Holtzclaw constantly returned
Holtzclaw used his status and authority in many ways to keep violating victims. In their testimony, the women said they kept seeing him after the initial assault, and in at least one case he entered one of their houses. By reappearing before the women he assaulted, he asserted his sustained power as a police officer and their status as women who felt they had no legal recourse to stop him.
Several women said Holtzclaw returned to their homes or was spotted lurking nearby, sometimes on multiple occasions. In one incident, he pulled up to one woman who was at a function with friends and family members. He asked whether she’d told anyone about his previous interaction with her. When she said she, in fact, told her “whole neighborhood” what happened, he sped away.
Another woman, identified as T.B., said she noticed Holtzclaw’s patrol car in her driveway or around her home on multiple occasions. One day, her boyfriend said he woke up to Holtzclaw in their house, where Holtzclaw demanded the boyfriend come outside so he could run his name through the police system. T.B.’s mother insisted T.B. move her family out of the neighborhood to avoid the officer, and she did.