
DATE: Wednesday, July 9, 1997               TAG: 9707090432

SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B5   EDITION: FINAL  

SOURCE: BY JON FRANK, STAFF WRITER 

DATELINE: NORFOLK                           LENGTH:   78 lines

CORRECTION/CLARIFICATION: * A story in Wednesday's Hampton Roads section about Katherine Shepard-Wright had an incorrect spelling of her name. Correction published Thursday, July 10, 1997. * EX-CHESAPEAKE POLICEMAN ARRESTED ON STALKING CHARGE THE CHARGE STEMS FROM HARASSING PHONE CALLS MADE TO HIS FORMER GIRLFRIEND.

Katherine Shepherd-Wright says her life during the last three weeks has been just like a horror movie.

She was terrorized, Wright says, by former Chesapeake Police Officer Daniel W. Langevin.

Langevin, according to Wright, is an angry ex-boyfriend who was driven to stalk her by his anguish over the end of their relationship, a ruined career in law enforcement and a disfiguring pipe-bomb accident.

On Tuesday, Langevin, 42, was arrested on a stalking charge and is being held without bond at the Norfolk City Jail. The charge stems from a recent series of harassing phone calls to Wright and at least one incident where Langevin is believed to have driven by Wright's house. He is scheduled to appear this morning in General District Court.

Langevin, in a telephone interview, denied that he has stalked Wright.

``He is agitated, I know it. He is angry and he blames me for everything that has happened to him,'' Wright said during an interview last week. ``He blames me for his life going down the tubes.''

On three occasions, she says she received harassing telephone calls in which the caller described intimate details of her life, such as the type of drink she carried with her lunch and the clothes she wore to work.

Since June 17, Wright says, she has taken out warrants against Langevin three separate times for harassing telephone calls and stalking.

All of the calls were made to Norfolk Psychiatric Center, where she works as a receptionist. The center is near Sentara Leigh Memorial Hospital.

The calls included threats of death and torture, Wright said, and were extremely detailed.

``He described my hair and my clothes,'' Wright said. ``He described the drinks I take into work. This is somebody who is watching me, who is around me, who is close. This is when I started thinking, `I'm going to be dead.' ''

Wright met Langevin 10 years ago when Wright worked in Chesapeake with the city's emergency services and Langevin was a Chesapeake police officer.

They lived together in Chesapeake for almost five years, from 1989 until 1994. But the relationship was marred by frequent arguments and occasional violence, Wright said.

When she tried to leave Langevin, Wright said, ``he flipped out.''

On three occasions, Wright said she took out warrants against Langevin while he was a police officer - once for destruction of personal property, once for harassing telephone calls and once for stalking.

During one of their disputes in 1994, a Chesapeake SWAT team was called to their home. She left him after that incident and soon after Langevin left the department, Wright said.

In January 1995, Langevin was seriously injured when a pipe bomb he built exploded while he was in a rural area near the Virginia Beach-Chesapeake city line. Parts of his feet and left hand were severed by the blast. He also suffered other disfiguring injuries.

Langevin claims the accident was a botched suicide attempt. Wright believes it was an attempt to build a bomb to use against her.

From 1995 until recently, Langevin was in jail, and Wright's life was peaceful, she says. Wright said she met her current husband during that time and had a baby. It could not be determined why Langevin was jailed. After Langevin's recent release, Wright, 27, says her troubles started again.

Now, she worries that Langevin will be released again and her life of fear will begin yet again.

``I am terrified,'' Wright said. ``I live every minute, every second, looking over my shoulder. I can't sleep at night and I can't eat.'' ILLUSTRATION: STEVE EARLEY/The Virginian-Pilot

Katherine Shepherd-Wright says her ex-boyfriend Daniel Langevin made

harassing phone calls and stalked her. KEYWORDS: ARREST STALKING CHESAPEAKE POLICE OFFICER

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