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According to Toronto Police, Erstikaitis allegedly walked into the U.S. Consular Office on University Ave. on July 18, 2016 to seek asylum and pushed her way in, shouting “ISIS is coming to kill you.”

Sun sources at the time alleged she was armed with a three-inch box-cutter blade, which was used to slash a security guard’s throat, narrowly missing a major artery. As the woman was taken to the ground, she allegedly swung the knife again, slicing his right arm.

At her first court appearance, she complained about being “tortured” and “terrorized” by “my government.”

The question is why she wasn’t safely locked away at the time.

Like a more cunning Forrest Gump, she always seems to attach herself to the notorious and run up a thick resume of bizarre headlines. “I am famous, google me,” she wrote on one of her online profiles.

Now 38, she first gained attention as a teenaged superfan of Paul Bernardo, insisting the serial killer was innocent. In 1999, her obsession drove her to call — and threaten to kill — Debbie Mahaffy, the mother of Leslie Mahaffy, who was brutally murdered by Bernardo almost a decade earlier.

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If that weren’t cruel enough, Erstikaitis would sometimes call the Mahaffy home and pretend she was their slain daughter.

Convicted of making death threats, Erstikaitis was sentenced to two years probation. She put it down to youthful hijinks.

“As a Goth teenager in the 90s I was fascinated by horror movies and serial killers and I started writing to Bernardo because I thought it would be cool to write to a serial killer,” she explained on a white nationalist site in 2013. “Then one day my friends and I foolishly thought it would be amusing to place a prank phone call to the mother of one of Bernardo’s victims and I was charged.”