Name: Murder Made Me Famous
Uploaded: 2025-05-03T02:00:32.000Z
Description: An in-depth look at killers who gained public notoriety when their crimes received media attention.

An in-depth look at killers who gained public notoriety when their crimes received media attention.

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Sex, jealousy and obsession fuel a national media fixation on Jodi Arias, who in 2008 savagely murdered her ex-boyfriend, 30-year-old motivational speaker Travis Alexander.

Jodi Arias

The 2002 disappearance of 27 year-old, pregnant Laci Peterson ignites a national media firestorm when her handsome young husband, Scott, becomes the prime suspect.

Scott Peterson

The 1989 slaughter of Hollywood media mogul Jose Menendez and his wife becomes a national media event when the couple's two privileged young sons confess to the murder.

Menendez Brothers

A Bolingbrook, Illinois police sergeant bathes in the media limelight after he becomes a suspect in the drowning murder of his third wife, Kathleen Savio and the disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy Cales Peterson, in 2007.

Drew Peterson

The horrific crimes of charismatic law student Ted Bundy - who killed at least 36 young women - grip the nation in the 1970s and give birth to the term "serial killer."

Ted Bundy

A look at Dutch citizen, Joran van der Sloot, the last person to see 18-year-old Natalee Holloway while she was on a graduation trip to Aruba in 2005.

Joran Van Der Sloot

The horrific murder of 24-year-old Gregg Smart becomes a national media event when details emerge about his wife's affair with the 15-year-old killer.

Pamela Smart

The 1980 murder of Scarsdale diet doctor Herman Tarnower shocks the nation. His lover and headmistress of a prestigious girls' school are arrested and convicted in a sensational trial in the suburbs of New York City.

Jean Harris

Con man Joe Hunt forms an investment club with wealthy young men who trust him with their families' money. The Ponzi scheme leads to murder when Hunt gets involved with Ron Levin, a notorious con man, himself.

Billionaire Boys Club

The partially clothed body of pretty, 18-year-old Jennifer Levin is discovered on the Upper East Side of Manhattan's Central Park. The chief suspect is handsome 19-year-old Robert Chambers, who blames Jennifer for her own death.

Robert Chambers

In 1969, nine people are killed by a notorious cult leader with mostly female followers living in a commune.

Charles Manson

The 2005 murder of young photographer Teresa Halbach shocks the central Wisconsin community of Manitowoc County. A grisly crime scene of her burned bones is discovered at the family auto salvage business of Steven Avery.

Steven Avery

Jim Jones was the cult leader of the Peoples Temple. Known for his extreme beliefs on Christianity, socialist politics, and racial equality, Jones is infamous for the mass murder-suicide he led of over 900 of his followers in Jonestown, Guyana.

Jim Jones

"Angry Betty" Broderick is the former suburban housewife who skyrocketed to fame when she murdered her ex-husband and his new wife in their bed in 1989. Was she a woman wronged or just a jealous ex-wife hell-bent on revenge?

Betty Broderick

The "Craigslist Killer" - aka Philip Markoff - prepared for a promising future, but Markoff had a dirty secret. He would set up appointments with women offering erotic services on Craigslist in order to rob them, with one encounter ending in murder.

The Craigslist Killer

Former high-profile real estate tycoon, and star of HBO's The Jinx, Robert Durst first gained the media's attention with the disappearance of his wife in 1982. A continuing spiral of murder followed Durst through 2015.

Robert Durst

Two cousins terrorized Los Angeles between 1977 and 1978. A spree of kidnappings, rapes, and murders in the area claimed the lives of 10 people. Because the bodies were usually found on hillsides, the "Hillside Strangler" name was born.

The Hillside Strangler

The "Playmate Killer," Paul Snider, was the ex-husband of Playboy M=model Dorothy Stratten. Snider was one of the creators of Chippendales, the male strip club chain, but he is most remembered as the killer of Stratten.

The Playmate Killer

Known as the Teflon Don because charges against him would never stick, John Gotti was a crime boss that ruled the streets of New York as head of the Gambino family from 1985 to 2002. Gotti was eventually sentenced to life in prison in 1992.

John Gotti

As the leader of the Branch Davidians religious cult, David Koresh became highly known for leading his "Army of God" in a 51-day standoff against the Federal Government that resulted in the deaths of four ATF agents and over 80 Davidians.

David Koresh

Blinded by her obsession for a man who wasn't interested in women with children, Susan Smith did the unthinkable; pushing her car into a lake, killing her two young sons.

Susan Smith

In the span of only two years, Richard Ramirez became known as the "Night Stalker" for breaking into the homes of over 13 people in Los Angeles and viciously raping, torturing and often times, performing Satanic rituals on many of his victims.

The Night Stalker

With estimates that run as high as 130 murders, Rodney Alcala's ruthless spree of murder, rape, and sexual assault throughout the 1970's didn't stop him from being a contestant on the TV show The Dating Game in 1978.

The Dating Game Killer

On one tragic afternoon in 1995, the Queen of Tejano Music, Selena Quintanilla, was inexplicably shot down by the president of her fan club, Yolanda Saldivar, in a Corpus Christi hotel.

Murder Made Me Famous

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