Overview
- The FBI used DNA from mailed envelopes and genetic genealogy to identify Ohio resident James David Rogers, confirming the match with DNA on a discarded soda straw and arresting him in 2019.
- Rogers pleaded guilty in 2022 to two counts of mailing threatening communications, two counts of stalking and one count of threats by interstate communications, and received a 40-month federal sentence.
- People and CBS News report he was released in 2024, a development LaRue says has renewed concerns for her and her daughter’s safety.
- The harassment began in 2007 with 37 graphically violent letters signed “Freddie Krueger” and escalated to calls to her daughter’s high school pretending to be her father in 2019.
- LaRue says years of moves, security measures and hypervigilance took a physical and psychological toll, and she hopes the two-part Paramount+ documentary, premiering Nov. 13, prompts stronger protections for stalking victims.