Robert John Bardo
Apr 2, 2024 0:06:32 GMT -5
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Robert John Bardo (born January 2, 1970) is an American man serving life imprisonment without parole after being convicted for the murder of American actress and model Rebecca Schaeffer (November 6, 1967 – July 18, 1989), whom he had stalked for three years.
Bardo grew up in Tucson, Arizona, the youngest of seven children and the son of a former Air Force non-commissioned officer and a Japanese national.
Prior to locking his sights onto Schaeffer, Bardo was fixated with pop stars Madonna, Tiffany, and Debbie Gibson.
Having previously stalked child peace activist Samantha Smith before her death in a 1985 plane crash, Bardo turned his attention to Schaeffer in 1986; among his methods were attempts to gain access to the set of the CBS 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, angry at her for having starred in a sex scene in the film Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills and thus having "lost her innocence". He visited her at her apartment and told her he was a big fan. She asked him to leave. When he came back, he fatally shot her.
The prosecutor for the state was Marcia Clark, who later became famous as a lead prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson trial, though she made her name in the legal profession with her prosecution of Bardo.
Bardo also carried around a copy of The Catcher in the Rye with him when he murdered Schaeffer. He later learned that Mark David Chapman had also carried a copy with him when he shot and killed John Lennon on December 8, 1980.
Bardo was housed in a Security Housing Unit (SHU) for inmates with "sensitive needs", including former gang members, notorious prisoners and those convicted of sex crimes.
As a consequence of Bardo's actions and his methods of obtaining Schaeffer's address, the U.S. Congress passed the Driver's Privacy Protection Act, which prohibits state Departments of Motor Vehicles from disclosing the home addresses of state residents. After the murder, the first anti-stalking state laws were enacted in the US, including California Penal Code 646.9.
The season 2 episode of Law and Order "Star Struck" was partially based on this case.
On July 27, 2007, Bardo was stabbed 11 times on his way to breakfast in the maximum-security unit at Mule Creek State Prison in Amador County, California. Two shivs (inmate-made weapons) were found at the scene. He was treated at the UC Davis Medical Center and returned to prison, officials said. The suspect in the attack was another convict, serving 82 years to life for second-degree murder.
As of 2024, Bardo is serving his life sentence at the Avenal State Prison in Avenal, California.
Bardo grew up in Tucson, Arizona, the youngest of seven children and the son of a former Air Force non-commissioned officer and a Japanese national.
Prior to locking his sights onto Schaeffer, Bardo was fixated with pop stars Madonna, Tiffany, and Debbie Gibson.
Having previously stalked child peace activist Samantha Smith before her death in a 1985 plane crash, Bardo turned his attention to Schaeffer in 1986; among his methods were attempts to gain access to the set of the CBS 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, angry at her for having starred in a sex scene in the film Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills and thus having "lost her innocence". He visited her at her apartment and told her he was a big fan. She asked him to leave. When he came back, he fatally shot her.
The prosecutor for the state was Marcia Clark, who later became famous as a lead prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson trial, though she made her name in the legal profession with her prosecution of Bardo.
Bardo also carried around a copy of The Catcher in the Rye with him when he murdered Schaeffer. He later learned that Mark David Chapman had also carried a copy with him when he shot and killed John Lennon on December 8, 1980.
Bardo was housed in a Security Housing Unit (SHU) for inmates with "sensitive needs", including former gang members, notorious prisoners and those convicted of sex crimes.
As a consequence of Bardo's actions and his methods of obtaining Schaeffer's address, the U.S. Congress passed the Driver's Privacy Protection Act, which prohibits state Departments of Motor Vehicles from disclosing the home addresses of state residents. After the murder, the first anti-stalking state laws were enacted in the US, including California Penal Code 646.9.
The season 2 episode of Law and Order "Star Struck" was partially based on this case.
On July 27, 2007, Bardo was stabbed 11 times on his way to breakfast in the maximum-security unit at Mule Creek State Prison in Amador County, California. Two shivs (inmate-made weapons) were found at the scene. He was treated at the UC Davis Medical Center and returned to prison, officials said. The suspect in the attack was another convict, serving 82 years to life for second-degree murder.
As of 2024, Bardo is serving his life sentence at the Avenal State Prison in Avenal, California.
