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Judgment of The Hollywood Stalker

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4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Sitcom star Rebecca Shaeffer was talented, pretty, and had her whole life ahead of her when she unknowingly opened the door of her Hollywood apartment to her killer; Robert Bardo. Bardo’s lawyers claim his mental illness caused him to snap, but will the evidence prove otherwise? This week’s Court TV Podcast answers those questions with an audio edition of the original series Judgment with Ashleigh Banfield. This is Judgment of the Hollywood Stalker.

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0:00.0

The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are simply that opinions all are presumed innocent until proven otherwise in a court of law

0:09.7

Sensitive topics are discussed. Discretion is advised.

0:16.8

Hi, I'm Vinny Politan and welcome to the Court TV

0:19.1

podcast.

0:20.1

This week's episode features an audio edition of our original series

0:23.8

Judgment with Ashley Banfield, where we'll take a closer look at a landmark case

0:28.6

that led to one of the first anti-stalking laws,

0:31.8

the 1989 murder of sitcom star Rebecca Schaefer and the subsequent

0:38.0

trial of her stalker John Bardo, featuring interviews with Schaefer's talent agent Sue Cameron, retired

0:44.8

LAPD detective David Escato and forensic psychiatrist Park Deets.

0:49.9

This is judgment of the Hollywood stalker. This is the judgment of the Hollywood stalker.

0:53.2

This is the court TV podcast. I can fantasize about violence, but then it's kind of different to actually do with violence.

1:06.0

I guess there's this thing called Moment of Truth,

1:08.0

and I'm more vulnerable to someone as well.

1:11.0

How the fan is, you know?

1:13.0

This.

1:15.0

She's just a strange

1:20.0

screaming, she's just a strange

1:21.0

why? Why? Why? It was a crime that caught Hollywood off guard sending shock waves throughout the country.

1:40.0

On July 18th, 1989, an up-and-coming actress was shot point blank at the front door of her apartment

1:47.1

building. Her killer was captured the next day, and his trial was almost as frightening as the crime itself, revealing the many ways the murderer stalked his young victim and all the people who knew he was doing it.

2:01.0

A Hollywood murder will always capture the imagination of Americans.

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