Hey, I'm Steph and this is not today.

Hello and welcome. Before we jump into this week's episode, I wanted to let you know that bonus

episode number 49 is out now over on our Patreon. We're talking about the sinking of the Blythe Star.

In October of 1973, 18-year-old Mick Dolman joined the crew of the Blythe Star for a two-night voyage towards

Kings Island off the northwest coast of Tasmania. As the ship began to sink, all 10 men on board

scrambled into a small life raft. Once aboard, they learned their captain had failed to send out

a Mayday call and didn't grab their emergency

radio, which meant nobody knew where they were or that they had even gone down.

And when they finally made it to land after like eight or nine days at sea, they honestly

weren't much better off. So that's what we're talking about over on Patreon. And I may or

may not have talked about a super secret, very exciting project that I

am working on and will be coming out soon. So if you want that exclusive drop, you can find that

at patreon.com slash not today podcast. But today we're going to be talking about a terrifying

celebrity stalking story. The concept of celebrities having stalkers is really nothing new.

They're so far into the public eye, it's almost normalized that they would have an obsessed stalker.

There are so many perks of being a celebrity, the downsides are almost glazed over, but the

realities can truly be horrifying. Celebrities know that when they

become famous, they're going to have a lot of eyes on them, and most of the time it's just the

eyes of their adoring fans, which is great, but sometimes those adoring fans can watch a little

too closely and cross the boundary into an obsessed and even violent stalker, and that was the case for TV star Eva LaRue.

Listener discretion is advised.

Eva Leroux was born in Long Beach, California, to Marcy and Luis Leroux.

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