Rebecca Schaeffer, who had recently starred in the CBS sitcom My Sister Sam and was allegedly in the running for the lead in Pretty Woman, was murdered at her Los Angeles home on July 18, 1989, by a stalker.
Fifty years later, the Manson "family" murders remain seared into the collective memory of Los Angeles. The question, which persists to this day, is why?
I turned 10 years old in the summer of 1969, a year like no other in terms of all the incredible things that happened over the course of that single 12-month period.