Rebecca Schaeffer

...Madonna and Brad Pitt who have been tracked by obsessed fans. One famous -- and tragic -- case involved "My Sister Sam" star Rebecca Schaeffer, who in 1989 was murdered by her stalker after he used the Department of Motor Vehicles to track...

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...had the title role in a TV series, playing Samantha Russell in the CBS sitcom My Sister Sam, co-starring Rebecca Schaeffer. She was devastated when Schaeffer was shot and killed by an obsessed fan in front of her apartment in 1989.

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...played a San Francisco photographer whose life is disrupted when her teenage sister, played by Rebecca Schaeffer, comes to live with her. The series' original title, prior to the premiere, was Taking the Town (in reference to Sam Russell's...

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...Woronov and Robert Beltran. Scenes also stars Jacqueline Bisset, Ray Sharkey, Ed Begley, Jr., Wallace Shawn and Paul Mazursky. Rebecca Schaeffer appeared in her first major feature film role in what many critics considered to be a...

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...of Motor Vehicles (DMV) records. Bardo's brother helped him get a handgun because he was underage (Bardo was then 19). Rebecca Schaeffer on the TV series, My Sister Sam. Bardo then traveled to Los Angeles for a third time and,...

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...shot dead by police. Walter F. Mondale won the Democratic presidential nomination in San Francisco. In 1989, actress Rebecca Schaeffer, 21, was shot to death at her Los Angeles home by obsessed fan Robert Bardo, who was later sentenced...

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...to America's hunger for celebrity scandal after the O.J. Simpson trial, debuting in 1996 with the stalking-murder of actress Rebecca Schaeffer. Ratings were through the roof, and 13 years later executive producer Betsy Rott is still at...

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...back for Gibson - she was named on murderer Robert Bardo's fan list. Stalker Bardo shot actress Rebecca Schaeffer at her Los Angeles home, when she opened the door to him in 1989. Gibson recalls, "I was very young at the time, but it...

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The obsessed fan who murdered television actress Rebecca Schaeffer in 1989 has been stabbed repeatedly by a fellow inmate at a California prison, the Los Angeles Times reported on Saturday. Robert John Bardo, 37,...

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SAN FRANCISCO -- The man convicted of stalking and killing actress Rebecca Schaeffer in 1989 was stabbed repeatedly by another inmate in the prison where he is serving a life sentence, corrections officials said. Robert John Bardo, 37,...

In this article: Robert John Bardo, Rehabilitation, University of California, Davis, My Sister Sam, and Amador County