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Aug 21, 2021 · Rebecca Schaeffer./Robert John Bardo. Robert John Bardo is serving a life sentence today in the murder of actress Rebecca Schaeffer. He was 19 years old and an obsessed fan of the actress when he ...
- Alyssa Choiniere
May 8, 2024 · On the tape, Robert Bardo was in a room at Men’s Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles, telling his defense-appointed psychiatrist how he had stalked and killed 21-year-old actress Rebecca Schaeffer.
- christopher.goffard@latimes.com
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CA v. BARDO (1991) Robert John Bardo, an obsessed fan, is charged with the fatal 1989 shooting of young actress Rebecca Schaeffer. The defense claims Bardo’s mental illness is to blame for his actions. Bardo is facing a trial by judge after prosecutors agreed not to pursue the death penalty. Rebecca Schaeffer’s murder ultimately led to the ...
As he listened in court to his account of the shooting, Bardo hung his head and pressed his clenched fists over his ears. At the time of Schaeffer’s July, 1989, murder in the doorway of her ...
Oct 10, 2023 · When Rebecca Schaeffer was murdered in 1989, it set the wheels in motion for the nation's first anti-stalking laws. A rising '80s actress who seemed beloved by everyone, few could understand why anyone would murder her, seemingly in cold blood. Schaeffer was 21-years-old when she was waiting for the script of a movie she had an audition for ...
- Marina Manoukian
Apr 12, 2019 · The 21-year-old actress answered a knock at her West Hollywood home on July 18, 1989. A 19-year-old fan named Robert John Bardo, who had hired a private investigator to find Schaeffer's address ...
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Jul 21, 2024 · But when the bell rang at 10:15 a.m., Schaeffer went to answer the door and was fatally shot by 19-year-old Robert John Bardo. He had been obsessed with the actress for three years and had paid a ...