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The Death of Rebecca Schaeffer. The Stalking Death that Changed the Law. In the late 1. 98. Rebecca Lucile Schaeffer was struggling to find her big break in show business. Born in 1. 96. 7, the only child of a psychologist and a writer, Rebecca was sleek, svelte and beautiful. A beauty that would land her on the cover of Seventeen magazine. She was at the beginning of a promising career as an actress when an unemployed Tucson, Ariz., fast- food worker, who had developed an obsession, struck her down in 1.
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Schaeffer couldn't even afford a phone when her agent tacked a note to her apartment door telling her to report to the set of My Sister Sam, her breakthrough role starring opposite Pam Dawber of Mork and Mindy fame. She moved from New York to California and rented an apartment in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles, in a Tudor style building at 1.
N. She lived a quiet life, alone. The show was a huge success, but Rebecca would never live to enjoy it. Robert John Bardo.
Robert John Bardo was the youngest of seven siblings, son of a former Air Force officer. He grew up in Tucson, Arizona, the object of much physical and mental abuse. According to one of his teachers, Bardo was . He was hospitalized two times because of .
In the fall of 1. My Sister Sam. In particular, Bardo began to be obsessed with the character . He built a shrine to her in his bedroom. An Obsessed Fan. Like millions of fans, Bardo started to write letters to her. Rebecca responded, writing that his letter was . On her letter, she drew a peace sign, a heart, and signed it: . Naturally, the guard didn't let him in.
Bardo returned a month later with a knife, but didn't gain entrance then either. In his diary, he wrote: . Later on, he saw her new film Class Struggle in Beverly Hills.
In the movie, Rebecca had a bed scene with a male actor which gravely upset Bardo. He couldn't envision his innocent young girl being an adult woman. To him, she had now become . He drew a diagram of her body and marked spots where he planned to shoot her. He asked his older brother, Edgar, to buy him a gun.
Bardo, 2. 1, bombarded Rebecca with swarms of love letters. He also collected videos of Rebecca's TV shows: Amazing Stories, My Sister Sam, One Life to Live. He bedecked his room with dozens of glossy publicity photos of the girl he lusted for. He even mailed an ominous- sounding letter to his sister in Tennessee, telling her if he couldn't have Rebecca, no one else would. He then hopped a Hollywood- bound bus in Tucson, hell- bent on tracking her down.
Find a Star's Address for $2. On July 1. 7, 1. 98. Bardo called Schaeffer's agent's office and tried to find out where she lived. Refused this information, he relentlessly roamed the streets, flashing her photo and asking passersby if they knew her address.
He needlessly paid a private detective $2. Needlessly because, for as little as $1, a person can go into any of California's DMV offices, fill out Form 7. Even if they lie, the information is delivered on the spot. Armed with this information, on July 1. Bardo, dressed in a yellow Polo shirt, rang Rebecca Schaeffer's doorbell.
The intercom wasn't working, so she came downstairs to the apartment building's front door where she saw Bardo, and basically ignored his attention. He left and grabbed a meal of onion rings and cheesecake at Jan's Restaurant at 8. Beverly Blvd. After about an hour, Bardo returned to the house and rang the bell again. Still in her housecoat, Schaeffer came to the front door, turned the handle and opened it.! No matter what, I thought that was a very callous thing to say to a fan, you know. He checked her pulse, but found none.
Her arms were akimbo and her feet were wedged between the door and its frame. Witnesses saw a young man in a yellow shirt jogging up the Hollywood block. He turned into an alley and disappeared.
Sirens screaming, Rebecca was rushed to Cedars- Sinai Medical Center. She lingered for 3. The next day, back in Tucson, several motorists called 9. Interstate 1. 0. It looked like he was trying to get hit.
He confessed immediately to Schaeffer's murder. Arizona police faxed his photo to LA, and witnesses confirm his identity. In court, he appeared dazed and confused. But a lot of things have appeared in the press to make me out to be a monster.
If I had one wish where if it was to ever come true it would be for Rebecca Schaeffer to be alive today. He was extradited to California. Bardo defense attorneys pleaded he had an unstable mental condition due to childhood abuse.
Bardo was tried and convicted by prosecutor Marcia Clark, who would later become most famous for her unsuccessful attempts to prosecute O. J. Simpson in the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend. Convicted of capital murder in a non- jury courtroom, Bardo was sentenced to life without parole by Superior Court Judge Dino Fulgoni on Dec. Eyes flashing like Satanic neons, Bardo told the judge. I do realize the magnitude of what I've done.
I don't think it needs to be compounded by a bunch of lies because she's an actress. The California law was passed in 1. The law was the first of its kind and later helped to convict Jonathan Norman, who was sentenced to 2. Steven Spielberg. According to the legislation, a stalker is defined as ! Dana Schaeffer, Rebecca's mother, to Bardo.
UPDATE: Looks like prison justice has worked again. Seems Bardo was introduced to the business end of a prison shank recently. Following is an AP report on the incident.
Notice Bardo is housed at the same facility where Charles Manson slurps soup (Mule Creek State Prison in California). SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The man convicted of stalking and killing actress Rebecca Schaeffer in 1. Robert John Bardo, 3.
Friday at Mule Creek State Prison in Amador County, authorities said. He was treated at University of California, Davis, Medical Center and returned to the prison, officials said. Chris Weathersbee. The slaying of Rebecca Schaeffer, a former teenage model who co- starred in the 1.
My Sister Sam, helped prompt anti- stalking laws. She was shot when she answered the door of her home in Los Angeles. According to trial testimony, Bardo, then 1. Rebecca Schaeffer, and sent her letters and tried to visit her. He obtained her address through a private detective, who got it from the state Department of Motor Vehicles. Bardo was housed in a maximum- security unit for inmates with sensitive needs, including former gang members, notorious prisoners and those convicted of sex crimes. State Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials said he was stabbed in the prison yard while inmates were on their way to breakfast.
Two inmate- made weapons were found at the scene. The suspect in the attack was identified as a man serving an 8. UPDATE: The following was culled from the Death of Anissa Jones Discussion Forum attached to this site. It is a personal account posted by a visitor so take that into account, but there's little reason to not believe in its validity. Bardo got irate and said he wanted to fill out another copy, the salesman sought out help and Jerome Larochelle who also worked at Jensen's, told the guy absolutely no way and he told Bardo he could not own a firearm and to . His brother would have known that because it asks you that question on the form and warns that such 'straw man' purchases are a violation of Federal Law!)Bardo then used the revolver to fatally shoot Rebecca Schaeffer on July 1. When Marsha Clark was prosecuting Bardo, the Jensen's people contacted her office and vehemently argued the point that these two went out of their way to break the law and scam a firearm for Bardo, and his demeanor, pointing to First Degree Premeditated Murder and accessory to First Degree Murder!
Their voices fell on deaf ears and John Bardo got life, his brother was not charged. Sweetzer where Rebecca Schaeffer was living at the time of her death.
Lone wolf (terrorism) - Wikipedia. A lone wolf or lone- wolf terrorist is someone who prepares and commits violent acts alone, outside of any command structure and without material assistance from any group. However, he or she may be influenced or motivated by the ideology and beliefs of an external group, and may act in support of such a group.
Origins of the term. Metzger advocated individual or small- cell underground activity, as opposed to above- ground membership organizations, envisaging . According to Jenkins, most individuals involved in such attacks . The FBI and San Diego Police's investigation into Curtis' activities was named Operation Lone Wolf.
The lone wolf's tactics and methods are conceived and directed solely on their own; in many cases, such as the tactics described by Curtis, the lone wolf never has personal contact with the group they identify with. As such, it is considerably more difficult for counter- terrorism officials to gather intelligence on lone wolves, since they may not come into contact with routine counter- terrorist surveillance. According to the Christian Science Monitor, . Anti- abortion militant terrorist group The Army of God uses .
He declared that he was the leader of the White Wolves organisation, which proved to be a figment of his imagination. Police believe he was acting alone.
Less than two weeks later, on August 1. Asher Weisgan, a 4. Israeli bus- driver, shot and killed four Palestinians and injured two others in the West Bank settlement of Shiloh. On September 4, 2. Nabil Ahmad Jaoura, a Jordanian of Palestinian origin, opened fire on tourists at the Roman Amphitheatre in Amman, Jordan. One British tourist died and six others, including five tourists, were injured.
Police said he was not connected with any organized group but was angered by Western and Israeli actions in the Middle East. His family denied he was a member of any militant group, and described him as intensely religious.
He killed three Israelis and injured dozens more before being shot to death. He was not a member of any militant group.
Social media incitement is seen as the cause for many of these attacks. During late 1. 99. Sweden, right- wing Swiss- German immigrant John Ausonius shot eleven dark- skinned people, killing one. In February 1. 99. RUC Constable Allen Moore shot three Catholic men dead with a shotgun in the Belfast. Sinn F. Moore committed suicide shortly afterwards before arrest. He killed four people and injured 1.
In April 1. 99. 9 in London, David Copeland targeted blacks, Asians and gays with nail bombs, killing three and injuring 1. His aim was to start a race war. He was sentenced to at least 5. He told police he targeted people of different skin color. German authorities suspected that this was an Islamist attack. First, he killed eight people with a heavy car- bomb placed in the heart of the Norwegian government headquarters in Oslo. An hour later, he appeared at the summer camp of the Worker's Youth League, the youth organization of the Labour Party, at the island of Ut.
He shot for approximately 9. In 2. 01. 2, French Islamist Mohammed Merah killed seven people in the city of Toulouse. He was eventually killed after a 3. On May 2. 6, 2. 01. La D. Cordier was hospitalized but officials said his throat wound was not life- threatening. The man, named as Alexandre Dhaussy, was a convert to Islam. On December 2. 0, 2.
Jou. He managed to injure three police before he was shot dead. United States. He reportedly got angry watching news reports of attacks on Muslims and stated his motive was that he was . David Gunn in Pensacola, Florida, shooting him three times in the back. Reportedly he yelled, . Martin Sullivan, claiming that he wanted to warn the world about the coming extinction of Aryans. John Britton and his bodyguard James Barrett were killed by American anti- abortion extremist Paul Jennings Hill with a shotgun blast to their heads. Barrett's wife June, a retired nurse, was injured in the attack.
Hill was sentenced to death by lethal injection and was executed on September 3, 2. Harper through the chest in the kitchen of his Mc. Donald County, Missouri home. Colonel Fred Mills, chief of the Missouri Highway Patrol, later says he believes Harper is shot in retaliation for an incident three months earlier, when Harper and other officers arrested Robert N. Coombs was never caught. Salvi III carried out fatal shootings at two Planned Parenthood reproductive health clinics in Brookline, Massachusetts, killing two and wounding five.
Mc. Veigh was convicted and executed for the April 1. Oklahoma City bombing, which killed 1. Though Mc. Veigh conceived of, planned and carried out the bombing, he did not act totally alone.
Terry Nichols was convicted of conspiring with him, though his involvement was limited to helping mix the fertilizer and other bomb ingredients; Mc. Veigh had threatened to harm him and his family if he did not help. Between 1. 97. 8 and 1. Theodore Kaczynski, known as the . He threatened to continue the bombings unless his anti- industrial manifesto was published by the New York Times, which acquiesced. On October 9, 1. 99. Palo Verde, Arizona, causing the Sunset Limited train to derail, killing Mitchell Bates, a sleeping car attendant, and injuring 7.
Four identical notes signed . His targets included abortion clinics, gay nightclubs, and the 1. Olympics in Atlanta. We are going to kill all of you. From the Army of God, Virginia Dare Chapter. He was sentenced to 1.
The second blast is apparently designed to injure or kill responders such as firemen, paramedics, and others responding to the first blast. Seven people are injured in the blasts. Drega then stole one of the officers' Police Car, drove to the office of Colebrook, New Hampshire District Court judge Vickie Bunnell, shooting her in the back when she tried to flee, then shot & killed Dennis Joos, editor of the local Colebrook News and Sentinel, as he attempted to disarm Drega after Bunnell fell.
Drega then returned to his property and set his house on fire, and wounded three other law enforcement officers before being shot to death in a firefight with police. The bombs were part of a series of bank robberies Vanbiber was carrying out to help fund the National Alliance. Smith also shot at but missed another nine people. On Sunday, July 4, while fleeing the police in a high- speed chase on a southern Illinois highway, Smith shot himself twice in the head and crashed his automobile into a metal post. He then shot himself again, in the heart, this time fatally.
He was later pronounced dead at the hospital. Barnett Slepian as Dr. Slepian made his son soup in their kitchen after attending his father's funeral. The FBI notes that Dr.
Slepian's assassination bears much similarity to shootings in the Rochester, New York area, and three Canadian cities during the fall of 1. Kopp has been charged by Canadian authorities in the 1.
Ontario, Canada doctor, Hugh Short, one of a string of Remembrance Day Shootings. Powell then waited, for Stacie's 1.
Kristie Reed, to come home from school. When she did, Powell raped her, slashed her throat, stabbed her, and left her for dead. Kristie survived the attack and was able to testify against Powell.
Petersburg, Florida, killing 6- year- old Ashley Mance and the wounding of her twin sister Aleesha and younger half- sister Jailene Jones. Authorities believe that Cook killed the officer in ambush because of his hatred of law enforcement.
Furrow, Jr., a member of the white supremacist group Aryan Nations, attacked a Jewishdaycare in Los Angeles, injuring five, and subsequently shot dead a Filipino Americanmail carrier. On April 2. 8, 2. Richard Scott Baumhammers began a racially motivated crime spree in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania which left five individuals dead and one paralyzed. Baumhammers was pulled over in his Jeep and arrested at 3: 3. EST in the town of Ambridge, Pennsylvania.
Baumhammers' spree lasted two hours and ran a 1. According to an acquaintance's testimony, after Uthman set fire to the Temple, he yelled . Helder sent a manifesto to The Badger Herald of the University of Wisconsin.
Press accounts said that he . After his arrest, Adkisson said that he was motivated by hatred of Democrats, liberals, African Americans and homosexuals. Two other Special Police Officers stationed with Officer Johns, Harry Weeks and Jason .
While awaiting trial, von Brunn died on January 6, 2. One person other than Stack died; 1. On March 4, 2. 01. John Patrick Bedell, a self- proclaimed Libertarian and 9/1. Pentagon police officers at a security checkpoint in the Pentagon Station of the Washington Metro rapid transit system in Arlington County, Virginia, just outside Washington, D. C. The officers returned fire, striking him in the head. He died a few hours later, on the next day, March 5, 2.
On May 1. 0, 2. 01. Sandlin Matthew Smith set off a pipe bomb at the rear entrance of the Islamic Center of Northeast Florida. No one is injured in the attack, but authorities found remnants of the pipe bomb at the scene, and shrapnel from the blast was found a hundred yards away. FBI agents later learned Smith was staying in a tent in Glass Mountain State Park in northwest Oklahoma. When approached by federal and state law enforcement officers Smith drew a firearm, and was fatally shot.
After being approached by the officer, Williams or the officer began firing with a handgun. As additional CHP officers arrived on scene Williams started firing an M1. A . 3. 08 rifle, and the CHP returned fire, firing a collective 1. Williams multiple times in the arms & legs. Oakland police confirmed at Williams. Investigators reported Williams told them he wanted to .
Sharp set fire to the truck, which contained spare ammunition, and attempted to set fire to the trailer, which was believed to contain an improvised explosive device. Sharp then opened fire on the building's offices and windows, on employees who were outside, and on first responders with multiple firearms.