Man Gets 3-Year Term for Stalking Landon’s Son
A male model was sentenced in Santa Monica Wednesday to three years in prison for stalking and threatening the teen-age son of the late Michael Landon.
Christopher James Taylor, 19, pleaded no contest to the charges and Superior Court Judge Robert Altman sentenced him to prison with an order never to contact the younger Landon.
Taylor, described as a transient originally from San Bernardino County, was also ordered to undergo psychological evaluation and counseling. Prosecutors said Taylor became obsessed with Christopher Landon, 16, last summer after finding a file on the actor’s son at a Hollywood modeling agency. Taylor began calling the young Landon repeatedly.
“I’m going to get you. I’m going to kill you,” Taylor told the teen-ager in an Oct. 28 phone call, according to Deputy Dist. Atty. Brenda English. He was arrested later and charged with one count of making a terrorist threat and one count of stalking.
Michael Landon, star of “Highway to Heaven,” “Little House on the Prairie” and “Bonanza,” was 54 when he died of cancer July 1, 1991.
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