Blatz did (on a different floor) was murdered.  When it happened, Blatz told police she knew who it was.  It was Daker, the man who stalked her.

That hit me as very unusual and strange. Stalkers may kill the person they are obsessed with, but not typically their neighbors.

Blatz talks about when she was being harassed by Daker, she took her phone off the hook and as soon as she did, she heard Daker start calling Karmen Smith and shortly after Smith was murdered.  What are the odds?

Over the Dateline broadcast, Blatz does an about face now that Daker is convicted of murder, and she tells us and the courts that she lied.  She says that Daker never stalked her, and that she had a consensual relationship with him after all.  She is now calling Daker the victim here.

When you are watching the show, you are left confused and unsure what to believe.

When I watched Blatz tell her original story, I saw a lot of red flags and I didn’t believe her.  Yet when she did an about face, her clues dramatically subsided.

I think Blatz has some serious mental health issues, but I also believe she is a pathological liar and even worse, she may be a master manipulator.

At the end of the show, from what I saw, I couldn’t help but wonder if Blatz manipulated and toyed with Daker’s emotions, and pulled his strings like a puppet and got great joy out of it.  By pushing his buttons, she may have pushed him to the brink–causing him to do stupid things.

And when I think that Blatz was so sure of who killed her neighbor, I immediately wonder what evidence there was to convict Daker.  Blatz claims she gave a blanket to Smith before she was killed, but only Daker’s hairs were on the blanket — not Blatz’s.  How does that happen?

I can’t help but question if Blatz set up Daker.  I would put Blatz in the target of my investigation.  She would have had the motive to kill Karmen Smith out of pure jealousy if Daker gave her any attention.  Or she could have manipulated Daker to kill Smith and refused all contact with Daker until he did.  Both are plausible.

I fear this story is way more twisted than anyone knows and the dark one behind all of this may very well be Blatz and not Daker.  I can say I do believe Blatz this time around on some elements–enough that the whole case needs to be reassessed, hands down.