SEATTLE — After a 47-year-old Seattle man got a massage in May, King County prosecutors say he was stalked for months by his masseur, who showed up at the victim’s gym and coffee shop, slopped paint on his vehicle and doorstep, twice appeared naked in his front yard, and installed a tracking device on his Jeep.
Christopher Piscatella, 34, allegedly became fixated on the client, who found Piscatella on massagefinder.com, an online directory for professional massage therapists offering therapeutic massage, court records say. But a search of the state Department of Health’s website found no record of Piscatella as a licensed massage therapist.
Prosecutors last week charged Piscatella with felony stalking, stalking, second-degree malicious mischief and two counts of indecent exposure, and accuse him of continuing to stalk the victim even after Piscatella was served with an anti-stalking court order last month. Piscatella was arrested in his car Nov. 20, a half-mile from the victim’s previous residence in Seattle’s Green Lake neighborhood; he remains jailed in lieu of $150,000 bail, jail and court records show.
The first three digits of Piscatella’s cellphone number is an area code in Houston, Texas. He does not appear to have a criminal history in Washington.