Rebecca Schaeffer: The Slaying of a Starlet
Crimes of the Centuries
Amber Hunt and Audioboom
4.7 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
As actress Rebecca Schaeffer rushed around her apartment to ready for the biggest audition of her career, a disturbed young man was pacing the street below, armed with a gun. Schaeffer's senseless death in 1989 would not only shock the nation, but it would also be the catalyst for the country's first anti-stalking laws.
"Crimes of the Centuries" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab exploring forgotten crimes from times past that made a mark and helped change history.
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| 0:00.0 | He sat there doing all this financial mumbling, working out, is everything gonna be okay? |
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| 0:24.1 | Hey listeners, we're taking a break for the Memorial Day holiday this week, |
| 0:27.8 | but we'll be back next week with an all new episode of Crimes of the Centuries. |
| 0:31.8 | While we're away, here's a look back at one of our episodes from season one that you may not have |
| 0:36.3 | heard yet. Rebecca Schaefer, the slaying of a starlet. Enjoy the holiday and we'll see you next week. |
| 0:41.9 | Some Crimes are so heartbreaking or shocking that they earn the label crime of the century, |
| 1:00.0 | but the stories that made headlines and decades passed aren't necessarily remembered today. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm Amber Hunt, a journalist and author, and in each episode of this show, I'll examine a case |
| 1:14.8 | that's maybe lesser known today, but was huge when it happened. This is Crimes of the Centuries. |
| 1:36.3 | Rebecca Schaefer had been waiting for a break like this for years, as she rushed around her |
| 1:42.2 | Los Angeles apartment picking up the right clothes and deciding how to style her mean of |
| 1:47.5 | household brunette hair. She tried to keep her nerves in check. Francis Ford Coppola. |
| 1:55.1 | She was just hours away from auditioning for a role in a friggin Francis Ford Coppola movie. |
| 2:01.6 | How cool was that? When the doorbell rang, her muscle memory might have triggered her to try |
| 2:06.7 | for the intercom and ask who it was, but the intercom was busted. Besides, she was expecting someone |
| 2:13.0 | at any minute. I mean, really, they should have been here by now. A courier was headed to her |
| 2:18.0 | place with the audition script she needed, and she couldn't leave for the audition without the |
| 2:22.3 | audition script. So she hopped downstairs and opened the door. After the gunmen's bullet entered |
| 2:31.3 | her chest and she found herself split on the floor of her entryway, Rebecca let out a blood |
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