Robert J. Bardo early artwork of a Teddy Bear handed to Rebecca Schafer before shooting her from 1997Robert John Bardo (born January 2, 1970) is an American man serving life imprisonement without parole after being convicted in October 1991 for the July 18, 1989, murder of American actress and model Rebecca Schaefer , whom he had stalked for three years.
Weegee–real name Arthur Fellig–was New York City’s finest crime photographer, with his photos of fires, dead bodies and other city mayhem worthy of any tabloid. Listening to his police scanner, Weegee would sit and wait patiently every night for the seedy side of New York City to show her grizzly face before beating the police to the scene of the crime in order to snap a shot.