Stalker Arthur Richard Jackson, a Scottish drifter, saw an American starlet in a two 1980s movies, and became obsessed with her. So he emigrated to the United States just to be close to her. Also, so he could he kill her. In accordance with some twisted logic that made sense to him if not to anybody else, that would tie them together until the end of time. Below are thirty things about that and other scary historic stalkers and killers.
The Starlet and the Scottish Drifter
In the early 1980s, a Scottish drifter named Arthur Richard Jackson grew obsessed with Theresa Saldana (1954 – 2016), a starlet he saw in the movies Raging Bull and Defiance. So in 1982, he decided to move to America so he could “be close to her”. And by close to her, he meant murder her, and then get executed for the crime. In his warped stalker mind, he thought the two of them would thus be together for eternity in the afterlife.
Jackson wasted no time when he got to the US to try and find Saldana. He hired a private detective to gather any available information about the object of his obsession. The detective found the address for Saldana’s mom, so the Scottish drifter called her, and impersonated an agent of Martin Scorsese. He claimed that the famous director wanted to get in touch with Saldana to discuss a potential movie role. Naively, mom gave him her daughter’s West Hollywood address.