Eva LaRue’s Stalking Nightmare Adaptations Scripted and Unscripted Series – Deadline

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exclusive: Eva LaRueWho plays DNA analyst Natalia Boavista CSI: Miami and maria santos in the soap opera all my childrenis turning her own experience of being stalked into a pair of TV projects.

LaRue and her family, including daughter Kaya Callahan, were stalked for 12 years by James David Rogers, who was jailed for just over three years as punishment for his crimes last year.

She now works with Toronto-based producer Forté Entertainment on scripted and unscripted projects. my nightmare stalker Will include a scripted series, premium documentary series and a returning factual spinoff.

In more than three dozen graphic letters and countless voicemails, Rogers threatens Eva and Kaya, who were five years old when the stalking began and are now 21, relentlessly over the years, with letters addressed directly to Kaya, who at the time She is 13 years old. Prosecutors, in a sentencing memo, called his harassment a “campaign of torture” in which he “terrorized a mother and her daughter.”He signed many of his letters Freddie Krueger, from On Elm Street.

He was captured thanks to groundbreaking forensic genetic genealogy, which matches people using DNA databases. The technique was pioneered by former FBI agents Steve Busch and Steve Kramer, who first used this DNA technique to solve the legendary Golden State Killer case. LaRue’s case is only the second investigation they have conducted using the program.

Forté acquired the rights to the stories and is now securing the script and documentary teams to bring both projects to life.The company has produced series including Disney+ Task and Super Channel’s how did i get here.

“I am thrilled to be working with Forté’s talented team to bring my story to the silver screen while also raising public awareness of better protections for women and men from stalking and intimate partner violence,” said LaRue.

“What Eva and her daughter have gone through is unimaginable, and we are honored to share their amazing story with audiences around the world,” said Andrea and Mitch Gabriel of Forté Entertainment. “Not only has this case, ripped from the headlines, recently been ruled, but the fact that millions of victims continue to be affected by stalking every year certainly makes this story very timely,”

Forté Entertainment is represented in the US by Hayden Meyer of APA.