Rebecca Schaeffer 1987

Rebecca Schaeffer had starred in her own sitcom and had a promising career ahead—but all it took was one encounter with a stalker to ruin everything.


April 23, 2026 | Quinn Mercer

Rebecca Schaeffer had starred in her own sitcom and had a promising career ahead—but all it took was one encounter with a stalker to ruin everything.


Rebecca Schaeffer had it all going for her. She’d starred in her own successful sitcom and was about on a film career. But Schaeffer had a problem: she was too kind and too trusting. She cared enough to answer her own fan mail personally—and one disturbed fan took this the wrong way. 

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