“..one million women are stalked in the U.S. every year. In two-thirds of the cases where a female victim asks for a police protective order, that order is violated.. One third of female murder victims are killed by an intimate partner. 76 percent of these had been stalked by the partner in the year prior to their murder. Murder ranks second (after accidents) as the leading cause of death among young women. Murder is the number one cause of death of pregnant women in the United States.