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Most Foul
The tragic murder of actress Rebecca Schaeffer in 1989 brought
home the horrors of stalking to a shocked public. Schaeffer, a
successful young actress who was pursued obsessively by her killer
for three years prior to her death, was fatally shot in front of
her West Hollywood home ‒ her killer had retrieved her
address from records at the California Department of Motor
Vehicles.
The murder, along with a spate of stalking attacks that occurred
around the same time, inspired a groundswell of anti-stalking
legislation. The wave started in California and spread nationwide;
within three years of the first California bill's passing in
1990, every state in the country had passed some sort of related
legislation.
