Stalking Mary

by Eileen Bridgeman Biernat, Don Shelby (Foreword)

A disturbed adolescent boy, a young female teacher, and a fifteen-year fixation that ultimately led to a horrific and deadly abduction. In May of 1980, Mary Stauffer and her eight-year-old daughter Beth thought they were preparing for an international mission trip. Ming Sen Shiue, Mary's high-school algebra student from 1965, had other plans. Stalking Mary is the true account of the kidnapping of Mary and Beth Stauffer, the thoughtless murder of a young boy named Jason Wilkman, and the psychosexual ploys of a dangerously deranged Shiue. Using court documents, video and audio transcriptions, personal interviews, and thousands of pages from Shiue’s own sexual fantasy scripts, Eileen Biernat paints a harrowing picture of two families caught in the grip of a nightmare. After three decades in prison, Shiue is scheduled for release on July 7, 2010--thirty years to the day that Mary and Beth, still chained together, escaped from Shiue’s home where they’d been held captive for seven weeks. Eileen Bridgeman Biernat is a psychologist. This is her first published book.

Genres: True Crime

319 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 5, 2019

About the author

Eileen Bridgeman Biernat is a graduate of St. Mary’s University, Minneapolis, Minnesota with a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology. She holds an undergraduate BA in Psychology and Written Communications from Augsburg College.

In 2010 Eileen published her first book, “Stalking Mary” a true crime story of one man’s fifteen-year obsession with his High School Algebra teacher – her kidnapping and the murder of a young child who witnessed the kidnapping. Published by Beaver’s Pond Press February 1, 2010. www.stalkingmary.com

Stalking Mary was chosen by ABC Primetime Television and made into an hour-long feature entitled “Mind Games” televised in June, 2010.

2014 - Published Echoes of Evil - a psychological thriller loosely based on the bizarre real life murder of Laci Peterson and her unborn baby by her husband Scott Peterson who is on death row in California.

Reviews

[Autumn Stars · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thank goodness Mary and her daughter were able to escape however this was a terrible thing to have happen in their lives.