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Hollywood Crime Scene

Episode 49 - Rebecca Schaeffer

Hollywood Crime Scene

Rachel Fisher

True Crime, Comedy

4.74.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In 1989 rising star, Rebecca Schaeffer was stalked and murdered by an obsessed fan. 

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Okay. Yeah. I'm cutting all of this out. You are. Yeah. Hi, welcome to Hollywood crime scene take two.

0:08.4

Hey, hi.

0:10.7

Should I start with Patreon? Yeah, let's go with Patreon. Okay.

0:15.2

If you'd like to donate to our Patreon page, it's patreon.com slash Hollywood crime scene there. You will get access to all of our bonus content. We just uploaded one.

0:25.3

Yesterday, so there's a fresh one there for you guys. And this week we had some new contributors. Thank you guys very much. We had

0:35.9

Kelly, Emily, Sarah, Renee, Susie, Jen, Cassile, Gina, Vanessa, Sophia, Portia,

0:52.4

Kaitlyn, Isabelle, Olivia, Heather, Wendy, Nene, and Tito. Thanks guys. Thank you guys so much.

1:05.4

And what did we have another contributor? We did. Somebody sent us money on PayPal, which was so unexpected and sweet to get that. Daniel. Thank you so much. Daniel.

1:14.5

Thank you, Daniel. Really sweet of you. So you can donate to us a one time thing if you don't want to sign up for Patreon. Right.

1:20.4

And that's just their email address on PayPal. Right. Right.

1:25.4

Yay. And then I think our poll has ended. Our poll has ended. Did we have a winner? Drumroll, please. Can you do a drumroll? No.

1:35.3

Phil Specter. Okay, cool. So that's our next week, our anniversary episode that you guys picked. Right.

1:42.8

Sorry to all the people who lost. But all of those stories will be covered at some point. At some point, I'm sure we'll do.

1:49.7

We'll do. We'll do. We're about it. Okay, should we get to this week? Yes.

1:53.7

Well, it's sort of related to our poll because initially we had like a thread of people suggesting episodes that will probably all be done. Also, we kind of made note of them all. So don't fear.

2:04.8

And one of our listeners on our page, her name is jet.

2:10.0

Oh yeah. Of course. I know. Jets. She suggested somebody named Rebecca Schaefer.

2:15.3

And she mentioned that July 18th was the anniversary of her murder, which is this week coming up. I think it will be the 29th anniversary. So not like an exactly exciting.

2:26.7

It's not like a 30. But still, you know, me, I like those anniversary dates. Right. So that's what we're going to talk about today. Okay.

2:35.6

If you don't know who Rebecca Schaefer is, she was a young actress who was fatally shot in the doorway of her West Hollywood apartment on July 18th,

2:44.5

1989 by a man named Robert John Bardow. And Bardow was obsessed with her and had been stalking her for three years at that point.

2:54.4

The crime was a major new story all over the country. Obviously, even though she wasn't super famous, she was definitely like an up and commer.

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