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Robert the Celebrity Stalker

10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories

Joe Kuner

Entertainment News, True Crime, Documentary, News, Society & Culture

4.8614 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

When Robert John Bardo first saw actress Rebecca Schaeffer, he knew that he would do anything to be able to meet her.

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0:00.0

Discretion is advice.

0:10.0

This is a minute burn.

0:21.6

In 1970,

0:22.6

In 1970, Robert, was born to an American father and a Korean mother.

0:43.6

And as the youngest sibling of seven, his childhood was a bit chaotic.

0:48.7

Robert's dad was in the U.S. Air Force, causing that large family to move states several times

0:54.0

before finally settling down

0:55.9

in Arizona when Robert was in his early teens. The frequent moves weren't the only unstable

1:01.8

aspect of Robert's childhood. One of his older siblings abused him, and he became suicidal,

1:08.6

causing him to be removed from his family and put into foster care.

1:11.6

Several other members of Robert's family were diagnosed with mental illness,

1:16.6

and eventually Robert was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

1:20.6

When he was only 15 years old, his emotional state was so bad that he was institutionalized.

1:26.6

He attended high school up until the

1:29.0

ninth grade when he decided to drop out. During this time, Robert's life had been taken over by a deep

1:34.9

obsession with a celebrity, Samantha Smith, an activist in her early teens who had become famous

1:41.4

after her anti-war letter to a Soviet ambassador received international

1:45.8

attention. Robert's fascination with 13-year-old Samantha quickly snowballed out of control,

1:52.8

and before long he was actively stalking her. He even traveled to Maine in the hopes of meeting

1:58.6

her in person when she returned from a trip to the

2:01.4

Soviet Union, but after a run-in with police, he lost his nerve and went back home. Regardless,

2:07.7

Robert planned on continuing to stalk Samantha. But then in 1985, Barr Harbor Airlines Flight

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