Serialously with Annie Elise
252: The Viral TikTok of a Stalker & Family Massacre... Now She's Telling It All | Fallon Farinacci
Mon, 17 Mar 2025
At just nine years old, Fallon Farinacci survived the unthinkable—being held hostage by her mother’s stalker and witnessing her parents' murder. Torn from her Métis community and denied the care she needed, she’s now speaking out about survival, systemic failures, and the fight for justice. Tune in as Fallon joins Annie in this week's episode to tell her story, discuss resilience, advocacy, and where she stands now after that horrific night. Follow Fallon: IG: https://www.instagram.com/fallonfarinacci?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fallonfarinacci?_t=ZT-8um67gEp4gg&_r=1 Go Fund Me: https://tr.ee/3MUJadjWWV Join our True Crime Club for access to BTS, Bonus Content, Our Private Group Chat, Giveaways and More! Shop Our True Crime Merch Follow the podcast on: IG, Facebook and TikTok For Business Inquiries: 10toLife@WMEAgency.com About Annie Today’s Sponsors: Fum: Head to tryfum.com and use code SERIAL to claim this limited-time offer today. Mint Mobile: Grab 3 months of service for just $15 a month at Mintmobile.com/AE. O Positiv: Take proactive care of your health and head to OPositiv.com/AE or enter AE at checkout for 25% off your first purchase.
Chapter 1: Why is Fallon's story going viral on TikTok?
Hey, true crime besties. Welcome back to an all-new episode of Serialist League. Hey, everybody. Welcome back to an all new episode of Serialistly with me, Annie Elise. I hope you are ready for a deep dive today, but I also want to give you a little bit of a warning. It's going to be an emotional one. Now, this episode isn't the same format as our normal deep dives.
It is definitely going to be a long episode, but we have a very special guest joining us for this episode today. And here's the reason why. Let me backtrack a little bit and let you know why I chose this case that we're talking about today.
As you know, I get a lot of case recommendations, case requests, suggestions, all of that, whether it's through our website, through email, DM, comments, whatever it may be. Well, a couple of weeks ago, when I tell you the amount of times that I was tagged in this TikTok video, I'm talking like well into over 1,000 times. My notifications were just going crazy. I'm like, what is going on?
So I go to this video that I keep being tagged in.
Today marks 31 years since my family and I were held hostage by my mother's stalker and we witnessed him take both of my parents' lives. before he took his own. One of the RCMP constables that was alerted that we were being held hostage accidentally fell back asleep after receiving the initial call.
The first 911 call went in at 2.30 in the morning and the RCMP didn't enter our home until after 8.30 in the morning. And by then it was too late. My younger brother and I sat just feet away from both of our parents for several hours before the RCMP finally entered our home.
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Chapter 2: How did Fallon survive a family massacre?
It goes without saying my brothers and I endured a lot of trauma and unfortunately we never received proper post-traumatic care and as a result of this both of my brothers have since taken both of their lives.
The moment I saw this, I was immediately moved because not only what this girl had to endure and watching her mother and father die and be killed by a stalker who was also a family friend of sorts. This guy grew up with her father. They were best friends. They were childhood friends.
So then to have that level of betrayal on top of it and being a young child and being frightened and then sitting with your deceased parents for hours waiting for the police to show up. The amount of trauma that somebody would endure after that. She has done so much advocacy work. She is so incredibly brave. She was really trying to
use her experience to platform better causes and champion other people. So when I saw this video, I was, as I said, immediately moved. I contacted her immediately and basically said, Oh my gosh, your story is so powerful. I am so sorry for what you've had to go through, what your family endured. I would love to talk with you.
I would love to give you the opportunity to share your story on my platform. where you hopefully will reach a wider audience where you can affect change where all these goals and things that you want to accomplish can be had. And so we had been talking back and forth for a little bit and she is here now. We flew her out from Canada. She is here with me in Orange County in studio today.
And I really want you to hear from this case from her point of view. It would be so easy for me to share it with you. I have researched it and I have all of the details, but it's not as impactful in my opinion, unless you hear it directly from her, from her firsthand experience. So I am very excited because today I have Fallon Farinacci joining me.
And she is going to talk us through that horrific night, the events that led up to it, and what unfortunately happened even after that nightmare that she and her siblings had to endure.
so without further ado let's bring in fallon hi fallon thank you so much for joining me today i am really excited to have you here i already mentioned in the intro i saw the viral tick tock i'm not even kidding i haven't even told you this yet i think i was tagged over a thousand times in this oh my god and so i was incredibly moved the second i saw it and i'm just so excited to speak with you in person i'm so happy you're here thank you for coming out thank you um i'm
gonna cry right away don't do that it just means a lot thank you no i'm so glad you're here and i'm glad you're having a good time and away from the cold weather so that's good um so what i would love to do is just start at the beginning a little bit i want you to feel as though you can be the one in charge of this telling your story sharing what you're comfortable with and i would love to start more of just your childhood if you could tell me about that and then we can just slowly move in to the times of what happened
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Chapter 3: What was Fallon's childhood like in a small Métis community?
I believe they would just be under the category of Native Americans in the States. And I am Métis and so was my father. My dad was the reason and is the reason why I'm so proud. He was a very proud Indigenous man.
I'm forever grateful for that because I don't think if he was the way he was then I wouldn't you know have that instilled in me at such a young age so we lived a you know what you would consider and I and I hate saying this like a normal life right like I had Both my parents, we lived in our family home. I had an older brother and a younger brother.
So my parents' names are Morris and Sherry Paul. My older brother's name was Carson and my younger brother's name is Clinton. And so we grew up there around community, culture.
What is it like growing up with such a small community? I grew up in what I thought was a small community. It certainly doesn't compare to the size of yours. So I always thought everybody... knew everything about me, that I knew everything about everybody else. What was that like growing up in a community of 300 people?
That's exactly what it was. Everyone knows everyone's business to a fault sometimes. But it's also nice because it's that community feeling It genuinely feels like home. That's just where my father had grown up as well. My mom is non-Indigenous. She grew up in St. Catharines, which is the place I call home now. And that's in Ontario, just a little bit outside of Toronto.
They met and then they decided to settle in our little St. Nastash community. Okay.
Great. Well, so then to walk me through, so you're young, you're growing up there. What you had described as, you know, a normal childhood, a normal life. What age were you when you were first introduced to your mother stalker as a family friend even before you knew he was dangerous?
Probably like younger than I can even remember. So he was a part of the community. So he himself was also raised there. And I want to also mention when I say normal, I also say that to kind of get people to question what they think when something bad happens to someone, does it really matter if they lived in, quote, a normal life? That's a great point.
Because I think so many people think, oh, that was deserving. Oh, that was like part of their social like group of people. and they don't question sometimes, it happens to everyone. So my mom's stalker, I honestly, I feel like there was in a time that I don't really remember him. He was in our life to a certain degree. Like I remember my people telling me afterwards that my mom's stalker
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Chapter 4: When did Fallon's family realize they were in danger?
But it's funny how those things... They just have a way of sticking. Yeah.
And it might not be related, but I mean...
who knows with trauma right so so your so your mother's stalker was a family friend a childhood friend of your father's correct so but not a close enough family friend that you would ever say he was like an uncle to us or he was close he was just around it was a tight-knit community came to dinner every now and then but no core memories or big things that stand out
I don't like I wouldn't even say he came to dinner. That's how little. Yeah. And I would say that I tried to use the term loosely with him being friends with my dad because I wouldn't say that he was friends with him. But it's one of those community things that I don't know, maybe one person thought he was friends with him at one point. Right.
But just so small and tight knit that, of course, you're going to be friendly and know everybody. Yeah.
Yeah.
So at what point, to your knowledge, did things then start transitioning? He, of course, was an alcoholic, as you're saying. He was a bit of a bully in the town and had to get back on the straight and narrow. But when was the behavior shift where it went from him being friendly to people to then becoming fixated on your mother?
Right. So he had, before he even became fixated on my mother, I know that there was a case where he had held a woman hostage. yeah wait what and he wasn't ever arrested or held in jail or no okay tell me about that yeah i think he was i believe for that case he was arrested and then they the rcmp there is a case that they had fought bail in 1990 for him
saying that he was a danger to the community if he was released out on bail. And I believe that that is when he had held the woman hostage, but that news article doesn't mention that he had held a woman hostage in that one. So I don't know what the case was specifically. And so... It was now fast forward to 1992.
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Chapter 5: How did law enforcement fail Fallon's family?
and then he shifted us over in the middle of the bingo and put us with ken and debbie bowden and so those are my parents best friends that's my best friend's parents and so we sat with them and i remember like just my memory is that he got us to move really quickly while the bingo was going on and everyone was there right from the community and so we then
my dad didn't say like, you know, you're going to stay with them. Okay. So that my dad went and he called my mom. And I had always thought when I was younger that my mom had went straight over to my aunt's house that night, but she couldn't have because that aunt didn't have a house line.
so she had to have stayed there in order for my dad to have called and he called to say he's here he was at bingo he went to the bingo later to find out that he had actually entered the bingo with a 22 caliber sawed-off rifle under his coat oh my gosh so he was he was serious like immediately serious so that's when my mom then went over to my aunt's house
because that's where the RCMP had taken her statement based off of my memory of what had followed after that. Eventually, I go to my aunt's house while these statements are being taken. But it's not unusual in a tiny community like that.
I didn't feel fear because the it's unusual, obviously, to call the RCMP, but it's not unusual to see them because one day they're community members and the next they're not. You know what I mean? So I wasn't scared by it. No adults. made me feel anything to be worried about that night.
Yeah, you're young. I would imagine they're protecting you and what you're exposed to. And a nine-year-old isn't going to know something is dangerous or sketchy or that something bad is happening unless they're made aware of that. And I would imagine they weren't making you aware of that, of course.
No, yeah. It was never like a fear for us. Maybe my older brother, obviously, he would have probably known the details. I think if, God forbid, something like that had happened, I would think that my older child would be aware of what was happening, but who knows? Right. And so then I don't like I have no memories of anything kind of afterwards.
It's more all just court documents for the next month because I'm not made aware of it as a nine year old. And so what happened was he was arrested. that night and he was brought before a judge. Now what happened was the judge failed to, with the threat of life, he failed to order a seizure of any weapons.
And those officers never told the judge that my mom and dad's initial worry was that he had a .22 caliber rifle. They were aware of this. Like I said, it's a hunting community. You just know, like my dad would have known what kind of weapons he would have had, right? Like, just like my dad's best friend would know what my dad has because it's...
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Chapter 6: What happened the night of the hostage situation?
Yeah. So he's released on bail. They don't seize his weapons, and he's basically effectively just out to continue to wreak havoc and stalk whomever he wants, make threats, and not having any sort of reprimand to that.
Yeah. And it wasn't technically a restraining order. I forget what the wording is, but... there was something like a restraining order put into place.
A piece of paper saying, stay back, stay away, which we know those are not always the most useful tool. It's great to have it documented, but the only reason it's good to have it documented is for when something severe happens. It doesn't prevent the something severe from ever happening.
Yeah, like my grandma, my mom's mom has always had a piece of paper
is not gonna protect you no of course not of course not you would hope that law enforcement would be the ones to step in and take those precautionary measures such as seizing the weapons doing something keeping him locked up and i would imagine too even if there was a restraining order in place or whatever that was you were in such a small community so how does somebody even abide by that because he lived very close to you as well correct yeah
Yeah, and that's like a point, a great point, because I make that all the time with people, is you think of such a small community, if you just went a little down my street, especially even, I think to this day, because it hasn't built up that much, there's new homes and everything, but you could stand on my street and you could look across, there would be one street in between us, and you could see where he lived.
Oh yeah, so just by living proximity alone, he'd be violating whatever restraining order was in place.
Yeah. And there was no restraining order put on to stay away from my father. And there was no restraining order put on us kids either because the judge said like he didn't threaten us kids and the judge didn't feel that we were in any kind of danger from him at all. So like there's parts of that I understand, but then at the same time, I don't.
Okay, so you know how in true crime it's always the little habits that give people away? Either the neighbor noticing the late night smoke breaks or the friend catching on to some nervous fidgeting. Well, maybe it's time to ditch one of your own bad habits. That's where fume comes in. It's not a vape. It's not a pipe. It is something totally different.
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Chapter 7: How did the police respond to the emergency calls?
Oh, so she wanted to see did this woman look like her? Was he there to kill her?
yeah but in fact it was this woman's stalker and earlier that same week another woman was killed by her stalker in manitoba there was and again i'm not like a legal expert but there were laws that were in place but not enacted at that time to help protect women and so i do know that after that that they did move forward with that, whether that has saved more people's lives.
Well, I would hope so, yeah. It sounds like stalking was a clear problem if two people were killed in the same week. Right, three. Well, yes.
Yeah. So now my mom was terrified.
and she that was enough for her to say no I'm not going to this mediation for years I didn't know why I've told people I don't know why I think it was maybe she was scared she thought like what was the point my grandmother the same thing was kind of always saying like she always thought like what was the point that was the reasoning was she had seen what had happened and was like
there's no point to a mediation they've failed at them so many times up to that point so it was like maybe if i don't go they can't if she didn't go to the mediation then she could proceed with criminal um charges and that was her intention um but he was released from jail on the 26th so why was he back in jail because sorry not jail i think
You know, when you go to court and then you have to stand before a judge.
Oh, yeah.
So you're not like arrested, but then you're released again. So he was released again after because no one came to the mediation and he was released. He this is where I talk about the drugs because I know that he was taking prescription drugs that day based off of people testifying that he did that he was taking. I don't.
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Chapter 8: How has Fallon been advocating for change after her traumatic experiences?
far north manitoba it's freezing there i just got back from there it's like feels like uh it's i don't know if americans will know but it is as cold as feels like minus 48 sometimes 40 but is that celsius or fahrenheit i need the math so someone told me that they're both the same for minuses so i don't know okay yeah okay but freezing nonetheless you definitely wouldn't want to be like walking around without a booth
freezing so my brother i had heard that my brother had stopped and got boots and then went straight to ken and debbie's house and those are the same friends from bingo yes yeah the best friends of your parents yeah and then my best friend as well how close did they live to your house uh very close like you could from uh my bedroom window you could see their home so close enough and then my aunt was just over as well there's a rule so you know it's a lot larger
yards, but close enough. Right. And so he then went to their house and the first 911 call went in. Well, I will say it's not 911 at that time. It was a seven digit number because it was, you know, the 90s and it was a small community. So they didn't have 911 out in these communities.
And so the first call, emergency call went in and my brother told them that he was concerned that he had entered our home, my mother's stalker, and that he heard a gunshot off and that my parents had been in court with them. My brother's words were obviously jumbled in the call. Like he just said, we're in court with him right now and that he had a gun.
and that he was inside with my mom and my dad and his two siblings. And at the time, my younger brother had just turned six and I had turned nine at that point. And my older brother, like I said, he was 17. So we're all in the home waiting for this help. I don't even know, like really at that point. So when the gunshot went off, that's what woke me up out of bed.
And that was at approximately 2.30 a.m. ?
Yes. And when I woke up, my little brother's over here in the hallway, standing in front of his bedroom door. And my parents' door is like right next door to his and mine was here. So I'd come out and I could see him crying. And so I was like, I didn't know what was going on. And so I tried to push my parents' door open, but it did, it did like, there was resistance.
So it did open, it wasn't locked shut.
But there was something against the door.
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