I have an obsession with the unattainable and I need to destroy that, which I cannot obtain for this list.

We'll be looking at cases in which well known public figures were killed by fans and obsessed stalkers.

What do you think about toxic fandom?

Let us know in the comments, Jesse James, a confederate sympathizer during the american civil war, Jesse James later found national recognition as an outlaw who robbed trains and banks.

He's all for me.

Stories of his crime spread from coast to coast, eventually reaching a young man from Missouri named Robert Ford, Ford met James when he was 18 and joined the diminishing James Younger Gang.

I can't believe I woke up this morning wondering if my daddy would loan me his overcoat.

Here it is just past midnight.

I've already robbed a railroad train.

I'm sitting in a rocking chair chatting with none other than jesse James.

However, Ford was eventually swayed by the $10,000 bounty that had been placed on James and Governor thomas T.

Crittenden offered ford a full pardon if he betrayed his friend and mentor.

So he did just that.

On april 3rd 18 82 as James was dusting a picture ford shot him in the back of the head.

Mikhail Lermontov, this famous and influential Russian author was a leading writer in the romantic movement.

While Lermontov is mostly remembered for his poetry, he was also a successful prose writer and painter.

My magnum office boric.

Everybody has one novel in them and this is mine.

In 18 41 Lermontov visited the city of pity.

Gorski and basked in his success.

While there he met his old school friend and admirer of his work, Nikolai Martynov.

Martynov even dressed and acted like one of Lermontov as characters and Lermontov teased him in response.

The teasing got so bad that Martynov challenged Lermontov to a duel.

He emerged successful and killed Lermontov on July 27, 1841.

Rebecca Schaeffer, a popular tv actress of the eighties.

Rebecca.

Schaeffer starred in the Cbs sitcom My sister Sam, which ran for two seasons from 1986 to 88.

Brandon asked you out on a date.

Yeah, Sam, that's hysteria.

It is.

I can't believe you actually thought.

He asked you out her work in the show attracted the attention of a 19 year old fan named Robert John Bardo obsessed.

Bardo began stalking schaefer and writing her numerous letters.

She responded to one of them by saying yours was one of the nicest that I got in Bardos.

Mind this letter in this picture confirms for him what he had been believing or hoping that she reciprocates these feelings for him.

After Schaefer appeared in bed with another actor in the movie scenes from the class struggle in Beverly Hills.

Bardo grew jealous and tracked Schaefer to her apartment using a detective agency Schaefer was visibly displeased and asked him not to come to her home after breakfasting at a nearby diner.

Barter returned anyway and shot her when she answered the door.

She was just 21 years old.

Mr Barlow stated, I forgot to give you something, withdrew a handgun from his way spanish shot her once in the chest.

Albert beau jungo, this soccer player from Cameroon played professionally from 2008 to 2014 and his death is shrouded in mystery on august 23rd 2014.

But Jungle was playing a home game with Js Kabylie.

The team lost.

So the home team fans were irate a problem around the world, but in North Africa in particular where things can get A bit passionate.

It's not, it's not something you can say.

It's often but it does happen as but jungle was leaving the field.

He was reportedly struck in the head by a projectile thrown from the stands.

A jungle suffered a traumatic brain injury and died just a few hours later, 24 year old who played for Js Kabil died after being hit by an object thrown from the stands losing while his side was losing at home.

It was announced he was pronounced dead after being take him to hospital.

This was the official story provided by Algerian authorities.

However, a Cameroonian pathologist named Andre Moon later told the BBC that but Jungles injuries suggested he'd been beaten regardless.

No one was ever charged for his death.

We will show him today how much we valued him.

It was the rising star of football in our country.

We lost a very good player and the nation is here to welcome him back.

Andres escobar.

Perhaps the most famous soccer player in Colombia's history Andres escobar was a great athlete and worked hard to promote a positive image of his country.

Columbia's Andres escobar was 27.

A respected and talented defender whose future had no limits.

Unfortunately one simple mistake cost escobar his life.

During the 1994 World Cup, Colombia was playing against the United States when escobar accidentally scored on his own net, which cost Colombia the game.

A few days later escobar visited a nightclub in Medellin where he was shot and killed in the parking lot.

The assailant Humberto Castro was a drug cartel bodyguard and driver escobar may have been killed on the orders of santiago Gaitan who had gambled on the game and lost big.

His nation mourned more than 120,000 people attended escobar's funeral.

Gianni versace.

The link between fashion designer Gianni versace and spree killer Andrew Cunanan is debated in 1997 Andrew and sent authorities on a frantic cross country manhunt as he drove state to state, killing four people along the way.

Ultimately arriving at Gianni versace is doorstep in Miami Marine Orth of vanity fair and various FBI agents claimed that versace and Cunanan met at a san Francisco nightclub back in 1990 however versace's family remains adamant that the fashion icon never met Cunanan in person or also claims that Cunanan often named dropped versace, proving some type of fandom or at least a dangerous obsession.

On july 15th 1997 Cunanan shot and killed versace outside of his Miami mansion.

It was 8 45 in the morning, he was walking home alone from the famous South Beach News cafe Journalist Maureen Orth, he just very boldly crossed the street, walked up right behind him and shot him in the head.

His true motive remains a mystery although some have theorized that he did it for publicity.

Christina, Grimmie.

This American singer rose to Internet fame, uploading cover songs to YouTube and eventually found success on the 6th season of the voice.

She finished in third place and signed with Island Records.

Grammy eventually caught the attention of a man named Kevin James Loibl, who developed an unhealthy fascination.

He traveled from ST Petersburg florida to Orlando as Grimmie was performing at the Plaza live, Grimmie was opening for the band before you exit in Orlando florida posting a call out on social media before the show, please come to the show.

If you live near Orlando florida after the performance, Grammy was signing autographs when she was shot by Loibl who took his own life shortly after Grimmie was rushed to the hospital but dead half an hour after the shooting following the news of her death, some of music's biggest stars finding ways to remember their friend Dimebag Darrell Darrell Lance Abbott was the famous guitarist of iconic heavy metal band Pantera.

The band saw great success in the mid nineties with their album far beyond driven, reaching number one in the United States.

He also played for the lesser known damage plan.

If y'all are number one, we're back with a damaged plan to blow it up everywhere while performing with his band.

On december 8th 2004, Abbott was shot by a fan named Nathan gale gale, shot several others to killing three and injuring a further three before being killed by a police officer.

When a gunman rushed the stage and shot him several times, three people, not including the gunman, died in the shooting.

The gunman was killed by police Abbott was pronounced dead at the scene and Gail's motive still remains uncertain.

Selena, an iconic latin artist.

Selena saw enormous success in the United States.

In fact, her posthumous album, dreaming of you as the highest selling latin album in american history as of 2022 having sold three million copies.

Her work reached the ears of Yolanda Saldivar who began a Selena fan club that eventually reached 5000 members.

She later became the manager of Selena's beauty boutique and salon business.

Selena etcetera.

However, Saldivar used both to embezzle tens of thousands of dollars.

In March.

Both he and Selena confronted Saldivar.

My last words were her was that I was going to go to the police to see what we could do.

Uh you know, to charge her with something.

She was stealing money.

This put a strain on Selena and Saldivar's friendship and business agreement.

On March 31st in 1995 Selena met with Saldivar at a Days inn and Saldivar shot Selena in the shoulder.

The bullet severed Selena's subclavian artery and she tragically died of blood loss.

Her whole world was walking out the door and she wouldn't stand for it.

So she shot her before we continue.

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If you're on your phone, make sure you go into your settings and switch on notifications, john Lennon, although a longtime fan of the Beatles.

Mark David chapman became enraged at what he saw as blasphemous statements made by singer, john Lennon, I'm not saying that we're better or greater or comparing us with jesus christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is.

I just said what I said and it was wrong chapman had become a born again presbyterian in 1971.

He also developed an obsession with the catcher in the Rye and wished to emulate its protagonist Holden caulfield by acting out against supposed phoniness probably angered at his phoniness.

I mean, I wasn't fuming, but I was saying what a fake he was.

What a phony he was After traveling to New York, Chapman, loitered outside Lennon's apartment complex on December 8, 1980.

He got Lenin's signature as he exited the complex, but when Lenin returned hours later, Chapman shot him from behind four times he walked past me.

I took five steps toward the street, turned Vought My Charter Arms 38 And fired five shots into his back.

Chapman spent the rest of his life behind bars, and as of 2022, has been denied parole 11 times.