CSI Miami star Eva LaRue remembers second she went ‘white as a sheet’ half-way by means of 12-year stalking ordeal

Warning: This text incorporates dialogue of stalking and threats of sexual violence which some readers might discover distressing.

CSI Miami star Eva LaRue recalled the second she went as ‘white as a sheet’ from concern throughout her 12-year stalking ordeal.

In March 2007, the actor acquired what she thought was a daily piece of fan mail, solely to be left horrified to learn a letter which contained extremely descriptive threats of rape, homicide and dismemberment.

“I’ll kill you each and chop your our bodies into small items,” learn one risk in opposition to LaRue and her daughter, who was simply six years outdated on the time, whereas one other promised to ‘stalk [LaRue] till the day you die’.

For the subsequent 12 years, LaRue was subjected to ‘psychological terrorism’ by the hands of an nameless stalker who referred to as himself ‘Freddy Krueger’ till 2019, when he was arrested by authorities.

LaRue has now opened up about her horrifying ordeal in a brand new documentary, My Nightmare Stalker: The Eva LaRue Story, for Crime + Investigation.

Talking concerning the programme with LADbible, the 58-year-old spoke concerning the sheer terror she skilled when a dispute concerning the peak of her entrance gate noticed her house tackle publicised on a throughout a metropolis council assembly.

To be able to defend the set up of a six-foot gate on the entrance of her home, LaRue needed to converse at a Glendale metropolis council assembly being broadcast on a public TV channel, which is the place her house was revealed.

“I do not know in the event you can inform the look on my face, I simply went white as a sheet,” the All My Youngsters star instructed LADbible of the assembly. “I could not imagine that these individuals have been so negligent.

“I had simply stated to them, this is a file this thick of all of those letters that I’ve gotten to that date to that time, and that was solely midway by means of the 12 years, and, and that the very subsequent factor that they are saying is my title hooked up the tackle.”

LaRue had defined within the documentary that she’d been capable of hold her house tackle safe by following recommendation given to her by Buffy The Vampire Slayer star Sarah Michelle Gellar, which concerned buying her home underneath an LLC so it could not be traced again to her.

“I need to hope that they did not do it maliciously. I need to hope that they only did it as a result of that is a matter of enterprise that they must say the tackle,” she added, acknowledging how town council might not have realised the oversight would put her in such grave hazard.

Along with her tackle public and obtainable for anybody to seek out, LaRue and her daughter have been compelled to desert the property and transfer inside three days.

LaRue and her daughter Kaya have been capable of finding security with a brand new house and the actor’s marriage to Joe Cappuccio, nonetheless, the stalker’s letters did not cease, even escalating to the purpose the place he would present up at Kaya’s faculty and try to pose as her father.



LaRue’s stalker was finally unveiled when a breakthrough in investigative genetic family tree traced the letters to Ohio man James David Rogers. He was arrested and charged with threatening communications, threats by interstate communications, and stalking.

Rogers received 40 months in jail and three years of probation for his 12-year marketing campaign of terror, an end result which LaRue discovered ‘devastating’.

He has since been launched early and can end probation in late 2027, a call which influenced LaRue to inform her story publicly.

“We knew that doing this documentary was going to be poking the bear, and so we nearly did not do it, however we thought it was actually necessary info to share,” she added.

For those who’ve been affected by any of the problems on this article, you may contact The Nationwide Stalking Helpline on 0808 802 0300, obtainable 9.30am to 8pm Monday and Wednesday, and 9.30am to 4pm Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.