(WHAS11) - Police say they found a gun, handcuffs and binoculars in a retired police officer's car; man his ex-girlfriend calls violent.
Now that former Louisville Police officer, Terry Henry, is charged with stalking
The victim says she's been trying to keep Henry away from her for months, but nothing's worked.
She says she's called police multiple times and even tried to take out a protection order against him, but no one believed she was really in danger.
“This is where he was watching the house,” said Denise Caffee, Henry’s ex-girlfriend.
Caffee says she awoke Thursday to a nightmare.
When she glanced into the alley behind her home, she says she saw her ex-boyfriend, Terry Henry, sitting inside his car drinking vodka while watching her.
Caffee locked herself inside and called police.
“They found binoculars, a gun, handcuffs, gloves a mask and a change of clothes,” Caffee said.
It wasn't the first time Caffee says Henry has stalked her.
She says he wrote a threatening note on the "for sale" sign out front earlier this week.
Caffee says Henry left eight letters on her front door in the past five days.
“It looks like gas station napkins,” she said, describing many of the notes.
Their contents filled with signs of obsession.
“I'm already dead without you. I still love you and want you and don't want to lose you,” said one note.
Caffee first met Henry two years ago.
“He was cool at first, but after not even a couple of months, he started going a little warped,” Caffee said.
So she tried to break it off.
“I knew I wasn't dealing with a full deck, so I wanted to do it nice. But the violence got worse and worse every time he came here. He dragged me down the back stairs by my leg, shoved me up against my bookcase, grabbed me by the hair on my head, punched me four or five times, “Caffee said.
But Caffee says every time she called police, they let him go without charging him.
She thinks she knows why.
“Cause he's an ex-police officer,” she said.
A police spokesperson said Henry was a Louisville Police Officer until he retired in 1989.
His years of service were not immediately available.
Since Caffee says Henry intensified his threats, she went to the courthouse to try to get relief from the courts on Monday.
“So I went there to try to get a protective order against him, and she said they denied it” The reason the judge listed on the form was “no recent violence”.
While the emergency protection order was denied, it's not likely that Henry will be getting out soon.
He's in Metro Corrections under a $25,000 bond.
Caffee will appear again in court next Tuesday to ask for a permanent Domestic Violence order.
