Charles Nagel, Law & Order: Criminal Intent's Kathryn Erbe's #1 superfan/creepy stalker, was given five years probation after claiming he was raped in jail. more ›

It took jurors less than five hours long to find "superfan" Charles Nagel guilty of stalking Law and Order: Criminal Intent star Kathryn Erbe. He was found guilty of stalking her over the mail and on the internet, but not guilty of interstate stalking. Nagel probably didn't help his case when he spent five hours on the witness stand earlier this week, pontificating over the nature of his love for Erbe, blaming one of his daughters (who are both named after Batman characters) for doctoring a Facebook photo of Erbe's daughter, and sharing his sexual fantasies involving McDonald's cheeseburgers. more ›

We thought the whole stalking saga of Law & Order: Criminal Intent star Kathryn Erbe was an open and shut creepy-dude-on-the-internet-is-obsessed-with-mid-level-TV-actress case. But the testimony yesterday by superfan Charles Nagel has opened our eyes. See, Nagel was "Internet friends" with Erbe via MySpace, and the two had been trading friendly messages. So you can understand how upset he was when he found out that the account was being run by a teenage imposter! more ›

Opening statements were made in the trial of "misunderstood fan" Charles Nagel, who is accused of stalking Law & Order: Criminal Intent actress Kathryn Erbe in person, online, and in his blogging heart. Prosecutors read damning excerpts from Nagel's blog about Erbe, including some winning one-liners such as, "I want to look in her eyes and make love," "Obsession is only around the corner from love, but it is not a bad thing," "Kathryn is everything and everything is Kathryn," and "She's pretending she's better and the shower of love will never stop coming." more ›

The man who was accused of stalking Law and Order: Criminal Intent star Kathryn Erbe earlier this year was charged with interstate stalking by federal prosecutors yesterday. Charles Nagel, 36, of Philadelphia, was arrested on state misdemeanor charges in March after he had accosted the actress on the Law and Order set several times over the past two years. Maybe he was just trying to amuse her? more ›

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." more ›

1. The Democrats officially have control of the Senate - Virginia Senator George Allen conceded
2. Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a watermain break in the Bronx, an overturned ambulance in Brooklyn, and a shooting in Harlem.
3. James Madison H.S. in Brooklyn has produced three current U.S. Senators. Now if they could only do something about all the metal-detectors.
4. Adrienne Shelly's killer is at Bellevue, undergoing psychiatric evaluations
5. City officials are saying the intersection of Flatbush Avenue and Glenwood Road isn't dangerous, even after the SUV crash that killed a 5 year old -- but Streetsblog checked, and "the intersection within the 99th percentile for most dangerous signalized intersections in New York City."
6. Why is the Empire State Building red tonight? To support #15 Rutgers' football which is playing #3 Louisville tonight (ESPN, 7:30PM)
7. The Rockefeller Christmas Tree will be arriving from Connecticut tomorrow!
8. It was a record night at Christie's for the Impressionist and modern art auction - but they ended up pulling the disputed Picasso!
9. How many construction sites in Greenpoint does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?
10. And set your Tivos! Tomorrow night is Celebrity Jeopardy with Law & Order's Sam Waterston, Law & Order: Criminal Intent's Kathryn Erbe, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit's Christopher Meloni! CHUNG CHUNG!

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It's our version of the circus coming to town: Law & Order: Criminal Intent filmed near our work this past week. What they would need to do at some undisclosed Midtown location is beyond us, though we were able to find out that the episode will be called (at this point) "Mislabeled" and that it will air on February 22. Gothamist was most interested in the trailers, whose inhabitants' identities were purposefully deceptive. One trailer had a sticker for "Goren" and the other for "Eames." more ›