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LA Times Today: A young actress, an obsessed stalker and a Hollywood murder that changed America

LA Times Today: A young actress, an obsessed stalker and a Hollywood murder that changed America

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Back in the late 1980’s, Rebecca Schaeffer starred alongside Pam Dawber in the television show “My Sister Sam.” Tragically, the 21-year-old actress was killed by an obsessed fan outside of her apartment building.

In the first of a new feature called Criminal Record, L.A. Times Christopher Goffard brought Lisa McRee this heartbreaking Hollywood story.

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