They came in the mail to Eva LaRue is Southern California house sometimes handwritten, sometimes typed from an unknown sender who called himself Freddie Krueger and vowed to rape and kill her and her young daughter.
The letters more than three dozen of them kept on coming for more than 12 years a relentless psychological assault that made the CSI Miami actress and her family afraid to step outside their home.
Early on, some letters mentioned LaRue is daughter, then 5. But in 2015 letters began arriving addressed to the child. The stalker also began calling LaRue is daughter is school saying that he was her father and was outside to pick her up.
But with the help of genetic genealogy a science that was used for the first time in California to capture the Golden State Killer the FBI in 2019 was able to take DNA from the envelopes and run it through a database yielding a list of the suspect is relatives. This eventually led them to a small town in Ohio, where they arrested a 58 year old man after pulling his DNA from a discarded Arby is straw.
James David Rogers was sentenced Thursday to 40 months in federal prison. The Heath Ohio man pleaded guilty in April to two counts of mailing threatening communications one count of threats by interstate communications and two counts of stalking.
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