Rebecca Schaeffer is an American actress and model; her murder case is led to the first anti-stalking law in California. She was killed by an obsessed fan named Robert John Bardo at the doorstep of her apartment in Hollywood west on 18 July 1989. She begins modelling in her early teen days and got her to break the role of Patti on the sitcom My Sister Sam which aired between 1986 and 1988 with 44 episodes. This role makes her a household name and gained immense popularity too. Rebecca was also known for movies like ‘Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills, ‘Radio Days’, ‘Out of Time’ etc.

Biography / Wikipedia of Rebecca Schaeffer

Rebecca Schaeffer was the only child of her parents and was born on 6th November 1967, in Eugene, Oregon in the USA. Later, she was brought up in Portland. She attended Lincoln High School and then went to high school. She developed the interest to become a Rabbi but later moved to become a model. Rebecca has a height of around 5 feet and 7 inches and has the zodiac sign of Scorpio.

Rebecca started working in television commercials, departmental store catalogues and short roles in television films.  To pursue more work in the field of modelling she moved to New York City in August 1984.

Parents of Rebecca Schaeffer

Rebecca was the daughter of her mother Danna, she is a writer and instructor at Portland community college and her father name was Dr Benson Schaeffer, who was a child psychologist. She was raised in the Jewish Religion.

Rebecca Schaeffer’s Full Case , Cause of Death: Murder Detailed in Autopsy

Rebecca was shot by a handgun directly on the chest at the doorstep of her apartment by a 19-year-old obsessed stalking man named  Robert John Bardo in West Hollywood. Robert had been stalking Rebecca for the past three years, he also writes letters to her and from which she replied to him as an answer. Robert tries to meet Schaeffer two times before, firstly he tries to meet her when she was shooting for My Sister Sam with Warner Bros. that time he was turned away by security guards. After that a month later he came back to meet her with a knife but was again turned away by security guards. Then he contacts a detective agency in Tucson with a fee of some $250 to find out Rebecca’s home address in California’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) records.

Rebecca Schaeffer’s Murderer

After that, Robert travelled to Los Angeles to confirmed the address and he asked in the neighbourhood that she lived here. On murderer day Rebecca is waiting for her script to be delivered to her for an audition for The Godfather Part III and Robert rang the bell, she opened the door to think of script. Then, she talks with Robert and signed an autograph for him too and told him not to come anymore. But he returned at the door of Rebecca after an hour and shot with a handgun on his chest at the doorway. She was rushed to the emergency room of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and after 30 minutes she was announced dead.

Robert Bardo was run away at that moment but was arrested the next day. He confessed his crime and was sentenced to life imprisonment on the parole. After the death of Rebecca Schaeffer leads to the introduction of the first anti-stalking law in California in 1990, including California Penal Code 646.9.

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