Hello to our 2020 listeners. This is David Muir. You told us you wanted more 2020 stories

every week. So we're bringing you the 2020 True Crime Vault. Every week we'll take you

into the 2020 archives to hear one of our most memorable stories. Take a listen.

Coming up. All those rageful feelings. How dare she. She's mine. She's supposed to

stay innocent for me. I'm going to permanently possess you by taking your

life. He was fixated on Rebecca Schaefer. 19-year-old Bartow was

obsessed with Rebecca Schaefer. Rebecca Schaefer was on the brink of

Stardom. There is a brand new face on television this year. I'm an awfully

successful new face. She was just right. She looked like she could be my

sister and she was good. Don't trust an evil heart. Look I'm getting

famil- wait a minute. You're answering them back. You can't do that. This flicked

some sort of evil switch inside Robert John Bartow. Rebecca Schaefer doing a

love scene with an actor. He felt totally betrayed because he felt that she was

his. How dare she. This animal got her address from the DMV paid five or ten

dollars and was handed the personal information of Rebecca Schaefer. This guy

followed her. This guy went to her condo and she opened the door and he shot her

and killed her and she's dead. What? How can this happen? How can you just walk up

to somebody's house and shoot them? This murder was a momentous crime. Change the

way actors in Hollywood went about their lives. I'm John Kinyones. She was just

sixteen when she set off from her home to pursue her dream. Eighteen when she

landed a starring role in a TV sitcom. Twenty-one when she was murdered by a

stalker in front of her West Hollywood apartment. In the thirty years since the

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