Deadly Fame: The Case Of Rebecca Schaeffer
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2024
- In today's episode of Deadly Fame we are looking at the case of Rebecca Schaeffer. She became a household name after starring in My Sister Sam, but she would become the fixation of an obsessive fan who was determined to find her, no matter the cost.
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The brother and private detective should’ve been held accountable too.
You right. The. Brother should be in jail too😮😢
She was literally robbed of her life just for living. Rest Peacefully Rebecca.
Agree
I love that story about her pretending to know that woman on the subway, that’s great! she was a class act and a feisty one at that!
Love and baseball
@@pamelasmith726 damnnn 😚
And knoing what needed to be done at such a young age 🙌🏼
Quick-thinking and courageous!
She gave glory to God.
His brother got him a gun, why the hell would you get your mentally unstable brother a gun?!...and his sister got a letter from him telling her that he was going to do something bad, yet she never thought to tell anybody. I’m completely flabbergasted at their stupidity. They could have (maybe) stopped him from murdering an innocent young girl. Cases like this make my blood boil, there was several opportunities to potentially prevent this from happening. And don’t even get me started on the private investigator...
There was so many red flags yet nobody thought to intervene and protect her (or other victims)
Rest In Peace Rebecca ❤️
You took the words right out of my mouth ~~ bloody idiots ~~ both should have been charged as accessories to murder ! No doubt in my mind ! 🇦🇺xoxox
It's all in the family. I, for one, wonder what their parents were like .....
It's not fair to blame his siblings for something they didn't know would happen. He was unstable and a murderer NOT them! He chose to stalk that actress and kill her with that gun. NOT them! It's common sense to us in this day in age what red flags to look for in stalkers or mental health disorders because of the resources we have to be aware of it. He found her because the system had no protection for privacy laws.
@@yjay4084 If my brother came to me and told me to get him a gun because he got turned down, I'd tell him to fuck right off with that. No one NEEDS a gun that bad that you'd go get your brother one when he's been denied.
If I bought my brother that gun anyway and he went and murdered someone with it, I'd feel just as guilty as if I pulled the trigger, and I'd expect to be arrested. The approval process to purchase a gun is there for a reason, and it should be illegal for someone to circumnavigate around it by getting someone else to buy a gun for you when you've been turned down for whatever reason.
The brother is just a culpable as the idiot PI who gave a stranger someone's home address without any reason to do so.
So much went wrong with so many people enabling this dude's mental issues. That PI, I hope he doesn't sleep too well at night. He's just as responsible as well.
Bono, U2 & The Joshua drove him mad!
Now Bono is flying around with Nazi Klaus Schwab of the WEF.
"Times they are a changing.............................."
The PI, his absolutely abysmal excuse of a brother, and, to an extent, his sister, are just as complicit in all of this. Terrible human beings.
My personal opinion, the brother should be charged with a crime also. Knowing your brother is an offender but purchase a gun for them is criminal.
Definitely 💯% agree with you!
In the us you get a gun for christmas, at 18 can have one, but not a beer
Correct.
Blood is on his hands.
Absolutely Agree 💯
Agreed. His brother knew that he was unstable. He is just as guilty. R. I. P Rebecca ❤️💐
The insanity that a person--after a widely publicized case where an actress was attacked in this very manner--can approach ANY private detective and say "hey I want to find this celebrity" and the PI says "sure no problem" and then after he murders her the PI says on the stand at the trial that he had no idea this could have happened...smh I'm glad those laws have changed but did someone really have to die for the change to happen? It seems like death is the only thing that wakes up our society.
Sadly yes it takes a devastating incident to change laws.
So sad that it was after her tragic murder that laws finally changed!
She was so wise beyond her years at such a very young age. Only being about 16 years old, in a scary subway, in a brand new city, witnessing a woman getting threatened by a man, with a screwdriver, but still finds the courage to help her by acting as if she knows the woman. That's power & strength & bravery. She's amazing! Rest in Peace Rebecca! 🙏🏻😇
Dude wasn't "made out to be a murderer," he WAS a murderer. He killed a complete stranger, an innocent 21-year-old woman, because he didn't like the way she talked to him when he invaded her privacy after stalking her. I'm glad he was convicted of first-degree murder, as he was clearly 100% guilty.
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Unfortunately he's still alive
He’s obviously very dangerous & would go on to murder others he stalked if they said or did anything that upset him in his sick head, lock him up & throw away the key!!
The detective agency should be hold accountable to.
And his brother.
@@mrchopsticks3plus the DMV employees who provided Rebecca Schaeffer's address
@@99mrpogi No, what they did was totally legal and probably something they did all the time with no issue.
@@mrchopsticks3 makes me wonder how the DMV employees are not included? Unless the investigator told the DMV that Robert Bardo is an old friend of Rebecca Schaeffer(which is definitely not true)
@@99mrpogi In 1989, people didn't need a reason in California to request an address from the DMV. They just asked, paid a small fee, and got it. It wasn't until after Rebecca was killed that the law was changed. So for the DMV employees, someone asking for an address was not a strange request.
When I lived in L.A. from 2008-2014. I lived 8 blocks away from where Rebecca was murdered. I used to drive by those apartments on my way to work and school every day. Rest In Peace Rebecca.
The way she helped the scared girl in the subway, she sounded like a wonderful person 😊
Moving across the country to NYC, especially in the early 80’s at the age of 16 is BRAVE. So sad.
Even back then that's awfully young to be so far on your own.
Sometimes the people that look like the creeps, actually are. Yikes.
How were his brother and sister not charged with anything? Not only did they do nothing to stop him but actually helped him? What the HECK?!?!
Also the PI, he hired to find her address.
@@bernadinechetty7152 YESSSS!!!
At the time having knowledge of a crime wasn't a crime in CA. If it were today they probably all would of gone for accessories to Murder 1.
I thought the brother and sister were really creepy and totally out of touch. If I had a sibling that was behaving that way, I would be freaked out. I would be sure to intervene...collectively, and, if necessary authorities would be contacted. Getting a gun for your brother, knowing that it's going to be used to murder someone, is pretty telling. Rotten to the core, sad to say.
Right?! I cannot believe the brother would just willingly help him knowing he almost certainly was going to use that gun to harm somebody. At bare minimum, there should have been a concern his brother would use the gun to harm himself, so why in the hell give him one!? I cannot comprehend this!?
11:40 I can’t get over how stunning she was! This story is so unbelievably sad, her final moments were full of such confusion and fear. For what? Why? Baffling.
Where do these guys get that massive sense of entitlement?
Because some people are not wired correctly in the head.
society
Its the predator cell. Either control it or let it control you.
Because women would NEVER behave in this way...
@@sirandrelefaedelinoge she means the two guys mentioned in the video. So calm down
His brother should be prosecuted too for buying that gun knowing he was probably going to use it.
Exactly disgusting and the sister is too for not calling authorities to get him mental help
and...the detective agency - her life was only worth $250.00 to them
@@LadyWhinesalot and the mail man for delivering the autograph she sent him, also dont forget the grocery stores that sold him food over the years, and of course the Earth for giving him air, and also his parents for fucking.
Yes
You took the words right out of my mouth! I thought the same thing!
All these relatives knew their brother got a gun and was writting weird letters but did nothing to prevent this and damn these ”so called private investigators” should not be allowed to investigate unattached address (strangers address) for their clients. It is so sickening.
She would have been 54 years old today. Still young and striving like all other actresses in Hollywood. Continue to rest sweet Rebecca!
I totally agree. His family knew he was obsessed with Rebecca and other women from the past, and that he was planning to cause harm to her. But they didn't do anything to stop him. And as for the private investigator. . . . His job is to find information, no matter what it is. And they charge a lot of money for their services x
Her legacy is these tough stalking laws that were passed, which may have already saved many others like her and continue to do so.
What does the law do?
Stalking still isn't taken as seriously as it should be.
These laws didn’t help shit according to Ariana Grande’s stalker.. broke in to her house 92 times and only got 3 years
Marcia Clark is such an amazing attorney. She's an outstanding prosecutor! RIP REBECCA 🙏👍
She was not so amazing in the OJ trial. Marcia and Chris Darden were inept and incompetent.
she chose not to go for the death penalty- she is a weak dame.
Vicious little man that couldn’t accept the word NO. Seeing how he draws pics of other celebs as well just makes it even more creepy. If he ever got out (not that he would) but there’s no doubt he’d do it again..
I’m gonna miss this series! It’s been so so good 😊
i even think he may have been lying when he said she got really nasty with him... i think all she said was please don't come to my home.. he felt rejected and he was obsessed... i think he made that stuff up
@@kimmyfreak200 I agree with you there! I don’t think she sad anything bad to him at all it’s just his sick way of justifying what he did in his twisted mind.
@@JosephKulik2016 shut up 🤐 your comment do my head in mate. Talk into the void some more
There's video of his interagation and it's pretty sick and disturbing to watch him describe and act out how she reacted to being shot. And how she was screaming why?
Gacy also did artwork....
I was a huge fan of this actress and her natural talent... and I remember the heartbreak I felt when I heard the tragic news of the young life stolen.
Kudos to her for helping that lady on the subway. I like that advice chose between adventure or regret. 💕
What ever mental illness he has, he’s obviously very dangerous & people must be protected from him.
Damn what a sad case :( crazy to think that before her there were no anti-stalking laws!
That quote at 13:30 makes me so mad. Who the f*ck did he think he was?! She didn’t want to be bothered by a total stranger who turned up at her frikin house uninvited and he’s got the nerve to say “not a very nice thing to say to a fan”
Get over yourself my god!
definitely the madonna complex... they put them on a pedastal and think of them as angels, and they are so innocent and perfect but the second they displease or show any sign of being sexual or outside of that angelic idealized version in his head, he is quite disgusted and over it suddenly and sees her nothing but a w h o r e ...
This makes me think about Christina Grimmie. I'm so sorry for what happened to both of them. That's not fair
And to think both Christina Grimmie and Rebecca Schaeffer are two young women in their early 20s who got murdered by obsessed fans
RIP Rebecca.
Very sad story.
Thoughts are with her family and friends.
Your channel is excellent.
Absolutely loving the deadly fame series. Super interesting videos and these tragic stories are told with such grace! You definitely give these cases the love they deserve
its one of the best crime channels and so respectful, compassionate and thorough in the facts...i like the intro at the beginning where it shows interviews or court clips i hope they don't change their style because its really good. I want this channel to get more recognition. its greatly deserved. their videos are so well done and they do a beautiful job presenting these horrifying stories...the quality is really high as well as the narrator has a nice voice. Its done with grace and integrity i really like that (i've seen other channels where they make really sick jokes and are downright disrespectful i hate that) truly criminal is the best on youtube..
Thanks so much everyone for your lovely comments! It's really appreciated!
@@TrulyCriminal can you please do one covering Grace Milane?
I'd love to watch and listen to your take on the case
@@kimmyfreak200 Omg definitely my favorite crime channel
Wow I had no idea she dated Brad Silberling! What a power duo they would have been today! So sad. I knew about this case but as always you shed more information on it and told me things I didn’t know thank you!
Like brad silberling could have probably been Rebecca Schaeffer's husband had she lived longer. Though it's Hard to guarantee as to whether they'd last longer or get divorced
Man she was such an angel. She helped that woman 😢😢😢she was grateful for her fans. What a sweet heart. Gone too soon
What a beautiful young lady. I remember when this case happened. We have had and continue to have a mental health crisis in this country. Perhaps someday we'll address the fact that there aren't enough facilities or practitioners.
and they release dangerous individuals and they end up killing people sometimes their entire families...i watched so many cases where they say "he was released from mental hospital" and its after a terrible violent crime like kidnap and assault of every kind. I think this is a huge problem that needs to be addressed
The Victim said it all when he shot her:
Why?
A lot of people should have to answer that question.
This didn't happen in a vacuum.
very sad case .... great job on the video
How is it that before this people could just phone up and get people addresses without permission? It’s crazy to me that was allowed
So young. So much more to offer. All because he couldn’t accept that she didn’t want him. Jesus
Back in the day, many celebrities had their names and addresses in the local phone books. There were a few fan stalkings before this including a female fan who shot baseball star Eddie Waitkus in the 1950s but the thought of actually shooting celebrities didn't become a thing until the 1980s, starting with the death of John Lennon. They were so rare, legislation did not seem necessary.
this case really did shed massive light on the fact that everything was too accessible...he should have never even been on the property of warner brothers period and should have had a restraining order against him when he kept returning and with a knife. so many missed opportunities like when he wrote the letter to his sister about not wanting anyone else to have rebecca and if he can't no one can why not tell the police right away... ugh..
@@orangehoof i said the same thing cuz honestly i don't recall very many stalking cases for celebs until the 80s...it started to get out of control by the 80s
Welcome to the new world
Our home addresses are all over the internet. I had a stalker and tried to get these sites to delete my address info but couldn’t get ahold of most of them. Fortunately that guy died last year, but there needs to be a law to keep out address info private.
I watch a LOT of true crime programming on CZcams. I found this to be well-researched and exceptionally well-presented. My congratulations. It helped that you had archives from Court TV but you still added a great deal of detail beyond this. Rebecca's dying words were "Why? Why?" How tragic. And, yet, those who love her pushed for her death to have meaning with laws to protect future stalking victims from being exposed by government record. That doesn't bring her back to life or comfort her family and friends but it does answer "why" in a cosmic sense. May she rest in piece.
I discovered your channel yesterday I've been binge watching your content. Good editing and you keep an even voice in your narration without trying to give a creepy feeling and showing respect to the victims.
Video recommendations: some Playboy bunnies were murdered by their partners, I know they aren't really celebrities but sometimes I feel they get forgotten by the stigma of their work. There are maybe 3 I can remember, Jasmine, Christina and the most well known was Dorothy Stratten
Very sad and so heartbreaking. She had everything going for her 😭😭😭 RIP, Rebecca 🌹🌹🌹
It’s crazy how Rebecca was two years older than him, but looked decades younger. So sad as to what her life could have become.
Yesss Marcia Clark is such a boss! This case is terrifying.. Poor sweet young girl. So talented and funny and so much to do in her life. Robert Bardo is frightening..The fact he still draws pics of her...no..just no
i started cheering when i heard her name... she was a boss! i didn't even know she prosecuted this case
also this part was chilling (the guy is laughing and bragging...not insane just disturbed and creepy) 20:18
I have seen this guy in many documentaries, but yours really was very informative, detailed and presented very nicely thank you!
I'm enjoying this series enormously! Thank you. You're doing a terrific job! You truly honoured Rebecca with this piece - I want you to know that. Well done, you! Bless
I remember this case back then. They should ban selling those so-called “Stars/Celebrities Home” maps in Hollywood. Seeing him singing/rocking back & forth, in his chair @ 19:09 minutes to U2 song, definitely gives me the creeps!! RIP Rebecca🙏 😢
RIP to her. She was beautiful
I’m not sure if you already have these celebs in mind, but I’d love to see a video on Selena and Marvin Gaye
I didn’t know Marvin Gaye was murdered. Would love to hear the story
@@autumnhoogsteen8494 yeah he was murdered by his own father
@@TayePurks oh wow I didn’t know he was murdered & by his own father. That’s super messed up. I would also love to see that added to the series
He looks a lot older, his brother should of reported him to the police.
This is so sad . She was so young and her life was stolen away from . RIP Rebecca.
Good lord A Judge who respectfully did his Job
Unlike the "Judge" in the Dominique Dunn murder trial.
33 years On Never Forgotten RIP Rebecca
I had completely forgotten about “My Sister Sam”! I loved her as a kid.
This case is a terrible tragedy ..... keep the videos coming
I agree :(
I actually remember when this happened. I was a young kid in grade school. I think that’s when people started taking “stalking”, more seriously.
Also after Theresa Saldana was almost stabbed to death by a vicious lunatic fan stalking was starting to be taken more seriously. Unfortunately, not soon enough for poor Rebecca.
Yeah, it totally changed the game as I remember.
It’s just so sad that such a beautiful spirited girl with such a lot of ambition and so much courage to pursue a career like acting had her whole life destroyed by snivelling little shit
I've seen you comment on other true crime vids (true crime nut myself) but the sniveling little shit cracked me up! Truth is tho 👌
Please understand, you don't have to be famous to have a deadly stalker. I had one for over two decades. There are so many signs, so please pay attention to who is around you, what is going on, and always be prepared to act if you feel endangered. This poor girl was so naive. It's so sad what happened to her!
I agree. I was stalked
I’m being stalked and ur right.
Another brilliantly researched and narrated case! It’s so good to hear of little known murders rather than just another retelling of the more famous ones. Well done!
Dude was 19?!? He looks like he's 47 in those pics. You can just see the insanity in his eyes. RIP Rebecca Schaffer. She was a beautiful young woman.
You know you watch too much crime when you recognize the face of a prosecutor from a different country to your own! 🙂 Such a sad case, she had such a brilliant life ahead of her to look forward to.😔💖
Heartbreaking!
I dont think any woman can get rid of a dangerous obsessive stalker.
Brother sister and private investigator should have been charged with accomplice
These are all so sad. At least her killer got the punishment he deserved, unlike Dominique Dunne's :(
The judge in D.D. case was a complete asshole and he surpressed evidence that would've gotten him a much longer prison sentence
What a sad case.
thanks for doing this one! it has always bothered me alot because she was at her own home and thats especially terrible...
You always do very good work ☺️
I read The Catcher in the Rye. Didn't make me feel like killing anyone. Except maybe JD Salinger.
I hated that book too.
Ditto! I wrote a paper on that book and some other teenage angst books back in 10th grade. I remember practically banging my head on the typewriter (yes, I’m old 😁) wondering who what and why made this book so important that 10th graders all over the country had to waste time reading it. Didn’t Salinger kill himself? But it sure didn’t inspire me to go murder a celebrity
@@suekelley2109 No he died a very old man not that long ago.
LOL, same.
This might be my favorite CZcams comment of all time.
This is one of the saddest cases I have ever heard of. I feel so bad for her parents. 😞 That sweet picture of the three of them just breaks my heart. Sadly we live in a world where monsters walk among us and we just never know who they are.
Such a beautiful young, talented lady. May she R.I.P.
Your channel is very well done. I learn new things about these cases consistently, and I have read about and seen videos on many. Your videos are among the best. The attention to detail is much appreciated. Thank you.
The fact that he draws pictures of her in prison would absolutely infuriate me if I were her family.
Here's an interesting fact. I'm a Canadian living in Sweden for almost 6 years. The information on the plates in Sweden is completely public. The plate is put on the car before it's first sale, and stays there until the car is demolished. I can see all current, and previous owners', names and addresses. At first I thought this was pretty crazy, but like countries with legalized drugs, it seems to keep people in check. I like it, in a weird way.
thats kind of cool... and in a way a bit paranoid but it does work!
Great upload thankyou 💯
Poor girl! I so don't get the worship of actors!? We should appreciate their talent but they're just people like the rest of us.
The fact that he says "he MAY have carried it too far" 😲😞
Why didn't Warner security call the lapd when he turned up the second time and had a knife? Go, Marcia Clark!
Another great upload. Thank you so much, keep up the good work x
So sad for the parents. Their only child murderer.
She is a angel now..rest in peace Rebecca
She looks so peaceful and pretty. I am so sad even though i dont know her at all.
So sad, tragic and unfair!
At least there was justice and her horrible murder left to changes in laws to protect others like her.
I loved My Sister Sam when I was a teen... and was so upset she was murdered. Just heartbreaking 💔 😢
A stalker os the scariest craziest thing ever! The dumb part is when the law ignores people when they bring it to their attention.
Ya know, this was absolutely a heartbreaking and senseless tragedy. I remember watching "My Sister Sam" episodes on Nick at Night. So pitiful!!!
Such an incredible waste. Devastating to be cut down when you’re on the verge of really getting your career started.
I really enjoyed this video x Thank you for the upload. I never ever knew the proper story, really interesting x
The theme song to “My Sister Sam” seems a little ironic now. “Everyday starts like a knock on the door..you don’t know who it is but you know who it’s for”
Damn
😕
this was so incredibly well done! she seemed like a really sweet trusting person and she had a bright future ahead of her. They take much more precautions now than they did back then. Now i know why celebrities shake and act nervous when i would say hi i use to run into them all the time where I lived because they had moved to my town to get away from hollywood. Its so unfortunate to have a tragic loss in this way. Stalkers are so terrifying and many are not insane at all like ricardo lopez bjork stalker he was very self aware he just wanted to die and hurt the one person he obsessed over in his mind the closest he ever came to love. Its that same mentality many stalkers seem to share. Poor Rebecca :(
Completely agree with this comment
It’s frightening
Agree. I couldn’t even imagine being a celebrity with all of the nut jobs out there today. Especially a semi-celebrity like her...in the public eye but not making enough money to hire 24/7 bodyguards.
@@TeamCat1128 yah when actors and actresses were first starting out they unfortunately did have their guard down for this stuff...they were very humble and trusting even answering fan mail and reading letters they received and they'd do fun stuff back then like do contests for like a charity thing like the winner would get to go on a date with them very risky stuff.. remember the dating game killer (a serial killer that went on a dating show rodney alcala)? gives me anxiety thinking about that
You make so many comments, no one is gonna stalk you lmao
Rebecca was too nice to him,I would have been locked and LOADED waiting for him the 2nd time if police didn't do anything,people like this you cannot be nice
Ur right
He seemed so happy recounting how he killed her. Evil
I remember when this happened! So sad!!!
This is not fair, this is not fair 😭😭😭
She was so full of life, and she was so beautiful inside and out. Only living 21 years is such an injustice. I love you Rebecca even when I never met you, may you never be forgotten 😭😭😭💔
I remember when this happened. It was so shocking and sad
He looks like an old shoe.
lol
so ugly, you can see the evil in his eyes
Frankenstein five head ,that ain’t a forehead that’s a billboard !!disgusting man 😞
Great episode. Thankyou.
Looks like something out of the hills have eyes film
What is it with people…the brother buys a guy for him knowing his mental issues ( why he wasn’t sold one in the first place) then the sister gets a note from him..indicating his intentions and says nothing…she also knows he’s unstable and then a private investigator can go along and find out where someone is living…did he not question why he wanted the address??!! This could have been prevented if the family especially had spoken up with the evidence they had…unbelievable just makes me so angry RIP Rebecca ❤
Another great video in the series. Killin it, yall! Pun absolutely intended. Love the cold open in this one. 😉👌🍻
His brother couldn't be more stupid and irresponsible...he should be put in jail!
Great quality true crime content! Keep them coming! 💯
She was such a natural beauty!! Didn't need to much make-up.. she really didn't need any at all...
It's nice that the people in jail are punishing him, that's justice.