Overview
- My Nightmare Stalker: The Eva LaRue Story premieres November 13 on Paramount+ as a two-part documentary featuring LaRue, her daughter Kaya Callahan, and investigators.
- The stalking began in 2007 with dozens of graphic threat letters signed “Freddie Krueger,” which escalated from targeting LaRue to directly menacing her child.
- In 2019, the stalker impersonated Kaya’s father in a call to her high school, prompting urgent intervention by LaRue and underscoring the escalation.
- DNA on a mailed letter led authorities to Ohio resident James David Rogers, who was arrested in 2019 and later pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges, receiving a 40-month sentence in 2022.
- Rogers has since been released, according to recent reports, and LaRue is using the documentary to press for stronger legal protections for stalking victims and broader awareness of the crime’s lasting impact.