CSI: Miami alum Eva LaRue is pulling back the curtain on a chilling chapter of her life in My Nightmare Stalker: The Eva LaRue Story, a new Paramount+ docuseries that chronicles the years-long harassment she and her daughter endured. The true-crime project blends first-person accounts with investigative details to document how one anonymous tormentor upended a family’s sense of safety — and how a breakthrough ultimately brought the case to a close.
The series centers on LaRue and her daughter, Kaya Callahan, who speak candidly on-camera about the ordeal, its impact, and the relief that followed an arrest. It’s a harrowing story with a hard-won ending, and a personal one LaRue hopes will help other stalking victims feel seen and supported.
What My Nightmare Stalker Covers
According to the docuseries’ logline, the nightmare began at the height of LaRue’s visibility on CSI: Miami, when a handwritten letter landed with a signature designed to instill fear: “Freddie Krueger.” That taunting tone gave way to graphic threats and violent fantasies across years of correspondence, escalating from intimidation to targeted harassment.
In an interview with People, LaRue said the earliest letters arrived through her manager and publicist, and she initially wondered whether the hate mail was a twisted prank. Her concern deepened when messages included warnings like, “I am going to instill fear into every part of your life.”
As the letters piled up, the stalker’s focus widened to include her young daughter. “It was the most heinous, most deplorable, most sickening, most terrifying threats,” LaRue told the outlet. “And then he began leveling them against my little girl.” Callahan was just 5 years old when the threats began, a detail the docuseries contextualizes with the practical steps mother and daughter took to stay safe.
LaRue describes installing security cameras, changing daily routines, and relocating three times over more than a decade — measures that brought vigilance but not an end to the messages. She also made a point of limiting what she read and what she shared with her daughter. “Because my mom kept so much hidden, I didn’t know much about it,” Callahan told People when discussing the documentary. “It was like reliving it and yet experiencing it for the very first time.”
The threats grew more personal over time. By 2019, the stalker had learned where Callahan attended high school, a chilling reminder of how quickly menacing words can move into the real world. My Nightmare Stalker traces that escalation with a careful timeline and firsthand recollections from the family and investigators.
Release Date And Where To Watch
My Nightmare Stalker: The Eva LaRue Story premieres Thursday, November 13, exclusively on Paramount+. The docuseries arrives as interest in victim-centered true-crime storytelling continues to grow, with projects increasingly giving the microphone to those directly affected rather than focusing solely on perpetrators.
Paramount+ has positioned the series as both a personal narrative and a procedural unpacking of how a faceless stalker eluded identification for years. Viewers can expect interviews with LaRue and Callahan, excerpts from the original letters, and an inside look at the techniques that ultimately cracked the case.
How The Case Was Solved — And What Happened Next
After more than a decade, a crucial break came in 2019 when DNA was recovered from one of the letters. The sample led investigators to identify the stalker as James David Rogers, who was arrested soon after. In 2022, Rogers pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges and was later sentenced to 40 months in prison.
For Callahan, the arrest was a turning point. “It was very freeing,” she said of the moment authorities finally made an arrest. “I just felt like I could live a normal life again.” The series captures that sense of relief while acknowledging the lasting impact of living under threat for so long.
LaRue explains that even amid fear, she set firm boundaries around what she would allow the harassment to take from her and her child. Reading only a subset of the most disturbing letters and shielding her daughter from their contents became survival strategies — a way to control what little she could.
Why Eva LaRue Is Sharing Her Story Now
With the legal case resolved, LaRue says her goal in revisiting the ordeal is to advocate for others navigating similar situations. “It’s not just celebrities — all of us can be targeted through social media,” she said. “We want to help everybody who’s being stalked and instill some hope.”
My Nightmare Stalker positions that mission front and center, presenting practical context around reporting harassment, documenting evidence, and staying vigilant both online and off. While the series is built around one family’s experience, its broader message is about awareness and the power of persistence when systems take time to catch up.
For fans who know LaRue from her work on CSI: Miami, the docuseries offers a personal, unfiltered perspective that rarely makes it to the screen. For anyone drawn to thoughtful true-crime storytelling, it’s a sobering account of how threats evolve, how investigations gain traction, and how victims rebuild when the messages finally stop.
My Nightmare Stalker: The Eva LaRue Story premieres November 13 on Paramount+.
