I first ran into E-Watchman's website in late 2006. I accidentally stumbled onto it while searching for a JW-friendly forum. For the next few months after that, I kept reading E-Watchman's articles and fought with trying to decide if he was right or not. I would read into the Bible certain things that weren't there. Eventually I found some websites that exposed him as a fraud, and I didn't know where to turn.
In April/May of 2007 I was at the KH and we were going over the one article praising the GB for all it supposedly does, especially in bringing in the "great crowd" and supposedly showing them all of their "great truths". I could see through the presumptousness of it all... Then I found a website that had nothing but Watchtower quotes from all of its magazines/books. I began to see all of the failed prophecies and cover-ups. This is what really helped me.
I finally found Freeminds.org in the summer of 2007, and all of the articles under the "History", "Doctrine", and "Prophecy" sections helped me come to terms with what I learned.
Late in 2007 I finally ran into this forum, JWFacts.com and a few others. Reading CoC sealed the deal for me and brought me some peace. It confirmed everything I had read.