Fri Nov 14 14:20:00 UTC 2025: Actress Eva LaRue Breaks Silence on 12-Year Stalking Nightmare in New Docuseries

LOS ANGELES – Actress Eva LaRue, best known for her role in “CSI: Miami,” is opening up about a terrifying 12-year ordeal where she and her daughter, Kaya Callahan, were relentlessly stalked. LaRue describes the experience as “psychological terrorism,” revealing the constant fear and paranoia that gripped their lives.

“You become your own prisoner,” LaRue told Fox News Digital. “Your mind is constantly in absolute terror mode.”

The nightmare began in 2007 with a chilling letter signed “Freddie Krueger,” containing graphic threats of rape, torture, and murder. The letters continued, escalating in violence and detail, leaving LaRue, then a single mother, constantly looking over her shoulder.

LaRue and her daughter moved multiple times, took circuitous routes home, and slept with weapons nearby, but the stalker always found them. Callahan told Fox News Digital that there was love, support and safety, but also a “shame, guilt and fear that really kept us from discussing it.”

Things escalated in 2019 when the stalker called Callahan’s school, claiming to be her father and threatening her. The FBI became involved, analyzing the letters and ultimately using genetic genealogy to identify James David Rogers, 58, as the perpetrator. Rogers was arrested in Ohio after his DNA was recovered from a discarded straw.

In 2022, Rogers pleaded guilty to multiple charges, including mailing threatening communications and stalking, and was sentenced to 40 months in federal prison. He was released in 2024.

LaRue is sharing her story in the new Paramount+ docuseries “My Nightmare Stalker: The Eva LaRue Story” to raise awareness about the widespread issue of stalking. According to the Stalking Prevention, Awareness, and Resource Center (SPARC), an estimated 13.5 million people in the U.S. are stalked each year.

LaRue hopes her story will spark conversations about stalking laws and the need for a national database and universal training for police departments. “You are never not in fear,” LaRue reflected, emphasizing the need for stalking victims to be taken seriously, as the statistics show that they could end up dead.

“My Nightmare Stalker: The Eva LaRue Story” premieres November 13.

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