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From: Elizabeth Whitaker <>
Subject: Re: [APG] California DMV records
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:47:41 -0500
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Thanks for the actress' na mes as well as the
correction on the date.

I don't know why I was so far off on the date
range.

This was an exceptionally tragic case.

Elizabeth Whitaker

Drew Smith wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Elizabeth Whitaker <> wrote:
>> I believe current DMW records for California
>> would be unavailable to anyone outside law
>> enforcement as someone used access to
>> California DMV records to track down a young
>> actress and kill her. I don't remember her
>> name, but this was in the early 1980s and the
>> young actress played Pam Dawber's character's
>> younger sister on a TV series.
>
> Rebecca Schaeffer, who was murdered on July 18, 1989. Her killer had
> purchased her address via a private investigator, who had obtained it
> from California DMV records.
>
> Regards,
> Drew Smith
>

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