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. Even if they lie, the information is delivered on the spot.Īrmed with this information, on July 18 1989, Bardo, dressed in a yellow Polo shirt, rang Rebecca Schaeffer's doorbell. Needlessly because, for as little as $1, a person can go into any of California's DMV offices, fill out Form 70 stating who they are, what person they want information on, the reason, and how they intend to use it. He needlessly paid a private detective $250 to find her. Refused this information, he relentlessly roamed the streets, flashing her photo and asking passersby if they knew her address. On July 17, 1989, Bardo called Schaeffer's agent's office and tried to find out where she lived. He then hopped a Hollywood-bound bus in Tucson, hell-bent on tracking her down. 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 bedecked his room with dozens of glossy publicity photos of the girl he lusted for.
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He also collected videos of Rebecca's TV shows: Amazing Stories, My Sister Sam, One Life to Live. He asked his older brother, Edgar, to buy him a gun.īardo, 21, bombarded Rebecca with swarms of love letters. He drew a diagram of her body and marked spots where he planned to shoot her. To him, she had now become "one more of the bitches of Hollywood." Bardo decided Rebecca had to be punished for her immorality. He couldn't envision his innocent young girl being an adult woman. In the movie, Rebecca had a bed scene with a male actor which gravely upset Bardo. Later on, he saw her new film Class Struggle in Beverly Hills. Bardo returned a month later with a knife, but didn't gain entrance then either. In June 1987, Bardo arrived at the Burbank Studio gates where My Sister Sam was produced, carrying a teddy bear and a bouquet of roses for Rebecca. On her letter, she drew a peace sign, a heart, and signed it: "With love from Rebecca." The day Bardo received the letter he wrote in his diary: When I think of her, I would like to become famous to impress her. Rebecca responded, writing that his letter was "the most beautiful" that she had ever received. Like millions of fans, Bardo started to write letters to her. In particular, Bardo began to be obsessed with the character "Patti," played by Rebecca Schaeffer. In the fall of 1986, he became a fan of My Sister Sam. He was hospitalized two times because of "severe emotional damages."Īt 16, while working as a janitor for a fast food restaurant, Bardo found a better reality in television. The authorities found him and returned him to Tucson.īardo became a good student, but wrote his teachers threatening letters. He grew up in Tucson, Arizona, the object of much physical and mental abuse.Īccording to one of his teachers, Bardo was "a time bomb on the verge of exploding." When he was 13, Bardo took a bus to Maine in search of Samantha Smith, the child that became famous for sending a letter to Mikhail Gorbachov. Robert John Bardo was the youngest of seven siblings, son of a former Air Force officer. The show was a success, but Rebecca would never live to enjoy it. She moved from New York to California and rented an apartment in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles, in a Tudor style building at 120 N.
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 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 1989. A beauty that would land her on the cover of Seventeen magazine. Born in 1967, the only child of a psychologist and a writer, Rebecca was sleek, svelte and beautiful. In the late 1980s, a young actress named Rebecca Lucile Schaeffer was struggling to find her big break in show business.
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