Ricardo Lopez aka "Björk stalker" (found video diary/death footage of pest control officer; 1996)
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Ricardo Lopez (now infamously known as the ’Bjork stalker’) was a pest control officer who lived in Hollywood, Florida. He rose to notoriety in late 1996 after creating an acid dispensing device disguised as a promotional package and mailing to Icelandic singer Bjork, with whom Lopez had an unhealthy obsession. On the 12th of September, 1996, after mailing the deadly device, Lopez shot himself in the head while listening to Bjork's cover of the 1941 love song "I Remember You"; Lopez had recorded roughly 20 hours of video diary footage from January 14th, 1996 (his 21st birthday) up until (and including) his suicide, documenting his reasoning behind the attack, the process of creating the device and giving insight into his life and mind in general. In addition, he also kept a physical diary, which, by the time of his death, had passed 800 pages and which can be seen several times throughout his recordings.
For quite some time following the incident, DVD copies of the complete recordings were made discreetly available for purchase from the Hollywood Police Department, although they eventually ceased to provide them for reasons unknown. In years passed, a handful of snippets from the footage had come to light in the form of two separate documentaries on the subject (each running roughly 1½ hours, one of which included the uncensored suicide footage, which had, notably, been leaked online beforehand, albeit in low quality), although the complete footage remained unattainable for the vast majority of people, until late 2013, when Lost Media Wiki user bun39 obtained encoded .mp4 copies of the tapes and proceeded to send them to Lost Media Wiki staff member Gavin aka glbracer to upload to YouTube, which he did from early January through early February of 2014 (also providing mirrors of the tapes in a variety of video formats).
UPDATE 09 Jan '14: Huge thanks to bun39, who has been in contact with someone who owns the full 18 hours, and, of course, to said anonymous source. As they will be uploaded in hourly installments, stay tuned to this announcement for future videos. You can see the YouTube playlist below, (uploads courtesy of glbracer), which will be updated as new footage emerges.