Ricardo López (January 14, 1975 – September 12, 1996) was a Uruguayan-born American man who stalked and attempted to murder the Icelandic singer Björk.

López was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, and moved to Lawrenceville, Georgia, with his family at a young age, and began working as a pest exterminator.

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 his race.

On September 12, 1996, López mailed a letter bomb, rigged with sulfuric acid, to Björk's residence in London.

Hollywood police found his body and the videos four days after his death and contacted Scotland Yard, who located the bomb in a London postal sorting office.

Ricardo López was born in Montevideo, Uruguay,[2][3][4] on January 14, 1975, into a middle-class family, which moved to the United States and settled in Lawrenceville, Georgia.

However, he did not seriously pursue an artistic career due to his feelings of inferiority, and fear of being denied entry into art school.

"[7] López's diary grew to 803 pages, with passages about his thoughts on Björk and his feelings of inadequacy due to being overweight, his disgust and embarrassment about his gynecomastia, and his inability to get a girlfriend.

[6][7] He wrote that he considered himself "a loser who never even learned to drive" and complained about his menial job as an exterminator that earned little money.

Around that time he read in Entertainment Weekly that Björk was in a romantic relationship with another musician, the English jungle producer Goldie.

[5][6][10][11] López was angered by the perceived betrayal, and the fact that she was involved with a black man, writing in his diary: "I wasted eight months and she has a fucking lover.

"[13] López initially intended to construct a bomb filled with hypodermic needles containing HIV-tainted blood, which satisfied his desire to have a lasting effect on Björk's life.

[12] When he realized it would not be feasible to build such a device, López began constructing a letter bomb, comprising sulfuric acid in a hollowed-out book, which he planned to send to Björk's home in London, England.

While Björk's music played in the background, a naked López shaved his head and eyebrows and painted his face red and green.

[13] Police theorized that López intended to cover the sign with his blood and brain matter with the gunshot, but the gun was not powerful enough to cause that to happen.

"[12][14] The Broward County Sheriff's Office evacuated the building while the bomb squad searched for further explosives, and found none.

[14] After viewing López's final tape, police contacted Scotland Yard to warn them that the potentially explosive package was en route to Björk's residence in London.

[14][20] The package had yet to be delivered, and the Metropolitan Police intercepted it at a South London post office, after which it was safely detonated.

Saif decided to limit its availability as "I want to be there when people see the film, because there are all sorts of things about Ricardo López on the internet.