It should have been a dream come true for Eva LaRue when she landed the role of MDPD Detective Natalia Boa Vista on CSI: Miami in 2006; instead, her newfound fame became a nightmare.

Speaking to People ahead of the upcoming Paramount+ docuseries My Nightmare Stalker: The Eva LaRue Story , premiering on Thursday (November 13), the 58-year-old actress recalled how shortly after joining the hit CBS drama, she started receiving disturbing letters from an anonymous fan.

The letters, which were signed “Freddie Krueger” after the Nightmare on Elm Street villain, included graphic threats of rape, torture, and murder, at first aimed at LaRue and then her daughter, Kaya Callahan, who was only five years old at the time the letters began.

“I am going to instill fear into every part of

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