10 Musicians Who Survived Assassination Attempts

This is a very strange one, involving a very disturbed stalker. He was a pest control worker by the name of Ricardo López.

López had been obsessed with Icelandic singer Bjrok since 1993 and sent her numerous fan letters. As time went on he made the predictably creepy decision to document his deluded and obsessive fantasies in multiple video diary entries. When Bjork started a relationship with musician Goldie, López became infuriated and decided to kill her.

López’s final video diary entry shows him preparing to go to the post office with a package to be sent to Bjork. The package contained a letter bomb with a booked rigged with sulphuric acid that would ideally kill or at least disfigure her when she opened it, which police were luckily able to intercept.

The second part of the video is most distressing of all. López returns from the post office, removes all of his clothes, shaves his head, paints himself red, then, whilst Bjork’s music plays, screams “This is for you” and promptly blows his brains out on camera.