Ricardo López (stalker)

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Ricardo López (January 14, 1975 – September 12, 1996) was a Uruguayan-American man known for stalking and planning an acid attack against Icelandic singer Björk via letter bomb, while videotaping himself in his apartment for months before committing suicide by gunshot on camera. López was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. He moved to Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States, with his family at a young age, and began working as a pest exterminator. He had poor self-esteem, was socially reclusive, and eventually developed an obsession with Björk in 1993. Though he did not hope to be sexually intimate with her, he was particularly angry over her brief relationship with the English jungle producer Goldie, due to him being mixed-race. Over the course of nearly nine months in 1996, he made video diaries about her and other topics, at his apartment in Hollywood, Florida. On September 12, 1996, López mailed a letter bomb, rigged with sulfuric acid, to Björk's residence in London. He recorded a final video...

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