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Law & Order Star Stalked by Singer/Songwriter

03292010erbe.jpg A singer/songwriter/stalker who for three years obsessed over Law & Order: Criminal Intent star Kathryn Erbe, sending letters to her Brooklyn home and showing up on set, has finally been arrested, reports the Post. Charles Nagel, who uses the stage name Chaz Rose to sing "romantic smooth" songs influenced by Michael Jackson and Johnny Mathis, wrote on his MySpace page—which is mostly devoted Criminal Intent and Erbe—that "melody feeds the soul."

At first, Erbe, who plays a detective in the Major Case Squad, tried to be cool about the "letters of adulation." But when he started sending "letters filled with his passionate prose and hopes of a permanent hookup to the homes of several of her relatives," she went to the police. Gathering email correspondence from the 36-year-old super-fan, detectives were soon able to nab Nagel in Philadelphia on stalking charges. He'll most likely be cut off from contact with the 44-year-old mother of two, and since she's leaving the show later this spring, he'll only be able to see her in syndication.

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  • So... are they going to make a Law & Order episode about it?

  • I liked her in "What About Bob"

  • borgbot

    His myspace page is deleted but Google cache is forever!

    chazrose myspace page

  • That's nuts, I was able to find it this morning, BUt, if you do a search for "Chaz" on this page, you'll see he's interested in where the show films...

    http://www.onlocationvacations.com/2008/07/28/72908-filming-locations/

  • jaycjay

    I suppose if I were arrested for something that was going to get widespread media attention, I might cancel my myspace account as soon as I could, too. Or maybe not, since my full name isn't even attached to it.

    Anyway, just for the sake of accuracy, the Google cache actually is not "forever." The page will be removed from there eventually after the page fails to be successfully spidered.

  • jles

    uhhh, this guy does realize that she ISN'T Becky Katsopolis right?

  • mellow_fellow

    Who?

  • jaycjay

    Yeah, probably. Otherwise his letters wouldn't have been delivered, and he wouldn't have found her family members.

  • jles

    just saying.....he probably should have stalked her far more attractive doppelganger.

    but, you sound fun.

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