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By Pete Kotz in Creeps, Sex crimes, celebrity crime
Monday, Oct. 5 2009 @ 11:25AM
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Erin Andrews was stalked across the country
​Michael David Barrett puts the capital C in Creep. The middle-aged insurance salesman from suburban Chicago wasn't just your garden-variety stalker living in his mom's basement. He was a predator with a lot of firepower in MasterCard. So he spent his spare time tracking ESPN's Erin Andrews at luxury hotels across the country, hoping to videotape her in the nude.

According to Andrews' lawyer, Barrett would somehow figure out Andrews' schedule as a sideline reporter for the sports network, then call every hotel in town to see where she'd be staying. A surprising number revealed the info, even allowing Barrett to book a room next to hers. He would then rig her room's peephole so he could film through it with his cell phone. Lo and behold, a video clip of her in the nude soon appeared on the internet...

It was a major deal not only for the violation of privacy, but for Andrews' stature as ESPN's hotest babe. Though the network's regarded  for hiring women who know their sports, Andrews seemed to be ESPN's nod to convention, the blond beauty hired to do innocuous sideline interviews solely for the purpose of getting some babeliciousness on camera.

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Barrett is accused of making eight peephole videos of the sports babe
​Andrews' lawyer claims Barrett made eight videos of her, which he tried to sell to celebrity stalkers TMZ. One apparently was made at a Marriott in Nashville in September of last year.   "The [Nashville] hotel assigned rooms to the predator and the victim in an isolated alcove which facilitated his ability to film through the altered peephole in virtual privacy," lawyer Marshall Grossman told the New York Post. "The hotel was a reckless accomplice."

Barrett was caught after detectives traced him down by his email. He was arrested at Chicago's O'Hare Airport, presumably as he was about to take off on another videotaping adventure.

Judging by Grossman's use of the phrase "reckless accomplice" -- which is lawyer-speak for "I'll be looking for Aspen real estate after this lawsuit is done" -- we can be assured there are many furrowed brows at Marriott HQ this morning.