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Mar 2021
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S1 Ep18: Rebecca Schaeffer: The Slaying ...

Amber Hunt and Audioboom
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As actress Rebecca Schaeffer rushed around her apartment to ready for the biggest audition of her career, a disturbed young man was pacing the street below, armed with a gun. Schaeffer's senseless death in 1989 would not only shock the nation, but it would also be the catalyst for the country's first anti-stalking laws.

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