The Sunnyvale Stalker Shootings: The Terrifying Case Of Richard Farley
I Could Murder A Podcast
ICMAP LTD
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🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
It was just another regular Tuesday afternoon in the city of Sunnyvale, California. The employees at ESL Incorporated were going about their day, blissfully unaware that their office building was about to become the scene of one of the most shocking shooting sprees in the state's history... Little did they know that, out in the carpark, sat a dangerous and vindictive ex-employee... One who felt scorned, rejected, belittled and very much ready to take his revenge... 39-year-old Richard Farley was sitting in a rented motorhome, plotting his malicious attack... Armed with an arsenal of weapons, more than a thousand rounds of ammunition, and years of simmering obsession, he began his journey towards the office building... Farley forced his way inside, shooting multiple rounds indiscriminately at anything and anyone unfortunate enough to be caught in his path… His main target and apparently his ultimate motivation for this heinous attack was 26-year-old Laura Black. Farley had been instantly fixated with the young engineer from the moment he met eyes with her 4 years earlier… He professed his feelings for her several times - and he simply would not take “no” for an answer.
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Presented by Tom Norris & Ben Carter
Written by Ben Carter
Produced by Dan J Lambert
Edited by Ben Bonsey
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| 0:18.6 | At 3 o'clock in the afternoon on February 16th, 1988, Farley shot through the glass doors of ESL. |
| 0:25.6 | Armed with 98 pounds of weaponry, including an assault rifle, four handguns, and 1100 rounds of ammunition, |
| 0:32.6 | Farley walked through hallways shooting at everything that moved. |
| 0:36.6 | Within 30 minutes, he'd killed seven, |
| 0:39.1 | injured two, and had committed one of the worst massacres in California's history. |
| 0:43.9 | I started out the door and there were people standing out there and they said, no, get back in the |
| 0:48.9 | building, there's shooting in M5. And of course you could hear it and it just seemed to go on and on and it was it was a nightmare |
| 0:56.0 | the older employees seemed to know who it was and and why you're saying the people who |
| 1:01.8 | worked in that building knew it was Richard Farley and knew what it was about yes there was my |
| 1:06.8 | decision to get a restraining order and I knew that you know very likely that would trigger him |
| 1:12.8 | I had no idea that he would take it out on more than just me Farley later told police he did it to |
| 1:19.7 | show people at ESL who'd laughed at him that he wasn't a wimp but one of his first victims was |
| 1:25.4 | someone he didn't even know 23 23-year-old Buddy Williams. |
| 1:29.4 | Buddy had his whole life ahead of him. |
| 1:31.5 | You know, he was married. They were looking forward to children very soon. |
| 1:36.4 | He was a brand new employee just going to San Jose State. |
| 1:39.6 | 43-year-old Joseph Silva was the last of Farley's seven victims. |
| 1:44.2 | He was running and was shot in the back by Farley. |
| 1:51.1 | He tried to get up from the floor, and as he was trying to get up, |
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