After the short interaction on the doorstep, Bardo walked to a diner and ate breakfast. The man, Robert John Bardo, had traveled 500 miles from Tucson, Arizona to West Hollywood to see Schaeffer. She said to the man, “Please take care,” shook his hand, and closed the door. Schaeffer smiled sweetly and told him she needed to get ready for an appointment. Schaeffer’s card to him read, “Yours was one of the nicest I ever got.” The man on her doorstep was carrying a bag containing a copy of the book The Catcher In The Rye, an autographed photo of Schaeffer, and a card he had received from her in response to a letter he had written. When the doorbell rang, Schaeffer rushed downstairs, but she was not greeted by the courier she was expecting. Schaeffer was auditioning for the part of Mary Corleone, Michael Corleone’s daughter a role that would surely change her career. She awaited the delivery of The Godfather III script which she would be reading before Academy Award-winning director Francis Ford Coppola. Rebecca Schaeffer paced her West Hollywood apartment on her final morning, July 18, 1989. ABC News segment on Schaeffer’s tragic demise.
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