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Celebrity Justice7/28/2007 12:40 PM PDT BY TMZ STAFF
Rebecca Schaeffer's Killer Stabbed

Killer Robert John Bardo, who was convicted of stalking and killing actress Rebecca Schaeffer in 1989, was stabbed by another inmate yesterday. Bardo was stabbed 11 times while he and fellow inmates were walking to breakfast in the prison yard, according to Mule Creek State Prison officials. He survived the attack.


Schaeffer was the star of the 1980s sitcom "My Sister Sam." Bardo was obsessed with Schaeffer and stalked her for several months. He eventually tracked her down with the help of a private detective, and shot her to death when she answered the door of her L.A. home. She was 21.

The suspect identified as responsible for stabbing Bardo is serving an 82-years-to-life sentence for second-degree murder. Bardo was 19 when he stalked and killed Schaeffer. He is serving life without parole. The case led to the classification of stalking as a felony in California.

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Petite:  1661 days ago

seanflynn, thank you for those stats and reference points. I will be looking into this, out of curiosity now.
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21.Posted at 1:02PM on Jul 28th 2007 by Prince Romanoff
Seanflynn...I think she lived on North Sweetzer.***************
************I asked for stats, and I received them. Your comments are unnessary.*******





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Glisten Garbor:  1661 days ago

Well he wouldn't have survived the attack had the guards just let him die in a corner..

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Sean Bresnahan:  1661 days ago

I remember "My Sister Sam" very well. It was an innocuous piece of fluff saved by the wonderful chemistry between Rebecca and Pam Dawber. Hard to believe so many years have gone by...

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Petite:  1661 days ago

Your death penalty which is supposed to be a deterrent to crime doesn't seem to work. Posted at 1:09PM on Jul 28th 2007 by double standards...
Last time I looked your prisons were overflowing and crime was still rampant. What's the point?? The state is allowed to legally kill people while saying it is wrong to kill??? The bible says thou shalt not kill...which applies to everyone including the very officials who condemn killing. Double standard don't you think?
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No, it's about revenge and justice for murders.
But apparently, it costs WAY MORE TO KILL THEM THAN TO KEEP THE SORRY BASTARDS ALIVE.



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Petite:  1661 days ago

PARDON ME IF YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT THE VICTIM- MY MISTAKE.

21.Posted at 1:02PM on Jul 28th 2007 by Prince Romanoff
Seanflynn...I think she lived on North Sweetzer.***************
************I asked for stats, and I received them. Your comments are unnessary.*******

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Petite:  1661 days ago

Here in the South, we have a different way of looking at justice. If you were raised in the South, by long-time Southners (not implants), justice is found at the end of a rope, not in sending someone to prison for life.

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Cluck You PETA:  1661 days ago

To bad he wasn't killed in the stabbing.

I have no sympathy for anyone who takes the life of another.

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Petite:  1661 days ago

"Your death penalty which is supposed to be a deterrent to crime doesn't seem to work."
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Yeah, thats what "they" say, but we all know it's about justice and revenge.

If someone killed your loved on- shot them in the face in cold-blooded murder, I think you just may want them dead, too. If the cops had a shoot out, and he was killed, I'm sure there would be no "hard feelings" for the cops, and no sympathy for the bad guy.

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Amy:  1661 days ago

LMAO # 18 EMME - funny! I was gonna get him if you didn't. Obviously a Lib who's all against the cruel, inhumane death penalty.

South Dakota just had their first execution in 60 years - Elijah Page opted to give up his appeals, preferring to be executed over spending the rest of his life in prison for his part in the TORTURE SLAYING OF CHESTER ALLAN POAGE. Do a search and READ THE STORY! It is the most heinous crime imaginable, what these three monsters did to 19 year old Chester Allan Poage. They pretended to befriend him and tortured this poor boy till he was dead. This murder could not have been more cruel. And their motive was to rob his parents house.

RIP Chester Allan Poage.... age 19

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Petite:  1661 days ago

IMO, this site is frequented by mostly conservitive-leaning men and women. I don't know where all the bleeding-heart liberals hang out at, but it's not HERE!

The Libs would never make fun of behavior that they themselves condone and accept in their "live and let live" mentality.

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Kore:  1661 days ago

I remember watching this show as a child and falling in love with Rebecca and when I found out she died, I cried and was depressed for weeks. It was such a sad, traumatic event in my early years. How ironic of his fate!

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Omni:  1661 days ago

As I remember, this case was a wake up call for Hollywood, as well as the nation. People realized how serious stalking can be. Laws were changed to prevent anyone obtaining private information from public agencies. Marcia Clarke (O.J. trial) successfully prosecuted Bardo. I don't know why this psycho didn't get the death penalty. There is another villian in this tragedy: the p.i. who assisted Bardo. He should have been held accountable.

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Terry:  1661 days ago

It is only more expensive to Execute someone rather than hold them for life if we continue the appeals process as it stands today. That is where the change's need to be made in our system
We need to put more safe guards in place up front so that the right person is truly being executed and then stop the never ending circus of appeals.

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Cherry:  1661 days ago

Seanflynn- As someone else already pointed out the cost of execution is only higher because of the LONG drawn out appeals process furthermore, your research was lacking one key and quite expensive factor for the life imprisonment: THE PAY OF THE GAURDS WHO WATCH OVER THESE EVIL PEOPLE 24 HOURS A DAY... I am a criminal justice graduate I achieved my degree with high honors and needless to say just about everyone I know is a correctional officer. However in my classes the one thing we were told quite often was the extremely high cost of the appeals process as stated before if this were eliminated we would not have such high cost for the death sentence. AND AS I STATED BEFORE I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT WORK IN THE JUSTICE SYSTEM AND THEY ALL EACH AND EVERYONE WILL TELL YOU THAT LIFE IN PRISON THESE DAYS IS NOT THAT BAD THEY GET TV AND SPORTS AND MEALS A HOME PEOPLE GIVE THEM MONEY AND WITH THAT THEY ARE ALLOWED TO ORDER FROM CATALOGS AND BUY THEMSELVES NICE THINGS NICER THEN A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE HONEST HARD WORKERS WHO DECIDE BETWEEN NICE THINGS AND THE FOOD ON THEIR TABLE THE FOOD THAT INMATES RECIEVE FOR FREE. THEY ARE ABLE TO PLAY GAMES RECIEVE DEGREES FOR FREE DEGREES SOME PEOPLE CANNOT AFFORD TO GET OR DO NOT HAVE TIME AS THEY ARE WORKING SO HARD TO TAKE CARE OF THEIR FAMILIES. THEY GET DRUGS MORE EASILY ON THE INSIDE THEN THEY DO ON THE OUT AS A MTTER OF FACT QUITE A FEW ADDICTS WILL GET THEMSELVES ARRESTED ON PURPOSE SO THAT THEY MAY RECIEVE THESE DRUGS AND CAN USE EVERY DIME THEY HAVE TO BUY THINGS TO TRADE FOR THESE DRUGS BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO OTHER BILLS TO PAY AS EVERYTHING THEY COULD EVER NEED IS PROVIDED BY THE STATE. DURING MY COLLEGE YEARS I SPENT A GREAT DEL OF TIME A SEVERAL DIFFERENT PRISONS INTERVIEWING SEVERAL DIFFERENT TYPES OF CONVICTS RAPISTS MURDERS CHILD MOLESTORS AND SO FOURTH A NUMBER OF THEM FROM EACH CATAGORY ADMITTED THAT LIFE IN PRISON IS NOT THAT BAD HOWEVER THE ONES ON DEATH ROW DID SAY THE WORST FEELING IN THE WORLD IS KNOWING AND WAITING TO DIE!!! QUITE A FEW ALSO ADMITTED THAT IF EVER RELEASED THEY COULD NOT SAY THEY WOULD NOT DO IT AGAIM. THIS IS NOT TO SAY THAT SOME ARE NOT REMORSEFUL FOR THEIR ACTIONS AS A MTTER OF FACT I HONESTLY FELT BAD FOR A LOT OF THEM BECUASE THEY COMMITED THEIR CRIME AT SUCH YOUNG AGES UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF DRUGS AND THE GANGS THAT TOOK THEM IN BECAUSE THEIR PARENTS WERE JUNKIES 30 YEARS LATER THEY ARE OFF THE DRUGS AND ARE GROWN MEN WHO HAVE NOT EXPERIENCED LIFE HOWEVER THAT DOES NOT EXCUSE THEIR ACTIONS OR THE CHOICES THAT THEY MADE BECAUSE NOT ALL PEOPLE IN BAD NEIGHBORHOODS WITH CRACK-HEAD PARENTS TURN INTO MURDERS OR DRUG DEALERS OR ADDICTS THEY COULD HAVE GOTTEN GRANTS FOR COLLEGE AND MADE SOMETHING OF THEIRSELVES JUST AS EASILY AS THEY CHOSE THE OTHER PATH. ALL THIS SAID I HAVE NEVER BEEN A BIG SUPPORTER OF THE DEATH PENALTY DO TO THE IN ACCRACY OF OUR JUDICIAL SYSTEM AT TIMES AS WELL AS THE FACT THAT IF WE KILL SOMEONE THEN ARE WE ANY BETTER THEN THE MURDERER? BUT WHY SHOULD THEY LIVE IN EASE WHILE INNOCENT HARD WORKING PEOPLE STRUGGLE EVERYDAY TO MAKE ENDS MEET. I MAY NOT BELIEVE 100% IN THE DEATH PENALTY BUT I DO 100% BELIEVE THAT WE ARE WAY TO CONCERENED WITH THE RIGHTS OF CRIMINALS AND NOT NEARLY CONCERNED ENOUGH WITH EVERYDAY HONEST CITIZENS WHO ARE HARMED BY OR WHO HAVE TO PAY TAXES FOR THESE CRIMINALS I AM SURE THAT THERE IS SOME WAY TO MAKE THESE PEOPLE WORK TO EARN THEIR KEEP AND TO STOP TAX PAYERS FROM PAYING FOR THEM TO WATCH TV AND PLAY CARDS WHILE THE HONEST PEOPLE SOMETIME CAN NOT AFFORD THE LUXURY OF A TV. MAKE THEM PAY FOR THEMSELVES INSTEAD OF US PAYING FOR THEM AND MAYBE THE ADDICTS AND CAREER CRIMINALS WONT BE SO EAGER TO GO BACK TO JAIL! ONE LAST THING LIFE IN PRISON IS NOT EASY FOR THE FAMILIES OF THESE CRIMINALS BUT IT IS NOT SO HARD FOR THE CRIMINALS THEMSELVES! SORRY FOR THE RANT Y'ALL

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bIUBBuLa:  1661 days ago

Hope some of the stabs were in his eyes.

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