Robert Bardo shoots Rebecca Schaeffer at her door; she dies at Cedars-Sinai at 21

Rebecca Schaeffer, 21, lived alone in West Hollywood and was preparing for an audition with Francis Ford Coppola for The Godfather Part III. That morning, July 18, 1989, a 19-year-old named Robert Bardo knocked on her door, then returned an hour later after having breakfast at a nearby diner. He had stalked her for three years and had paid a detective agency $250 to pull her address from California DMV records. He shot her once in the chest at 10:15 am. She died thirty minutes later at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center…