The Stalking and Murder of Ryan Poston

Ryan Poston had a date with beauty queen Miss Ohio but he never showed up because he had been murdered by his obsessed ex-girlfriend

Anita Durairaj
Haunted By Crime
Published in
4 min readAug 17, 2021

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Ryan Poston (Image Source)

Ryan Poston, a good-looking 28-year-old lawyer from Cincinnati met 19-year-old Stacey Hubers, a college student, on Facebook. He was immediately attracted to her provocative Facebook pictures and by the spring of 2011, the couple met and started dating.

Trouble in the relationship started soon after because Shayna had a difficult personality. She was highly sensitive to rejection and was very possessive of Ryan. The relationship became tumultuous to the point that the two would end up breaking up and then getting back together in a non-stop cycle that lasted for 18 months.

During the couple’s break-up periods, Shayna would stalk Ryan. She would show up unexpectedly at his residence demanding to see him and then refuse to leave. She would relentlessly send text messages to him. At one point, she sent 100 text messages for every one message from Ryan. It was normal for her to send him 75 texts within an hour.

Ryan was a softie and didn’t want to hurt Shayna’s feelings so he would get back together with her. However, he was not serious about the relationship and didn’t think it would go far. He tried to break up with her and told his friends that Shayna was “crazy” and “too attached.”

Eventually, Ryan lost complete interest in Shayna and decided to end the relationship with her for good. Perhaps, Shayna knew that Ryan was planning to end their relationship because she joked about it when she and Ryan were at a shooting range. Shayna texted her friend saying, “When I go to the shooting range with Ryan tonight I want to turn around and shoot and kill him and play like it’s an accident.”

It was definitely a sign of things to come as Ryan started talking to other women. Ryan was particularly interested in Audrey Bolte, Miss Ohio 2012. He had been communicating with her on Facebook during his on and off relationship with Shayna. After a few days of Facebook messaging and texting, Ryan and Audrey decided to meet in person at a bar. The meeting was set for October 12, 2012. On that day, Audrey waited for Ryan but he never…

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Anita Durairaj
Haunted By Crime

A fan of murder mysteries and writing about true crime. https://anitadurairaj.medium.com/membership