Trial Story - Robert Bardo (1993)
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- "The defendant is not a normal person."
That's an opinion straight from the mouth of the Honorable Dino Fulgoni.
It's Marcia Clark for the prosecution in the 1991 trial of Robert Bardo.
Bardo is charged with the July 18, 1989 murder in the first degree of actress Rebecca Schaeffer.
There was never any doubt that Bardo shot and killed Rebecca. This trial is to determine whether or not Bardo was sane at the time.
Bardo's defense lawyer, Stephen Galindo, who describes his client as "a victim of parental neglect," claims Bardo was suffering from "diminished actuality" at the time of the shooting and should not be found guilty.
Appearing as an expert witness for the defense is Dr. Park Dietz.
Fred Graham is the host.
If his brother was living in his own "world" why the hell would you get him a gun ????
@Nathaniel Harper yea, been using instaflixxer for years myself =)
Lyn idk,
@@nathanielharper944 I have Tubi. ☯
I agree with you there. A person needs to be of sound mental and physical health to handle a firearm safely. I also think that a person needs common sense and proper training to be able to own or purchase a firearm
AND he was underage
I did time with Bardo at Avenal State prison. In fact he was in the dorm next to mine. I remember he would wolf down chow hall food like it was his last meal on earth. He would try to spark up conversations with other inmates but mostly kept to himself. Never saw him get visitors or go to canteen.
He would attend church & bible studies.
I once saw him flip out because another inmate turned the channel on the day room TV while Taylor Swift was being interviewed on Extra or E channel. Can't remember.
Apparently he had an obsession with Taylor Swift.
This was just a few years ago.
I'm free now
Sober
Employed
Apartment
Grateful 🙏
Brought a gun when visiting. No premeditation there at all.
With a forehead like that only God knows what's in it
He’s horrendous to look at. 😂🤢🤮
@@angelwings7930he looks like a real life Trevor Philips
He has a cro-magnon head.
A forehead as big as a drive-in movie theater.
@@ClintScottFischer 🤣😂🤣
Very strange man. When he inappropriatley starts nodding and jiving to music in court shows how detached he was from his surroundings.
Yup, just like Diane downs
He. Seems like he has schizophrenia I know a guy like him very disturbed
Obviously this guy is mentally challenged.
Well…. crazy people are often obviously crazy. “Strange”, that’s an understatement. Obviously he’s criminally insane.
@@angelwings7930 no, he was not criminally insane and your statement demonstrates that you lack understanding of what it means. The test for criminal insanity is a legal one, not a psychiatric one, and slightly varies by jurisdiction. However, even under the broadest test, it requires a defendant’s mental illness to make it impossible for them to know they were committing a crime or illness or to understand that their actions were morally wrong. Bardo knew what he was doing was wrong, he was not unable to control his actions, and he knew the nature of his actions and what the result would be.
You can see his brain is just mash, there is nobody home there.
Absolutely 💯
I agree. Not all his dogs are barking.
Sandwich short of a picnic.
A fukn nutter
42:25 schizophrenic and at one point you can see him try to snap out of it but he couldn't. He was a ticking time bomb. Frontal Lobe disorder. I am curious about if he was on any meds or was he undiagnosed? People also failed Robert not just Rebecca. He really needed mental help bigtime. I used to work in a mental hospital with people less ill than him. And as he describes the murders its as if he is excited. Its giving him dopamine and serotonin when he speaks of her thats how deep he is disturbed. I wonder what his life is now. In prison rotting away looking out a window and it probably does not bother him. Complete sociopath and psychopath. He needed to be taken out of society a very long time ago. He murdered her because he thought she went from good girl to bad. He could not discern what reality was. In his own world very lonley and detached. It was premeditated murder in my opinion. He sought out to harm her because SHE REJECTED HIM at the doorway as well. Never let this disturbed man out of prison. 15:00 his brother who knew he was mental bought the gun because Robert was jumped and his 33:35 his dad took him to the bus station. Wow 34:45 his mom whoa never saw this 37:00 wow listen to Roberts letters. Twisted. Robert also stalked his teacher up until she dissed his brother. 40:00
Thank you! Not enough people talk about his mental illness so many people dropped the ball. They should have taken his behavior seriously long before any of this happened. He should have been institutionalized! He should have never even gotten to a point of stalking or making anyone feel uncomfortable.
Her poor parents having to sit through this with him right there
Dude was creepy af .so sorry to rebecca and her parents. Guy was a sicko
This was a woman who was going places and that freak took it all away now spending 30 birthdays in prison with no one to celebrate
If u look at it in this respect, the 2 are the spectrums of life in this country and the results of worship of unrealistic Hollywood fake shit, no offence to her one bit, I was 15 then n we all took this pretty hard. So talented. He was so ill. Duality.
I agree! She was going places!!🙏🏾
He looks schizophrenic
He like me fr
I learned forensic psychiatry at USC from the late Judge Fulgoni when he was a DA. He knew psychiatry better than any attorney I ever met.
Anyone can look and see this guy ain't rap to tite! He shouldn't have been no where near a gun much less in possession of one! My heart goes out to Rebecca's family. This young woman was successful and had her whole life ahead of her, "WHAT A WASTE"
The Bardo family could have prevented this. It's unfathomable that they did nothing.
The only one that did something was his sister. She called her local precinct about what he told her about being a block away. But it still wouldn't have saved her.
Jack Egger's anecdote about driving Bardo back home after the first WB visit because he wanted to spare him the embarrassment of a long bus ride with an oversized teddy bear and flower bouquet was touching. I've been on the same WB lot twice and, while staff was generally courteous and professional, I can't fathom seeing that kind of compassion from them.
Dr. Dietz = The Iceman interview.
Marcia Clark = O.J. Trial.
your forgot dr lee = The Staircase Michael Peterson murderof his wife
When they played that song that's what that lady meant when she saw him walking and nodding his head.
Nice trial ... Justice was served to Rebecca..
No one should get life without
sure bout that..?
I still think that this murder was premeditated. Robert Bardo knew who Rebecca was. He paid someone to find out where she lived. He was even able to find someone to get him a gun. I think that his defense attorney was trying to find a way to get Robert Bardo off of the hook. I think that he was looking for excuses to cover up or condone this young man's actions
Since when has mental illness been synonymous with stupidity or lack of capacity for forward planning?
I mean, he hunted her down at her house & brought a gun. Case closed. Classic stalker whose behavior escalated to violence. Defense attorneys get paid to drum up reasonable doubt but this one falls flat.
The judge agreed
I guess I missed the part that would otherwise explain why he carried a .357 with him to the apartment, even after talking about it in advance (in Tucson) and being discouraged from doing so.
What do you mean you “still think”? Obviously it was premeditated. All the evidence made that clear. Wtf. Did you actually think the defense attorney might have had a point ? Or it was kinda 50-50 ? 😂😂😂
She dies and he gets to live it's not fair to the victim or her family.
I admire the skills of the typist or whatever her title is.
That’s the Court Reporter. They are the heroes of big trials!
@@kdfulton3152 I'm with you. their heroes like firefighters. ☯
but cmon, yer ignoring the sensational late 80s 'dos..wow, time warp!
she is a ""stenographer""
@@robosborne5489 I'm a dishwasher, and yesterday I played plumber. ☯
I’m so glad this is online. Thank you.
What a pair of brothers..
I don't think his brother had any part in planning the murder but hes not smart. he gave him a gun and he knew where he was heded
I can't stopping looking at his head, whats going on with it, it's damn odd! 😱
Now this is a great show they should bring back.
youre life that empty, huh..?😏✋
@@Betrayerslayer yes! 😆
@@codyclaeys2008 don't feel bad. When I watched this trial,I took notes.
She woulda soared after GF III. Perfect for her. A good movie btw.
I don't think she would have gotten it. FF Coppola gave the role to his daughter and I think she would have gotten it regardless. I think she would have gotten another series of which she would have been the star and probably would have been a successful TV actress.
@@mrchopsticks3 No she wouldn't have gotten the role. It's a bit ironic that the character of Michael Corleone's daughter Mary was shot to death like Rebecca was in real life. But I imagine the script had been written already.
She would have sucked at the role. She also looked NOTHING like an Italian. Not really. Not even blonde Italians. She was fairly inexperienced, and didn’t have the chutzpah for it.
She looked perfect for that role.
@@thomasmaggio1718yeah. if Rebecca Schaeffer has not died on screen(natural, vehicular accidents or getting stabbed/shot) in her previous roles, her portrayal of Mary Corleone could have been the first time that she died on screen
Justice was served
Brilliant prosecution...
spare me🤣
@@Betrayerslayer Is this OJ?
great channel and content!
Thank you.
Just seeing him sitting there really enrages me snuffed her life out for no reason besides being a clown
They could show old movies on his forehead
Damn Robert got a big ass head 😂
You got that right..... Damnit boy!!
He looks like a real life Trevor Philips
He had arrived armed!!!
Point blank! It was planned💯
Duhhhhhhhh ? Did you really get caught up in the dumb defense arguments ??? Naturally they make excuses. No one with any intelligence takes the defense attorneys seriously though.
I think that this young man got exactly what he deserved for killing Rebecca Schaeffer
This is the most infuriating trial I've ever heard
The family, private investigator, the defense psychiatrist and that monster are all absolutely infuriating.
54:50 "Robert Bardo is also a victim" quote by defense attorney
His family considered it normal to fly out to la to go see celebrities?!
The P.I. thought it was normal to request an actress' address?!
Psychologist speaks as if the monste was entitled to this woman. Its bizarre
49:00 the doctor states Rebecca was annoyed from her shower being interrupted as if being STALKED is not a legitimate reason to be annoyed.
It was premeditated because his sister said he wrote a tombstone with her birth year and the day he was gonna kill her it’s not like he just did it spur of the moment
It's scary because he could of had an obsession with anybody. It could happen to you. Crazy creepy man
not me. im not famous. and im a guy.
This documentary doesn't mention that Rebecca responded to a fan letter form Bardo by saying something like, "This is the sweetest letter I've ever received." He took this a sign that she loved him. Bardo blamed her for the murder, sayin celebrities should not communicate with their fans this way.
True. He was angry at her because in his demented mind she went from good girl to bad girl.
I'm not saying you're condoning him killing her(at least I hope you're not) but her responding to his letters and taking more mature rolls does not give him the right to kill her.
@@playkma 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. I’m glad you cleared that up.
I heard that it wasn't even her that personally wrote it. It was something that an assistant wrote because she was getting tons.
Should put investigators on notice that helping a stalker is a possibility, are you money hungry enough to dismiss this responsibility ???
marcia clark before oj's trial the following year was the murder
No, this trial was in '91. OJ's murder trial began in '94.
boy that defense lawyer had the impossible task... then again, it seemed, so did johnny cochran
1:10:25 Convicted
This guy was failed as a child. Pretty sad he didn't get the help he needed, maybe Rebecca would be alive today if he did.
He must have been well off with alot of time on his hands..just study his habits..the rest of us have to work!
I miss the original court tv! Thanks for this!
You're welcome. Thanks for commenting.
Great channel u should look into the Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena murders
Bardo is not a "victim" and that's offensive to all stalking victims. The overwhelmingly male sense of entitlement that leads stalkers to hunt down and kill their victims is not a mental illness but a result of social conditioning & most importantly, a choice.
Women have stalked too.its not a 'male' thing only.
Your comment needs to be reported 'cos it's misandrystic!
@@scotsman6712 care to share the names of any female stalkers who murdered their target? Even just one!
@@scotsman6712 That's very true. It's a mental disorder not a male disorder.
@@scotsman6712 Possibly, but it's primarely men who do this. The small nr of women who did this/do this is negligible.
The bullet caused a large defect in the heart about 2 inches, nearly obliberating most of the right side of the heart. ☯
She was shot at point blank range with a hollow round from a .357. Its amazing she lived as long as she did.
Just terrible, unbelievable.
@@mrchopsticks3it's sad that she had to die just so legislators can take stalking seriously. Even if she survived the shooting, I can't imagine her sporting the gunshot scar on the part where she got shot
I’m not going to try to color outside the lines. Obviously, Bardo was a nutcase. But he’s exactly where he belongs for the rest of his life. He would do it again if he were released. I wonder if he is cognizant of his actions in regards to right or wrong that would prevent him from doing it again.
Makes me wonder if Robert bardo's brother edward is still alive or not
The mother is partly responsible for his issues and probably the father to.
@Oscamazya why do you blame the mother and only “probably the father to [sic]?” Because you think mothers bear more responsibility for parenting? Newsflash-this isn’t 1950. Don’t blame it all on the mother. Bardo’s mother was mentally ill, something she couldn’t help, while his father was an alcoholic and reportedly an abusive POS.
His family should tell her family I am so sorry because she was one child they have.
😂😂
This guy was sico the courts were so weird back then he should get the chair no matter who mental ill he is. He was not crazy he was playing crazy in the court cause he knew he was fucked. He is just evil
Uh, no he’s pretty crazy.
@@angelwings7930 just evil,not really legally insane. You can have a mental disorder, but in effect it doesn't really mean you don't know wrong from right. He knew killing was not ok, that's why he kept everything a secret.
Catcher in the rye & copying Arthur Jackson (private detective) is not only proof of premeditation, it’s proof of being a copycat killer 2.
Robert was sick Robert was so excited why ?🤣.
Brother gets crazy boy a gun
Robert should tell Rebecca mom and dad I am so so sorry if I couldn't take it back I will😊😊. Make her mom and dad 😊 happy.
that video was so disturbing
Bardo family say I am so sorry.
Miss Marcia=b4 the great OJ money
O.J. Money? You do realize that she’s a public prosecutor and her salary isn’t affected by which cases she tries?
Marcia Clark, you go lady!
face pulled tighter then a knot in a board.
a person that knows NOTHING about mental illness.
Yep...Go on to lose the OJ trial...
Thank you for your uploads.
You're welcome. I appreciate the feesback.
He was guilty because his sister said she saw a drawing of a tombstone in his room with her date of birth in it and the day he was gonna kill her on it
42:30
He was so disturbed good God
Even Bono of U2 says that he and the band’s music were not responsible for the poor choices and actions RJB made in the killing of Rebecca Schaeffer and that music was simply a form of entertainment. Not that he was being ignorant of what had happened here, I’m sure Bono and the rest of U2 wouldn’tve liked their music mis-interpreted for the wrong reasons. Just like how Judas Priest had no idea that two kids blew their heads off with a riffle, with one kid killing himself on the spot, the other committed suicide by overdose later on.
47:00
Anyone think she would’ve survived if she didn’t answer the door or he would’ve broken in, otherwise? 🧐
Who knows? An obsessed person is not easily put off. He would have tried to find some other way to her.
@@denisesurber8176like Robert bardo could have broken the glass on the door using either a lead pipe, a hammer, a sledgehammer or a baseball bat.
@@99mrpogi That's right. Obsessed people do not give up.
@@denisesurber8176 yeah. Can't Imagine how Rebecca Schaeffer would be able to defend herself if Robert bardo is armed with a gun and as well as a Baseball bat/lead pipe or sledgehammer. It would also be a worse case scenario if Robert Bardo is armed with a knife or a machete
@@99mrpogi Yes. That's true.
*"MY SISTER 'BAM'"*
If you’re going to attempt an off-color joke, at least attempt to make it funny.
@@BimBop83
humor, like most things, is completely *subjective*
Not funny....