Robert John Bardo
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Robert John Bardo (January 2, 1970-) is an American criminal currently serving life without parole for the highly publicized murder of actress Rebecca Schaeffer in 1989, whom he had stalked for several years beforehand. Having previously stalked Samantha Smith, Deborah Gibson, Dyan Cannon, Madonna and Tiffany, Bardo turned his attention to Schaeffer in 1986; among his methods were attempts to gain access to the set of the TV series My Sister Sam, in which Schaeffer was then starring. Ultimately, he obtained her home address via a detective agency, which in turn had obtained it from the California Department of Motor Vehicles. He confronted her at her home, supposedly for having starred in a sex scene in the film Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills and thus having lost her innocence. Triggered by what he considered to be rude behavior toward him, he shot her, resulting in her death.
He grew up in Tucson, Arizona, the youngest of seven children and the son of a former Air Force officer. Partly as a result of his actions and means of obtaining Schaeffer's address, California passed a law prohibiting the DMV from releasing home addresses.
