#247: Rebecca Schaeffer: The Case For Stalking Law

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, Documentary

4.2 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Laura Richards, Jim Clemente and Lisa Zambetti talk with Brad Silberling, Rebecca Schaeffer's fiancé, about Rebecca to mark National Stalking Awareness Week in the UK.

Rebecca was stalked and murdered in 1989 by a fixated and obsessed "fan" (who we are intentionally not naming). He hired a private investigator to find out where she lived. He turned up, rang the bell, and when Rebecca answered, he shot her in the chest at point blank range.

Brad had spoken to her on the phone just minutes before and wished her luck as she was going to audition later that day for a part in The Godfather Part III.

Rebecca's case led to the first stalking law in the world.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Real Crime Profile ad-free on Amazon Music.
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0:07.0	It's tonight to new reporting about that stalking tragedy that stunned America and led to sweeping
0:12.0	new laws in this country.
0:13.8	Actress Rebecca Schaefer, a rising star at the time, was shot and killed by an obsessed
0:17.6	fan at her front door.
0:24.6	My friend lived in the apartment, adjoining the foyer, and heard Rebecca sobbing after
0:39.6	she was shot.
0:41.6	Saying, why me?
0:43.6	Why me?
0:44.6	She didn't know if it was safe to go out there, if the guy was still there, but she did
0:49.4	anyway and found Rebecca on the floor and stayed with her and the ambulance came and I
0:54.8	Rebecca died 30 minutes later.
1:00.1	This was such an extraordinary, ugly, horrible loss of an angel.
1:07.6	The LAPD has a murder on their heads.
1:10.6	Her neighbors have said they saw a man wearing a yellow shirt fleeing from the scene.
1:17.6	Hello and welcome to Real Crime Profile.
1:19.6	This is Jim Clemente, retired FBI profiler, former New York City prosecutor and writer-producer
1:23.6	C.V.S. is Criminal Minds.
1:24.6	And with me today is...
1:26.6	Laura Richards, Criminal Behavioral Analyst, former New Scotland Yard and Founder of Paladin
1:30.8	National Stalking Advocacy Service.
	...

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