Famous actress haunted by nightmare stalker for over a decade

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Society & Culture, True Crime

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🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This Week on True Crime News The Podcast: As Eva LaRue’s career ascended, a stalker haunted, taunted, and threatened her safety with a terrifying series of letters all signed “Freddy Krueger.” While police were nearly powerless to stop the threats, advancements in DNA technology eventually identified the harasser as James David Rogers, helping to bring the nightmare to an end. LaRue’s story of survival and justice is highlighted in the new docuseries “My Nightmare Stalker: The Eva LaRue Story” available now on Paramount+. LaRue joins host Ana Garcia. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	A word of warning. This podcast explores graphic and disturbing stories and includes some strong
0:05.8	language. It therefore may not be suitable for our young listeners or other folks who may find it
0:11.6	disturbing. Hello and welcome to a special edition of True Crime News, the podcast. I'm your host,
0:17.2	Anna Garcia. We have an amazing story of survival today, an incredible guest. Many of you
0:22.4	will recognize her from television. Actress Eva Leroux warmed our hearts on the soap opera,
0:28.7	All My Children. She married her on-screen love interest, had a fairy tale wedding, welcome to baby girl,
0:33.9	and then went on to star in the role of her career on CSI Miami. But for 12 years,
0:41.6	which really should have been her happiest years, Eva was stalked and terrorized by a violent
0:46.8	and vicious predator, a man who wrote to her, her daughter, her husband, even called the daughter's
0:52.5	school, pretending to be the girl's father.
0:55.7	And with the use of DNA technology, the FBI was able to find him and arrest him.
1:00.5	This incredible case and how it was solved is the subject of an extraordinary documentary on Paramount Plus called My Nightmare Stalker, the Eva LaRue story.
1:13.7	Eva, thank you so much for coming on the podcast today.
1:17.8	I cannot tell you how grateful I am for the generosity of your time to tell this incredible story.
1:24.5	Thank you.
1:25.0	Thank you so much for having me.
1:26.2	I really appreciate it.
1:28.1	You know, I was sharing with you before we started recording that when I watched the documentary
1:33.0	this week, that it spoke to me not only as a human being, as a fan of yours, and how
1:38.0	horrified I was for you and your daughter and your family, but as someone who is a true
1:43.1	crime journalist, the way you brought us
1:46.3	into the investigation and explained to us the limitations and then how your predator was captured,
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