Scottish drifter Arthur Richard Jackson hired a private investigator to track down the home address of Saldana.
The private investigator found Saldana’s mother’s unlisted phone number.
Hollywood actress Theresa Saldana was stabbed by an obsessed stalker. (Nine Archives)Jackson then called her mother telling her he was director Martin Scorsese‘s assistant and needed Saldana’s address. She gave it to him.Jackson had become obsessed with Saldana after seeing her in the movies Defiance and Raging Bull.
On the front lawn of her home Jackson confronted her and stabbed her repeatedly in the chest with a hunting knife.
The impact was so great the blade bent.
But Saldana survived the attack.
A nearby deliveryman rushed to her rescue.
Jackson was jailed for 14 years, with extra time added after he threatened Saldana from behind bars.
He was extradited upon release to the UK, where he was tried for a different murder. He died behind bars.
Theresa Saldana played herself in a movie about her stabbing. (Orion Television)
Saldana later relived the incident in a TV movie named Victims for Victims: The Theresa Saldana Story.
The movie inspired another stalker to hire a private investigator to track down sitcom actress Rebecca Schaeffer.
For $US250, the private investigator agency found her address from Department of Motor Vehicles records and gave it to him.
After doing so, the 19-year-old stalker shot and killed Schaeffer in 1989.
Rebecca Schaeffer was stabbed to death by a crazed stalker who had hired a private investigator to find her address on July 18, 1989. (Nine Archives)
Schaeffer had answered the front door to a stranger because she was expecting to receive a script.