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A woman who missed out on her dream home in San Diego has been convicted of stalking the young family who outbid her.

Kathy Rowe waged an escalating campaign of abuse, signing the buyers up to magazine subscriptions and sending them $1,200 worth of adult diapers before posting ads for fake parties at their home and leaving their photographs on sex websites.

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Ms. Rowe, 53, viewed 100 homes before setting her heart on a Spanish-style bungalow at the end of a cul-de-sac in San Diego’s Carmel Valley.

A few years earlier, she had been named one of “San Diego’s best 50 mothers” in a competition, an award for the way she cared for her severely disabled daughter.

I walked in, it was my house. And when I found out we didn’t get it, it was devastating. It was heartbreaking

She was described by her lawyer as an “outstanding mother, wife and community member.”

But Ms. Rowe snapped when she lost out on the house. There had been seven bidders and it went for US$779,000 (about $970,000 CAD) to Jerry Rice, a special education teacher, and his wife Janice Ruhter, a microbiologist at a children’s hospital.