Docs: Muncie stalking suspect out on bond faked suicide note to contact victim
Jan 17, 2025
MUNCIE, Ind. — A Muncie man - previously charged with domestic battery and strangulation -has been arrested again after police say he stalked the victim he's banned from seeing and wrote fake suicide notes to try and contact her.
Brandon Williams mugshot
Brandon Devin Williams, 39, was arrested and charged this week by Muncie police and charged with felony stalking and misdemeanor invasion of privacy.
Williams was already arrested last month for violent crimes but was out on a $10,000 bond when the alleged stalking occurred.
Court documents detail how Williams was first arrested on Dec. 12, 2024, for reportedly battering and strangling a woman he was in a relationship with.
A protection order was then issued on Dec. 20 that prevented Williams from being near the victim. At his initial hearing on Dec. 23, a no-contact order was also filed against Williams.
Three days after his initial hearing, Williams bonded out of jail on Dec. 26 with a jury trial scheduled to begin in April 2025. However, it wasn't long before Williams again found himself in legal trouble.
The victim in Williams' domestic violence case contacted Muncie police on Jan. 4, 2025, stating that she was receiving emails from an account claiming to be Williams' sister. The emails said that he'd attempted suicide and left a note addressed to his victim.
The next day, the victim again contacted Muncie police saying that a woman's Facebook account had been messaging her about Williams' suicide attempt. However, when the victim received a phone call from the account, she said she recognized Williams' voice.
She said that Williams told her to meet him in his hotel room and said that "he would send goons after her" if she did not. During the conversation, Williams reportedly acknowledged that the call was a violation of his protective order.
An MPD officer filed a probable cause affidavit for Williams' arrest on Jan. 8 charging him with invasion of privacy. However, before officers could arrest him, police said Williams again contacted the woman he was banned from seeing - this time in person.
Muncie police were called on Jan. 10 to a local home in reference to a man trespassing. Officials immediately recognized the address as the home that Williams and his victim shared before his domestic battery arrest.
Police crews arrived to find Williams at the location, a clear violation of the court orders protecting the woman living there. Court documents state that he was then taken into custody and charged with two counts of invasion of privacy. However, no online court records exist for this arrest.
Court documents detail how Williams continued to contact his victim in the days after showing up at her house. On Jan. 12, the woman told police that she received several text messages from her stalker. On Jan. 13, she said Williams made numerous video calls from different platforms and sent her messages threatening suicide.
On Jan. 16, the woman gave police voicemail messages left by Williams in which he apologized and proclaimed his love for the victim. Later in the day, she reportedly got a voicemail from a man claiming to work for Mutual America who wanted to discuss "the estate of Brandon Williams." The woman said she recognized the voice as that of Williams.
Later that day, Williams was tracked down at the Best Way Inn and taken into custody by police. During an interview, he reportedly admitted to repeatedly contacting the woman and even said he changed his voice to try and call under various aliases.
Williams' phone records show he placed at least 17 calls to his victim between Jan. 10 and Jan. 16 and also sent dozens of texts. However, Williams told police that the woman had "always contacted him first."
Muncie Police subsequently arrested Williams. He was booked into the Delaware County Jail around 8:30 p.m. Thursday on charges of felony stalking and misdemeanor invasion of privacy.
Jail records show that on Friday the bond was set at $50,000 in Williams' newest case. However, online court records have not yet been updated to reflect an initial hearing in his case and no jury trial date has been set.