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Rebecca Schaeffer was at the beginning of a promising acting career. She was gorgeous, talented, and dedicated. She landed the cover of Seventeen magazine, nabbed several movie roles, a recurring role on a soap opera, and most notably, a role on the CBS sitcom, \\u201cMy Sister Sam.\\u201d But as Rebecca\\u2019s fame grew, an unstable 19-year-old named Robert John Bardo became obsessed with her. What transpired would help criminalize stalking in the United States.

Then Brandi wraps up her horrifying series on Johnson County crimes with a story she first read when she was 10 years old. Seriously. Ten. This is why we\\u2019re weird.

It starts innocently enough. When Ed Hobson met Sueanne at a local skating rink, he was smitten. He asked her out. She turned him down. He asked her out again. She turned him down again. Then Sueanne spotted Ed\\u2019s high-end car and decided she\\u2019d give him a chance. Eventually, the two married. The pair had children from previous marriages, so Ed brought his 13-year-old son Chris and Sueanne brought her 13-year-old daughter Suzanne into the home. Everything went great. Until it didn\\u2019t.

And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.

In this episode, Kristin pulled from:
\\n\\n\\u201cSuspect in actress\\u2019 murder spirited to LA,\\u201d Associated Press
\\n\\n\\u201cSanity issue raised by Bardo Lawyer,\\u201d Los Angeles Times
\\n\\n\\u201cPolice directed to evidence in actress\\u2019 death,\\u201d Los angeles Times
\\n\\n\\u201cRobert John Bardo,\\u201d Wikipedia.com
\\n\\n\\u201cRebecca Schaeffer,\\u201d Wikipedia.com
\\n\\n\\u201cThe shocking 1983 crime that raised awareness about stalking,\\u201d Gizmodo
\\n\\n\\u201cA rising star lives to shine again after a near fatal knifing,\\u201d People magazine
\\n\\n\\u201cSix years ago, Rebecca Schaeffer was fatally shot,\\u201d Entertainment Weekly
\\n\\n\\u201cIt took this up-and-coming actress\\u2019s tragic death to change anti-stalking laws,\\u201d Ranker
\\n\\n\\u2026 and several other articles from newspapers.com

In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
\\n\\n\\u201cFamily Affairs\\u201d by Andy Hoffman
\\n\\n\\u201cHit Mom\\u201d episode Evil Stepmothers
\\n\\n\\u201cStepmother of 13 year old boy forced to dig his own grave charged with murder\\u201d UPI
\\n\\n\\u201cSueanne Hobson wanted her 13-year-old stepson killed by Christmas\\u201d by Toni Cardarella, UPI
\\n\\n\\u201cA jury Friday convicted Sueanne Hobson of first degree murder\\u201d by Michele DiGirolamo, UPI
\\n\\n\\u201cLove Never Dies\\u201d by Ben Paynter, The Pitch

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