Lauren McCluskey was an excellent 21-year-old athlete who competed on the track at field team at the University of Utah. At the beginning of Lauren's senior year there, in 2018, she met a man named Sean Fields while out at a club. Sean was 28 years old and went to the local community college. Sean and Lauren started dating for a few weeks in September and October and things were going great...or so Lauren thought.
It turned out that Sean Fields was actually 37-year-old Melvin Shawn Roland and he was a criminal. Roland had been arrested many times throughout his troubled life. Once Lauren found out about his past, and the fact that he had lied to her about his age and his name, she broke it off with him.
But Melvin was not done with her. He stalked, extorted, blackmailed and harrassed Lauren so much so that Lauren went to the campus police and the local police. But no one would listen and no one would take her claims seriously. Until one night, in October of 2018, the unthinkable happened.

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