Murder Made Me Famous

TV’s Breaking Bad is infamous for violent scenes that are so heartless, they have you peeking through your fingers! In the second episode, “Cats in the Bag,” Aaron Paul’s “Jesse Pinkman” disposes a body in a tub full of acid. For Spokane...

Inspired by the Hannibal TV series and The Silence of the Lambs horror franchise, a real life “Hannibal Lecter” sets out to find human victims as his appetite for human flesh increases.

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Sir Anthony Hopkins’ chilling cannibal in The Silence of the Lambs spawned a Hollywood horror franchise. But the macabre gentleman-killer also inspired 14-year-old Florida boy, Michael Hernandez, to develop a dark obsession with serial...

Brad Pitt and Edward Norton form an underground fight club to counter their boredom and discontent with life in Fight Club. The film inspired Australian cousins Tony Bagnato and Diego Carbone to join a real-life Fight Club hoping to have...

Martin Scorsese’s film, Casino, takes us back to a time when Las Vegas was still the “wild west” and the mob ran gambling and damn near everything else in sin city. Vegas-teen Matt Baker watched Casino over and over again, trying to mimic...

Robert De Niro and Ray Liotta grew up to be mob-murderers in Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas.But for one New Jersey man named Joe Post, the fictional characters became his inspiration. Joe joined the “Pit Bulls,” a gang of local drug addicts...

Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis are two attractive serial killers who take their crime spree on the road in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers. But for two troubled lovers, Natural Born Killers inspired them to become the film's...

Quentin Tarantino is affectionately known as “The Master of Suspense” for his movie scenes that depict excessive violence and cutthroat retaliations. One English fan, 16-year-old Allan Bentley from the Liverpool, drew inspiration from Tarantino’s...

Richard Speck always believed he would shock the world and make headlines. He did just that when he systematically tortured, raped, and murdered eight student nurses from South Chicago Community Hospital on the night of July 13–14, 1966....

The killer that brought New York City to its knees; David Berkowitz went on a yearlong murderous rampage killing six people in 1976. He mostly targeted long-haired brunettes, leading many women in New York City to cut and dye their hair...