Sentenced with a straw after threatening an actress for 12 years

American actress Eva LaRue lived an actual nightmare for 12 years, when a person despatched her many significantly violent threatening letters.

After being arrested in 2019, the accused, James David Rogers, was sentenced final Thursday to 40 months in jail. He had beforehand pleaded responsible to threatening and harassing costs.

The story started in March 2007, when the actress obtained the primary of a number of dozen letters wherein the one who introduced himself as “Freddie Krueger”, promised that he would rape and kill her.

“There isn’t any place on the planet the place I can not discover you,” he wrote in one among his missives.

The person additionally wrote that he was going to do the identical to Eva LaRue’s younger daughter, who was solely 5 years outdated when the primary letters have been despatched. When the kid reached the age of 13, the person even began sending mail aimed instantly on the teenager.

“I am the person who stalked (your mom) for the previous seven years. Now I’ve turned my gaze to you,” reads a letter despatched in 2015.

“You look so fairly in your photographs on Google. Are you able to be the mom of my youngster?” the person wrote in one other letter.

He additionally began calling the woman’s college, claiming that he was her father and that he was coming to select her up.

Eva LaRue was terrified to the purpose the place she bought her Southern California house to maneuver together with her household to Italy for a number of months.

The actress finally returned to California the place she purchased a brand new house, however utilizing a enterprise identify, to guard her identification. But letters started to be delivered to her new deal with, regardless of the precautions she had taken.

For years, the FBI collected traces of DNA discovered on the letters, by no means having the ability to hyperlink them to anybody.

In 2019, investigators determined to make use of genetic family tree to attempt to uncover the identification of the person.

It was via this system that they managed to establish James David Roger, after which started to observe him. At some point, the person went to eat in a restaurant. The FBI noticed him eat his meal and throw his trash in a rubbish container.

Officers then recovered the suspect’s desk scraps; they extracted his DNA from the straw of his tender drink and in contrast it to that of the letters. Since there was a DNA match, the police have been in a position to arrest the person at his residence in November 2019.