Off Record: Stalked Twice

Summary

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The Knife: A True Crime Podcast

Off Record: Stalked Twice (May 7, 2026)

Hosts: Hannah Smith & Pasha Eaton

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Episode Overview

In this gripping episode, hosts Pasha Eaton and Hannah Smith explore two generations of stalking and violence perpetrated by a father and son in Texas, centering first on the harrowing true story of survivor Lavon Scalias, who was stalked and assaulted twice across a decade by her attacker, Lonnie Jean Bevers Jr. The episode then shifts to the modern-day stalking case involving Lonnie’s son, Robert Bevers, culminating in a landmark conviction. Throughout, the hosts interrogate the failures of the criminal justice system, the trauma of being a target of obsession, and the civil rights strides made possible through Lavon’s advocacy.
(Content warning: adult themes, violence, sexual assault)

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Key Discussion Points and Story Breakdown

1. The Assaults on Lavon Scalias — Survival Against All Odds

[03:11]

• September 8, 1984: Lavon, a single mother in Tarrant County, TX, is violently attacked in her home by a masked intruder who cuts off her thumb, breaks her leg, and sexually assaults her.
• “She’s bleeding from her head where he hit her with the gun, and he cut off her finger. And she's still trying to get to safety.” — Pasha Eaton [04:44]
• Lavon recognizes the assailant and immediately informs authorities after escaping to a neighbor’s house.
• Throughout the assault, Lavon’s primary concern was for her daughter, asleep down the hall.

2. A Chilling History: The First Attack

[09:19]

• Lavon identifies her attacker as Lonnie Jean Bevers Jr., who raped her previously in 1977 after years of threatening phone calls beginning in 1974.
• 1977 Assault: Similar break-in, violence, and terror. Fingerprints and lineups confirm Bevers’s identity, despite being a relative stranger (his only connection was through his brother, who did lawn work for Lavon's ex-husband).
• “She was able to put it together once she realized the pictures that they were showing her.” — Pasha Eaton [12:58]

3. Criminal Justice Failures and Revictimization

[13:48]

• 1978: Bevers is convicted and sentenced to 20 years for aggravated sexual assault with a deadly weapon.
• 1984: Bevers is released on parole after just 6 years; no one informs Lavon. He attacks her again almost immediately.
• “That is horrible. You can’t just like, make a phone call and let her know? That’s a failure in the system right there.” — Hannah Smith [19:47]
• Bevers had explicitly threatened to kill Lavon if he was ever released.

4. The Investigation—Or Lack Thereof

[21:21]

• After the second attack, authorities fail to promptly arrest Bevers despite Lavon’s clear identification.
• It takes four months, and the mishandling of physical evidence leads to only a retaliation charge at first.
• Lavon bravely records threatening phone calls to gather evidence, despite severe psychological distress.
• “Everyone knows Bevers raped me. But the tainted identification and the mishandling of physical evidence has doomed a rape trial for now.” — Lavon Scalias (quoted by Pasha) [22:19]

5. Final Conviction and Life Sentence

[25:33]

• Eventually, forensic evidence (fingerprints on a lighter and kitchen window) and persistent advocacy lead to Bevers’s 1989 rape conviction and life sentence.
• Lavon lives in terror of release dates, contemplating going underground.
• “She talked about … preparing to live under an alias, saving money for plastic surgery, thinking that she would have to leave town if he was ever released.” — Pasha Eaton [26:08]
• Lavon collaborates to reform stalking laws in Texas, instrumental in helping the legislature formally criminalize stalking in the early 1990s.

6. Intergenerational Violence: The Son, Robert Bevers

[35:36]

• Pasha investigates a recent Texas case where a man named Robert Bevers stalked social media influencer Peyton Mabry (2022–2024), hand-delivering gifts, sending harassing emails, and violating protection orders.
• Robert is the son of Lonnie Jean Bevers Jr.: “His son? No, his son.” — Hannah and Pasha Eaton react in shock [36:32]
• Victims report similarly threatening, racist, and dominating messages.
• Robert’s pattern includes multiple other women—all strangers—and serial misdemeanor offenses going insufficiently punished until his 2025 conviction for felony stalking, resulting in a 20-year sentence (a record for Texas). Prior victims testify at trial.

7. Systemic Issues and Psychological Toll

[43:47]

• Discussion of parole, repeated system failings, and how stalking “shrinks the world that you live in” — Pasha Eaton [43:51]
• Exploration of the lack of research into familial patterns in stalking behavior; hosts note the reporting and social context around stalking has changed across generations.
• “How many people in the generation before us reported it the way our generation hopefully feels empowered to do so?” — Pasha Eaton [44:45]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• [08:51] Hannah Smith: “Her leg is broken and her thumb has been cut off. It's that survival instinct and instinct to protect your child. I mean, it's incredible.”
• [20:36] Pasha Eaton: “They let him out six years into a 20 year sentence and they didn't tell her. I mean, I can't imagine the justification for letting him out, but to not tell her that is like, I just. Wow.”
• [26:43] Hannah Smith: “Her testimony helped pass a law that actually made stalking a crime. … Incredible.”
• [39:52] Pasha Eaton: “He was just writing vile, racist messages to her, but she had nothing to do about it. She was, you know, revolted by them.”
• [43:51] Pasha Eaton: “The unseen harm of stalking is that even in a case where someone isn’t physically injured by their stalker, it can make everyday life very scary, and it can really shrink the world that you live in in order to keep yourself safe.”
• [47:46] Pasha Eaton (about wrongful convictions): “You could look it right in the face and be like, oh, wow, there’s this blaring reason this should have never happened. And still it’s like, well, they're already in there and that prosecutor still believes or whatever.”

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Important Timestamps

• [03:11 – 04:44]: Graphic recounting of the 1984 assault on Lavon.
• [09:19 – 12:14]: Revelation of Lavon’s prior victimization and identification of the stalker.
• [19:34 – 20:36]: Failure of the parole system; Bevers’s release and immediate reoffending.
• [21:21 – 25:33]: Investigative failures, Lavon’s role in evidence gathering, and the path to final conviction.
• [26:43 – 27:17]: Lavon's legislative advocacy and book.
• [35:36 – 43:56]: The case of Robert Bevers (son), landmark stalking conviction, similarities to his father.
• [44:45 – 45:11]: Discussion on generational reporting and attitudes toward stalking.

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Additional Resources and Recommendations

• Lavon Scalias’s book: Stalked (co-written with a courthouse advocate).
• [46:11] Recommendation: Girl on the Run: The Hunt for America's Most Wanted Woman (docuseries about Sarah Jo Pender, Hulu) exploring wrongful convictions and the justice system’s resistance to reversal.

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Thematic Takeaways

• Ripple effect of stalking: Both episodes demonstrate the enduring trauma inflicted on survivors, the complicity of a flawed legal system, and the challenges in achieving justice and safety.
• Legacy and Law Reform: Lavon’s activism directly leads to Texas’s anti-stalking laws; the hosts highlight her courage and generational impact.
• Generational Violence: The shocking parallel between father and son reveals the dangers of unaddressed predatory behavior and gaps in intervention.
• Systemic Barriers: Failures in parole supervision, notification, and repeated leniency underline the need for persistent survivor advocacy and public education.

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This episode exemplifies empathetic, solutions-oriented journalism—emphasizing survivors’ voices, systemic critique, and encouragement for ongoing vigilance and reform in addressing stalking and gendered violence.

Transcript

[Pasha Eaton]

This is exactly right.

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[Hannah Smith]

This story contains adult content and language. Listener discretion is advised. Welcome to the Knife Off Record. I'm Hannah Smith.

[Pasha Eaton]

I'm Pasha Eaton. I have a story for you today, Hannah, that is one part something that happened many years ago, but there was a more recent case that led me to this one and they are strangely connected. And so I thought, oh, I would like to look into this and see what I can find out.

[Hannah Smith]

Great. I am excited to hear about it. I love a case that leads to another case.

[Pasha Eaton]

Yeah, it's one of those little headlines. I reached out to someone, didn't hear back, and. And just kept looking into it and saw there was a tie to a previous story. So.

[Hannah Smith]

Cool. Shall we get into it?

[Pasha Eaton]

Yes. All right. So it's September 8, 1984, and in her home in Tarrant County, Texas, single mother Lavon Scalias is asleep in her bed. She's abruptly woken up by a loud noise, and then the terrifying sight of a masked intruder. She tries to get away, but he jumps on her. He has a gun. He has a knife. And a voice that she describes as gruff. And because this is in 1984, I got a lot of these stories from either court documents or a lot of the details, I should say, in court documents and newspaper articles from the Fort Worth Star Telegram and the Houston Chronicle, because.

[Hannah Smith]

So this was 1984. How old was she at the time?

[Pasha Eaton]

At the time, she was, I believe, in her early 30s.

[Hannah Smith]

Okay.

[Pasha Eaton]

Yeah.

[Hannah Smith]

Yeah.

[Pasha Eaton]

So she's woken up by this masked intruder. He holds her down. He pushes her onto her stomach, and he pulls her hands behind her and tells her not to scream. And then he hits her twice in the head with his gun. And she's, you know, bleeding profusely. Her daughter is asleep down the hall. So Lavon can feel a searing pain in her right hand for a moment, and she breaks free. She's able to, like, wriggle herself away, and she runs toward the kitchen and tries to open the door to get out of her house, and she realizes she can't grasp the doorknob. And then she sees that he's cut off her thumb.

[Hannah Smith]

Oh, my God.

[Pasha Eaton]

So she's. Yeah, like, that's adrenaline for you. She's bleeding from her head where he hit her with the gun, and he cut off her finger. And she's still trying to get to safety.

[Hannah Smith]

Like, intentionally cut her finger off.

[Pasha Eaton]

Oh, yeah. It was intentional. It took him a little bit of

[Hannah Smith]

time at the moment, because the adrenaline or something.

[Pasha Eaton]

Yeah. And so he grabs her, pulls her back into the home, and she knows who this is.

[Hannah Smith]

Oh, she recognizes him.

[Pasha Eaton]

Yeah. But he asks her for her name, and she says her name is Sally, but he knows it's not true. And then he asks where her daughter is, because she knows who this is, and he knows who this is.

[Hannah Smith]

And in the house before he came in. It's just her and her daughter.

[Pasha Eaton]

Right. She's a single mother.

[Hannah Smith]

Okay?

[Pasha Eaton]

So Lavon tells the man her daughter is at a friend's house. But, you know, that's not true. Her daughter's asleep down the hall, and Lavon's trying to, you know, shield her from this person. So the man pushes Lavon into a bathroom. He holds her at gunpoint and demands that she clean the blood off herself. And, you know, she has no choice but to try to do that. He's holding a gun to her head. And so I think she steps into the bathtub and tries to start cleaning herself off. And then he goes looking for her daughter. So scary. And, I mean, I just can't imagine a worse thing to be feeling in that moment for a mom. And, you know, she's limited as to what she could do at that point. And so she sees him open her daughter's bedroom door and look in, and she pretends to faint to get his attention, which, I mean, wow. And so she distracts him long enough to redirect his attention, and then once again, is able to wiggle her way free and try to call for help. He once again pulls her back in. She reaches for a phone and realizes he's cut the phone line. It's completely dead. I mean, a complete nightmare. And he slams the door on her leg so hard that it breaks in two places.

[Hannah Smith]

Oh, my God.

[Pasha Eaton]

This woman has been hit in the head with a gun. Her thumb has been cut off. He's broken her leg, and then he sexually assaults her.

[Hannah Smith]

This is reminding me, obviously, it's really different, but it's reminding me of the Jennifer Thompson story where an intruder came into her house. Just because it was also pre cell phones and also the perpetrator had cut the phone lines. I'm just like, yeah, how often was that happening pre cell phone? Because you then you have no way to call someone.

[Pasha Eaton]

Right. Her only hope is to physically escape this person. And she's incredibly badly injured.

[Hannah Smith]

Yeah, yeah.

[Pasha Eaton]

And so he sexually assaults her. He forces her then back into the bathtub and again tells her to clean herself up. And then he returns again to her daughter's room and looks in, but he doesn't go in, I don't think. And while he's walking away toward the daughter's room, Lavon manages to pull her body outside, and he finds her again, pulls her back in, but this time they're in the garage. And so she's in the garage long enough to make her way back out when he Goes back inside, and she gets herself to a neighbor's house. It's a little after 5am by this point, and they call 91 1.

[Hannah Smith]

Does she tell the neighbor who this person is? Maybe I'm getting ahead of it.

[Pasha Eaton]

Yeah. So great question. She knows who it is, and she immediately tells her neighbor and authorities who it is. So Lamont has now survived the unthinkable and managed to do that while simultaneously distracting her attacker long enough that her daughter, who we later learned had in fact woken up and was just shielding her ears, like, cupping her ears, you know, because she heard all of the violence and terror happening outside her room. But she was physically unharmed.

[Hannah Smith]

I also just want to remind myself and listeners as you're telling me this, that her leg is broken and her thumb has been cut off. It's that survival instinct and instinct to protect your child. I mean, it's incredible.

[Pasha Eaton]

Yeah. I mean, just what she went through to save her life and her daughters that night is. I mean, it's mind blowing. But so she knows who it is. And she knows who it is because he has done this to her before.

[Hannah Smith]

He's done this to her before.

[Pasha Eaton]

Yep. He has done this to her before. And, like.

[Hannah Smith]

Meaning he's broken into her home before.

[Pasha Eaton]

Yes. And assaulted her. This is the second time this man has broken into her home and sexually assaulted her. Raped her. Now we're backing up to 1974. Lavon is still married. She's living in Fort Worth with her husband, and her daughter is about a toddler age at the time. So Lavon begins receiving anonymous phone calls. This is in 1974. They're threatening. They're strange, they're anonymous. She doesn't know who's making. And they continue for years. But a short time later, I think unrelated to the calls, Lavon and her husband separate.

[Hannah Smith]

Okay.

[Pasha Eaton]

And they eventually divorce. So now she's a single mother. They move just north of Fort Worth. And being a single mother in Texas in the 1970s, I can't imagine it was easy or that she knew a lot of people in her similar situation, but she was managing, and she was also working as a secretary. But in 1977, Lavon's entire life changed. And late at night, while she and her daughter were asleep, her daughter was about five years old at this time, a man breaks into their house. And it's this same man that we learned about raping her again in 1984.

[Hannah Smith]

Did she know this man? Or this was a total stranger.

[Pasha Eaton]

Stranger.

[Hannah Smith]

Okay. Scary. I mean, all of it is scary. But yeah.

[Pasha Eaton]

Yeah. And so this time, she's awoken to the sound of glass breaking. He'd broken in through her bedroom. But back in 1977, it looked very similar to what he did in 1984. He had a knife. He was incredibly violent. He said awful things to her, really threatening and trying to sort of dominate her. Like, if you don't do this, then you're gonna be. I'm gonna hurt you.

[Hannah Smith]

Mm. And did he cut the phone lines back then as well?

[Pasha Eaton]

I couldn't figure out if he cut the phone lines back then, but after the assault, he, you know, disappeared back into the night, and she went to the police.

[Hannah Smith]

So back in 1977, he's a stranger that broke into her house, assaulted her. Just her, not her daughter.

[Pasha Eaton]

Right.

[Hannah Smith]

And, you know, in this very similar, gross, violent, horrible way. And then he leaves.

[Pasha Eaton]

He leaves, and Lavon goes to the police, and she's like, this is what happened. They take her report, and they show her a photo lineup.

[Hannah Smith]

Okay.

[Pasha Eaton]

She immediately identifies him. And his name is lonnie Jean Bevers Jr.

[Hannah Smith]

Okay.

[Pasha Eaton]

And this identification matches up with fingerprints that they're able to find on the kitchen window of her home. So that's how she knows.

[Hannah Smith]

Okay.

[Pasha Eaton]

It is this person. Lanni Jean Bevers Jr. First name is L, a N, N, Y. Lani.

[Hannah Smith]

Okay.

[Pasha Eaton]

So how does she know this person? She barely knows him. Levon was barely acquainted with Lanny because his brother had done some yard work for her ex husband.

[Hannah Smith]

Hmm.

[Pasha Eaton]

They were not friends. They were never in a relationship. In fact, he was only. Reports said, between 18 and 21. Some said Lanny was. Yeah, he was very young, and she

[Hannah Smith]

would have been in her 20s at the time.

[Pasha Eaton]

Yeah.

[Hannah Smith]

So they live in the same area, the same community, and there's this, like, very brief point of contact. Not even direct contact.

[Pasha Eaton]

Yeah. She never thought of him until the photo lineup.

[Hannah Smith]

But did she recognize him? Like, do you know if she had known who he was or later put it together? This is the brother of the guy that did.

[Pasha Eaton]

She was able to put it together once she realized the pictures that they were showing her. And, you know, she had some idea that led them to him, but she wasn't because of the phone calls. But she had never said to them, I know who it is until the 1984 incident.

[Hannah Smith]

Right. Okay. And so in the 1977 incident, he wasn't wearing a mask or anything.

[Pasha Eaton]

I don't know if he was wearing

[Hannah Smith]

a mask, but she clearly was able to recognize him.

[Pasha Eaton]

Yeah. And she may have known his voice. I Mean, he had been calling her.

[Hannah Smith]

Yeah.

[Pasha Eaton]

And so at that point, she was like, this is the anonymous caller. Yes.

[Hannah Smith]

Okay, so he was the anonymous caller. And so. So he's been stalking her, we can assume, and then for years. And then he breaks into her house and assaults her violently. So she is able to identify him to the police, though?

[Pasha Eaton]

Yeah, she's able to identify him, and they're able to confirm that she has the right person with these fingerprints. And then, of course, she tells them about the phone calls and it all comes together. But he's a member of the military. And Bevers actually goes off to Germany within a day or two of that first attack in 1977. So they have to extradite him to the United States, but they do. And In March of 1978, a jury convicts him of aggravated sexual assault with a deadly weapon, and he is sentenced to 20 years.

[Hannah Smith]

Wow.

[Pasha Eaton]

Okay, so he's sentenced to 20 years. Why was he back at her house in 1984?

[Hannah Smith]

Yeah.

[Pasha Eaton]

So this conviction that happens in 1978, it doesn't undo the terror of what happened to her that night, but it meant something. It meant, okay, I have. I have time to be safe, to help my daughter feel safe again, to

[Hannah Smith]

clear her peace of mind that he's not out there wandering the streets, able to stalk her.

[Pasha Eaton]

Yeah. Or anyone else.

[Hannah Smith]

Or anyone else. Yeah. Sorry. Cause you said, like, for safety for her and her daughter. So did you know if her daughter woke up that first time?

[Pasha Eaton]

I don't know if her daughter woke up the first time, but I can imagine, like, the fear of being targeted by someone, especially someone so just gross and violent. But then to feel like, okay, does this target that they put on me endanger my daughter? Like, that would be. I mean, a horrific situation to have to live through is like, is she safe here? I mean, if I'm not safe here, is she safe here?

[Hannah Smith]

Totally.

[Pasha Eaton]

So this 20 year conviction, it felt like, okay, this is something. 20 years, you know, for what he did. Yes, 20 years.

[Hannah Smith]

Whenever you were reading court documents about this, was there any other information that. Not that there's any reason why someone would do this that would ever make it understandable, but, you know, did any other information come out about him and why he targeted her? Did she get any additional information about that at the time?

[Pasha Eaton]

So what I was able to look over was mostly details that were in his cases where he tried to appeal.

[Hannah Smith]

Okay.

[Pasha Eaton]

And I didn't see any specific reason, but, yeah, I mean, I did read in several places that they were barely acquainted, like, she did not. When he was making the phone calls, it wasn't like, oh, it's this person who did yard work for us when we were married and his brother. It was not like, okay. Blaringly obviously.

[Hannah Smith]

Mm, okay.

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[Pasha Eaton]

So he gets this 20 year sentence in March of 1978, and it's a little bit of relief. But six years later, he's released and no one tells Lavon.

[Hannah Smith]

That is horrible. You can't just like, make a phone call and let her know that's a failure in the system right there.

[Pasha Eaton]

Huge failure. And almost immediately he goes and commits that second attack. So he's in there for six years until 1984, and then he immediately goes and commits the second attack. And he had told her at some point, and I could not figure out where this comment took place, if it was a phone call or if it was during his initial trial in 1978. But he threatened Levon and said, if I get out, I'm going to kill you. Like, not verbatim, but that was essentially his threat, like, I'm going to come back for you if I get the chance. And so that's.

[Hannah Smith]

He's threatened her and they still let him out on parole.

[Pasha Eaton]

Yeah, they let him out six years into a 20 year sentence and they didn't tell her. I mean, I can't imagine the justification for letting him out, but to not tell her that is like, I just. Wow. And so that's how she immediately knew when this person showed up, she was like, okay, yeah, this is him.

[Hannah Smith]

Yeah.

[Pasha Eaton]

And, you know, memories can be strange when you're in the heat of the moment and fighting for your life. But it was that clear. So four months after the second attack, he still hasn't been arrested. So now we're in October of 1984. She knows who it is. She told the authorities right away. But they don't have enough. They said to get him.

[Hannah Smith]

They don't have enough.

[Pasha Eaton]

No, they didn't have anything. And the investigation, she. We'll talk about a little bit later, says was very badly done. That was Lavon's opinion on it. And that's what she told local news publications. So.

[Hannah Smith]

But. So they take a report, obviously, because there's a lot of physical evidence that she's been assaulted. Someone's broken into her home, but she's badly beaten. Badly beaten, yeah. But they can't find, like, fingerprints or something like that. Supposedly.

[Pasha Eaton]

Supposedly. So it takes four months, and she gets another anonymous phone call, and she's like, okay, this is him.

[Hannah Smith]

What a nightmare.

[Pasha Eaton]

Complete nightmare. But she tells detectives about the phone call, and she starts recording the phone calls. And this is like, okay, nightmare to even think of answering a phone when this person is calling you and they're out in the world. But she then also is in the position of having to keep him on the phone, to keep drawing out the conversation, because she needs to prove that it's him. And so her phone number also wasn't even listed at the time. But he knew it. You know, she'd had it unlisted after that first attack. The caller knew that her thumb had been cut. So, like, another thing pointing back to lonnie Jean Bevers Jr. And so finally, on January 29, 1985, he's arrested a second time, but because the investigators mishandled a lot of the investigation. This is according to what I read in local newspapers at the time from Lavon, but she's actually quoted as saying, everyone knows Bever's raped me. But the tainted identification and the mishandling of physical evidence has doomed a rape trial for now. So they've arrested him, but they can't go after him for rape yet they can go after him for retaliation. Okay, so that arrest happens in January of 1985.

[Hannah Smith]

I mean, you would imagine that in 1977, he was sentenced for sexually assaulting her. He was sentenced to 20 years. He gets out early, I assume on parole, but are there no terms of his parole that he can't contact her, call her, be in the same place as her? It shouldn't be that hard for him to be so clear that he's violated this and that he needs to be back in prison for the full 20 years. But, you know, obviously, it sounds like there was a lot that was not done correctly.

[Pasha Eaton]

Yeah, like, just to think of whoever is reviewing his parole and deciding to release him. It's like, how much thought are you putting into this? Yeah, because. Yeah, there should have been a lot of conditions being very closely followed because that was such a. I mean, it's such a brutal thing to do to someone. And so in 1987. So now we're two years after his second arrest. So in 1985, he's arrested for the 1984 rape.

[Hannah Smith]

Okay, but he's not being charged with.

[Pasha Eaton]

Right. He's being charged with retaliation, and he's in prison now.

[Hannah Smith]

He's not getting out.

[Pasha Eaton]

Right.

[Hannah Smith]

Okay.

[Pasha Eaton]

And in 1987, he is finally convicted of retaliation charge and sentenced to 15 years. But as you can imagine, this didn't bring much peace for Lavon, because the last time they let him out after six years. So she still wants a rape conviction for the 1984 attack. And finally, in 1989, they were able to do that because Bevers had left a cigarette butt or a cigarette lighter at her home. And there was a moment I read about in one of the articles where she said that during the attack in 1984, as they're wrestling on the ground and she's trying to get away, she sees a cigarette lighter on the ground, and she thinks, huh, we don't smoke. Like, what's that doing here? I don't smoke.

[Hannah Smith]

Right.

[Pasha Eaton]

You know, it seems like that's the way brains sort of function in these moments. When I think this is what people mean when we say time slows down, is you just started noticing things. And she immediately pinpointed that lighter. And so the lighter comes back into play and is part of what they're able to do with convicting him on this rape charge.

[Hannah Smith]

Did they get evidence from the lighter?

[Pasha Eaton]

Yeah, they were able to get fingerprints from the lighter and I think also from a kitchen window. And In November of 1989, he is convicted of rape and sentenced to life in prison.

[Hannah Smith]

I mean, good, good. But also, what are we talking about? You couldn't. Got fingerprints. Yeah. From the slider years before.

[Pasha Eaton]

That's why she was so upset. She felt like the investigation was just fumbled.

[Hannah Smith]

Yeah.

[Pasha Eaton]

And she never stopped being terrified that he would be released and come after her again or her daughter.

[Hannah Smith]

Yeah.

[Pasha Eaton]

And she talked about in news interviews preparing to live under an alias, saving money for plastic surgery, thinking that she would have to leave town if he was ever released. Which, by the way, at the time, a life sentence in prison in Texas would have meant he could be paroled in 2005. He wasn't. But Life isn't always, like, literally, to the end of your natural life.

[Hannah Smith]

Right.

[Pasha Eaton]

And in 1993, Lavon decided to work with the state legislature in Texas to reform stalking laws.

[Hannah Smith]

Wow.

[Pasha Eaton]

Yeah. Her testimony helped pass a law that actually made stalking a crime.

[Hannah Smith]

Incredible.

[Pasha Eaton]

Yeah. So, I mean, for her to have to relive this so publicly for the future safety of other women and.

[Hannah Smith]

Yeah.

[Pasha Eaton]

And so as of late last year, from what I could find, Bevers is still alive and still serving out his life sentence. I couldn't find very much on Lavon, which makes sense. She probably didn't want to be that traceable. But I did find an obituary, and I believe she passed away in July of 2023.

[Hannah Smith]

Okay.

[Pasha Eaton]

Last I read about her daughter. Her daughter is married and living in a different state now. And I want to mention Levon Scalias wrote a book called Stalked, which I wasn't able to obtain a copy of, but she wrote it with another woman who worked at the courthouse who wasn't, like, a professional author, but this woman started advocating for her and helping her through the process of her investigation and helping her record the phone calls. So they really bonded and wrote this book together.

[Hannah Smith]

Wow. We gotta get ahold of this book.

[Pasha Eaton]

I know.

[Hannah Smith]

I feel like she's so ahead of her time, which is obviously a compliment, but when you're living, it probably feels terrible. Because think about how hard it is Even today in 2026, to get people to understand how serious stalking is, to get law enforcement to do something about it. It's tricky. And I think a lot of it is just lack of education. And people don't realize that stalking can so easily become this very dangerous, very violent thing. Horrible. Even if it never escalates to that level. But back in the 80s, getting people to understand that, I can't even imagine. It must have been such a hurdle to do. And I'm so impressed with her, just pushing forward with that and then also writing a book. Yeah.

[Pasha Eaton]

And you can imagine, I don't know, that this happened. But if she was getting those anonymous phone calls back in 1974, and the first attack was in 1977, that means for three years that was happening. And maybe it was like, they didn't have ways to trace phone calls the way they do now. Maybe it was a lack of interest. But I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that in the 1970s in Texas, saying you got an anonymous phone call, it would be like, well, that's creepy. You know? Well, it's like, it's not Creepy. It's terrifying and it's threatening. So I don't know that they were dismissed, but that's just a long time for that to go on.

[Hannah Smith]

Yes, such a long time. And the psychological aspect to it is horrible, you know, because I imagine after that first conviction, she did feel somewhat better or safer knowing that he was not able to access her, although he had that threat, you know, that he wielded before he was sent to prison, that if he was ever let out, he would come after her. I feel like if it were me, it would be hard for me not to be thinking about that or worried about it. And then it's like the worst nightmare comes true because out of the blue, here he is again. He's like the monster that won't ever go away. The horrible aspect of stalking is like, making someone feel attacked and trapped in their own lives. Like they are never sure if they're really free. It's horrible.

[Pasha Eaton]

Totally. And a lot of these phone calls were, you know, sexually explicit. Just vile things that he's saying to her, but also a very apparent desire for, like, ownership over her. Sort of, you know, like, you will comply or this will happen. You will do what I say or I'll hurt your daughter. You know, lots of threats about her daughter's life too. I mean, so for her to then drag out those phone calls to help convict him, I mean, just must have taken everything to not just hang up.

[Hannah Smith]

I'm also like, how did she record these phone calls in the 80s?

[Pasha Eaton]

Like, well, I actually tried to. There's a. There's a archived news clip. The sound quality was so bad I couldn't play it. But yeah, they show someone literally in a van, like an old school detective looking van, with this little tape that goes around and around outside doing it.

[Hannah Smith]

Was that just B roll or was that.

[Pasha Eaton]

It was B roll from a different instance of this. But I think the point of it was, like, they're using the same technology in California.

[Hannah Smith]

Like, somehow she got someone to agree to record these phone calls or to tap her line.

[Pasha Eaton]

It was a member of the police department.

[Hannah Smith]

Oh, okay. See, I thought that she had, like a little device and was figuring out how to record, but I was imagining those old phones thinking, can you even put them on speakerphone? Like, how is she doing this?

[Pasha Eaton]

Yeah, she had the help of local law enforcement with the recordings.

[Hannah Smith]

Okay, okay.

[Pasha Eaton]

Because she knew they were happening and was able to tell them these are happening. And so they did take an interest in those because she said, I know who this is.

[Hannah Smith]

And so they're probably tapping her phone and then anytime he calls, then they're recording it. And then were they able to trace that phone call back to his phone?

[Pasha Eaton]

I don't know that they were. I think it was much more like, okay, this is exactly what he said back in 1974 and 1975. Like we know who this is.

[Hannah Smith]

Okay. So it's like context clues and that helps them build the case against him.

[Pasha Eaton]

Yeah. And so he, as recently as I could tell, is still serving a life sentence in Texas. And I found this story because I'd been looking into a story that's more recent and I had actually brought up this story to you before.

[Hannah Smith]

Oh, I thought this was both the cases. There's a whole other case.

[Pasha Eaton]

Yeah. Okay.

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[Pasha Eaton]

So I don't know if you recall this conversation of our many meetings. I was like, there's a stalking case in Texas where they just handed down a 20 year sentence for stalking, which is a landmark sentence for stalking in Texas. And it was within the last five years. And so I looked into it. I reached out to the detective who worked that case. Didn't hear back. Reached out to the victim, didn't hear back. And I was just looking at it again, which is how I came to this older case and let me tell you why. So first, this case that I had brought up to you, that's more recent. In 2022, 27 year old social media influencer Peyton Mabry began receiving hand delivered gifts to her doorstep. The gifts were unsolicited and delivered by a man named Robert Bevers.

[Hannah Smith]

Oh wow. So same last name as Lanny Bevers.

[Pasha Eaton]

His son? No, his son. What? And Peyton Mabry had never met Robert Bevers. Zero connection to him. No idea how he came across her. Maybe social media, maybe out in the world. Not sure. There's Security footage of him at her door several times late at night with gifts and flowers, driving past her house multiple times. He would sign handwritten cards to her as Romeo. And so this is, like, very recent. So there's home security cameras. There's a lot of ways to track people.

[Hannah Smith]

I'm guessing she doesn't know who this guy is. I think you said that. But she sees these gifts, she looks at her door cam and is like, okay, who's this guy?

[Pasha Eaton]

Right. And so she was able to. With that security footage and the messages that he had been sending her, she was able to obtain a civil protective order, a restraining order that puts no contact rules into place. And he appeals the protective order trying to say that he never threatened to harm or kill her. And I thought this was interesting because it's like, it is threatening by nature to receive unwanted attention from a man that you don't know who was showing up at your house.

[Hannah Smith]

And if you don't know her, why are you bothered by the fact that you can't go be in her vicinity? It shouldn't matter to you, Hannah.

[Pasha Eaton]

This is my next bullet point. Why would you care?

[Hannah Smith]

Right Mind, Mel?

[Pasha Eaton]

No, it's. Yeah, it's like, I'm, like, thinking if someone files a restraining order against me and I don't know them, I probably don't want a restraining order on my record. But I'm probably just gonna take a step back and be like, wait, did I reach out to someone that I didn't mean to reach out to? It's like, I don't even wanna say that he's, like, not well, because I have no evidence of that. It's just he was not someone that she knew at all.

[Hannah Smith]

He clearly had a desire to be in contact with her in some way.

[Pasha Eaton]

And it has to me many similar qualities of the case with Lonnie Jean Bevers Jr. Lonnie made a lot of phone calls to Lavon that were very threatening and very demanding and, you know, trying to, like, assert power over her. And Mabry reported messages and emails from Robert Bevers that were similar in nature. They were vile. They were racist. They were, you know, trying to assert power over her. Like, you will comply. You will do as I say. March 7, 2024. The subject line, I want to hold and kiss you. April 2, 2024, subject line, you are going to do what I tell you to do. Yeah. And just like Lonnie Bevers, lonnie Jean

[Hannah Smith]

Bevers Jr. Because you said that we're racist. I'm curious if that's a through line of the stories. Like, what's the racial.

[Pasha Eaton]

The news clip where I saw Peyton Mabry talking about these emails. She didn't go into detail about how the messages were racist. And I guess for context, Peyton Mabry is white, and so is Robert Bevers. But she was horrified by it.

[Hannah Smith]

He was just showing that he's racist somehow in these messages.

[Pasha Eaton]

Yes, he was just writing vile, racist messages to her, but she had nothing to do about it. She was, you know, revolted by them.

[Hannah Smith]

Yeah. Okay.

[Pasha Eaton]

Interesting. Yeah. But I'm not sure what he said in the messages, you know, in those headlines that I just saw them show. Yeah. And he had also done this before, so his other victims had previously included college classmates, a criminal defense attorney, and the sister of someone he knew socially. And just like Peyton Mabry, none of them were ever in a relationship with him. It seems like he felt very entitled to women.

[Hannah Smith]

Yeah.

[Pasha Eaton]

Even when they expressed zero interest in him, zero desire to speak with him. And one frustrating piece of this is that when each of his previous offenses came up and he was charged, he was charged with misdemeanors, which allowed him to just get out and keep repeating the same stalking behavior over and over again. And, you know, I have to wonder if that could just really empower someone to think there are no consequences. Although, if your father is in prison for it, I mean, look, there's no excuse. And actually.

[Hannah Smith]

Yeah, well, I was gonna ask about his father, and, you know, what his relationship with his father is, if. We know. It's just so interesting that he's showing the same behavior in a lot of ways as opposed to his father.

[Pasha Eaton]

Yeah. So it was actually. I was watching a news clip from CBS Texas, and they are the ones that said, actually his father committed these other rapes and is serving a life sentence. And that's how I learned about the lonnie Jean Bevers Jr. Case. And then I went and looked into it, but, yeah, I don't know anything about their relationship.

[Hannah Smith]

So.

[Pasha Eaton]

Robert Bevers, when he was arrested on April 29th of 2024, which he'd been stalking Peyton Mabry since, I believe, 2022. He was 40 in 2024 when he was arrested. And, you know, I even did some digging into, like, okay, has there ever been any sort of, like, genetic link or people predisposed to this behavior? And I couldn't find anything that I felt like was compelling enough to share.

[Hannah Smith]

But it does make you think it is bizarre. It's like, why. Why would he exhibit the same sort of Attributes and tendency as his father, who. He really just sounds like he didn't spend a lot of time around at all.

[Pasha Eaton]

Yeah. I mean, it is so bizarre. I just couldn't believe it. And, yeah. So he was arrested by a U.S. marshal task force on April 29, 2024. And in October of 2025, he was found guilty of stalking at his. He was sentenced to 20 years, so a landmark sentencing case for stalking. He also received a $10,000 fine.

[Hannah Smith]

Did he plead guilty?

[Pasha Eaton]

I don't know if he had a jury trial or if he pled, actually. But, yeah, he had made threats to not only Peyton Mabry, but to her family, which also is reminiscent of Lanny Jean Bevers Jr. And threatening Lavon's daughter. And in one interview, Peyton described the stalking assessment as being pretty dehabilitating, you know, and I think that's the unseen harm of stalking is that even in a case where someone isn't physically injured by their stalker, it can make everyday life very scary, and it can really shrink the world that you live in in order to keep yourself safe. And so Robert Bevers will be eligible for parole, I think, in less than five years.

[Hannah Smith]

Okay.

[Pasha Eaton]

And that's something that Peyton Mabry will have to think about, which feels really sad and unfair, especially because he's a serial stalker.

[Hannah Smith]

Yeah. I wonder if that played a role in his sentencing of 20 years. Is this pattern of behavior it did

[Pasha Eaton]

those women also testified.

[Hannah Smith]

Okay.

[Pasha Eaton]

Yeah.

[Hannah Smith]

Yeah. I mean, that's so wild. I'm so shocked that this is a father and son, which they should be

[Pasha Eaton]

entitled to do safely.

[Hannah Smith]

Totally. And then, you know, coming on the radar of people who have ill intentions and feel some sort of agency to disrupt their lives and terrorize them.

[Pasha Eaton]

Yeah. I mean, just nuts. Because I was originally looking back into Peyton's story, and I was watching that news clip, and they were like. And actually, he's the son of this other person who is in prison for the same kind of crime. I looked into different studies by different psychologists about if this tendency runs in families and didn't find anything that made me feel like, oh, yeah, this is probably what happened here. So I don't know.

[Hannah Smith]

Is that just because it hasn't been studied enough?

[Pasha Eaton]

I don't know. I mean, like, how would you study it? I just started thinking, like, how do you do that? Because stalking, even generationally, the reporting on it has probably changed so much. Like, how many people in the generation before us reported it the way that our generation hopefully feels empowered to do so. Yeah. Well, that is My off record for today, but I also have a recommendation.

[Hannah Smith]

Great.

[Pasha Eaton]

Girl on the the hunt for America's Most Wanted Woman. This is a docu series that I watched on Hulu. It's about a woman named Sarah Jo Pender who was convicted, along with her boyfriend, of murdering their two roommates back in October of 2000. The series is a deep dive into her case and her escape from prison. Ooh. Yeah. So it was a true story, but they made the doc, so I'll let them tell you about it. And Sarah Jo Pender speaks in the documentary, which is, I think, why I thought it was just really insightful. But, yeah, I will say my takeaway from this doc for anyone who watches it or what it made me think about is without telling you the whole story, she's convicted of this murder, and she believes that that was wrong, that she shouldn't have been convicted of this murder, even though she had some involvement in the crime as a whole. And a lot came out that, to me was like, oh, yeah, she shouldn't be in for this.

[Hannah Smith]

You were convinced?

[Pasha Eaton]

I was convinced. And of course, it's a documentary that she's participating in, so there's some inherent bias there. But it made me think about how it's always scary to think of someone being wrongfully convicted of a crime. That is horrible to think about. But I think it's easier for me to sort of reconcile that sometimes our justice system does make mistakes, and we should be trying really, really hard. We should be doing everything in our power for that not to happen. But I think I know that it does happen. And the tragedy that sort of compounds this is that even when evidence comes to light that says a conviction was wrong, it is so hard to undo.

[Hannah Smith]

It's so hard. It is so hard.

[Pasha Eaton]

It's like you could look it right in the face and be like, oh, wow, there's this blaring reason this should have never happened. And still it's like, well, they're already in there and that prosecutor still believes or whatever. And it just.

[Hannah Smith]

It happens all the time. I mean, it happens so often. There'll be, like, evidence that someone did not commit a crime, and still somehow they're not released from prison. It's very hard to reverse a conviction, even if there's very compelling evidence that it was a wrongful conviction. It is so freaking hard. It is so freaking hard. And there are so many forces working to keep those in place and not ruffle feathers and never admit maybe we got it wrong.

[Pasha Eaton]

Yeah. And in the case of this docu series, I guess I'll tell you a little bit is the prosecutor actually did have a change.

[Hannah Smith]

Really?

[Pasha Eaton]

He changed his mind about some of the evidence he presented that helped convict her. And I thought, wow, like, good for that prosecutor. Yeah, good on him for that. But it's like, to me, that's just as scary that, oh, okay, we got it wrong. But now we know we got it wrong and we're still not gonna do anything.

[Hannah Smith]

Yeah, yeah.

[Pasha Eaton]

And I'm speaking about that more generally. I mean, the crime that Sarah Jo Pender was convicted of is. It's a very horrific murder, double murder. And I wasn't there and I don't know what happened. But I think, like, generally it just

[Hannah Smith]

made you think about all that.

[Pasha Eaton]

It made me think about that and how devastating that would be if you were innocent or if you shouldn't have had the charges that you ended up being convicted of. And to know, oh, I managed to get all of these great reasons in front of the right people. And I'm still here.

[Hannah Smith]

Yeah, I've seen this advertised to me on Hulu.

[Pasha Eaton]

Oh, you should watch it.

[Hannah Smith]

Yeah, I will. Thanks for the recommendation and for telling me this wild, multi generational story.

[Pasha Eaton]

Yeah, thanks for listening. We'll be back next week. If you have a story for us, we would love to hear it. Our email is thenifexactlyrightmedia.com or you can follow us on Instagram, heknifepodcast or blueskyenifepodcast.

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This has been an exactly right production. Hosted and produced by me, Hannah Smith

[Pasha Eaton]

and me, Pasha Eaton. Our producers are Tom Bregel and Alexis Amorosi.

[Hannah Smith]

This episode was mixed by Tom Breyfogle.

[Pasha Eaton]

Our associate producer is Christina Chamberlain.

[Hannah Smith]

Our theme is music is by birds in the airport.

[Pasha Eaton]

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