1. Rebecca Schaeffer
I had a couple of crazy murderous fan stories to choose from, but Rebecca Schaeffer’s is at the top of this list because I don’t think many people remember her. Schaeffer was a small town girl from Oregon, who moved to the Big Apple with starry eyes before she was even 20-years-old. She started out modeling and eventually landed a leading role in the sitcom My Sister Sam, which only lasted a season and a half, but was still a top 25 show when it originally aired.
Enter Robert John Bardo, Tucson, Arizona native, Jack in the Box janitor, and overall psychopath. Bardo had been on the lookout for a new young lady to stalk ever since the last apple of his eye, peace activist, Samantha Smith, died in a plane crash in 1985. Bardo turned his sights on Schaeffer in 1986, wrote her heaps of fan mail, and went to great lengths to meet her. He even showed up to the set of My Sister Sam, only to be turned away by security, but never the one to let the man get him down, Bardo returned a month later only this time with a knife, but alas was sent packing yet again. Third time’s a charm, however, and after seeing Schaeffer appear in bed with a man in Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills, Bardo hired a private investigator to find Schaeffer’s home address, and on the night of July 18, 1989, he was able to meet her face to face at her doorstep. Their first encounter at her apartment was brief, she signed an autograph for him and asked him to buzz off, but that only angered Bardo enough to come back a few minutes later and when Schaeffer answered the door Bardo fired a Ruger GP100 .357-caliber handgun through her chest at point-blank range and took off running. Bardo died thirty minutes after arriving at the hospital and Bardo was found scrambling on the I-10 on foot. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Sources: latimes, biography
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