On January 2007, 28‑year‑old Jennifer Strange, a mother of three, tragically died after participating in a KDND radio station contest dubbed “Hold Your Wee for a Wii,” in which contestants consumed excessive amounts of water—up to around two gallons—without relieving themselves. Her death was caused by acute water intoxication.

In January 2013, 75-year-old retired barber Stanwood Elkus walked into Newport Beach urologist Dr. Ronald Gilbert’s office under a false identity and fatally shot him ten times in an ambush—purportedly stemming from a decades-old grudge

Sarah Grace Patrick allegedly shot and unalived her mother, Kristin Brock, and stepfather, James Brock, while they slept in their Carrollton, Georgia home.

George Reeves, the star of Adventures of Superman (1952–58), died in his Los Angeles home, from a single gunshot wound to the head. With the official ruling being suicide, his death sparked controversy fueled by inconsistencies such as missing fingerprints on the gun, no powder residue on his hands, a spent cartridge found beneath his body despite witnesses reporting only one shot, and accounts of multiple shots heard that night . At the time, Reeves had recently been engaged to Leonore Lemmon, and rumors linked him to affairs—most notably with Toni Mannix, whose husband Eddie Mannix was a powerful MGM executive rumored to have ties to organized crime 

Bryan Christopher Kohberger, a 28‑year‑old former criminology PhD student, brutally stabbed four students in their off‑campus home near the University of Idaho

Nancy Campbell‑Panitz appeared on a May 2000 episode of The Jerry Springer Show alongside her ex-husband Ralf Panitz and his new wife, aiming for reconciliation—but was met with audience jeers and emotional humiliation. Just hours after the episode aired and shortly after she secured a restraining order against him, Ralf murdered Nancy in her home.

In December 1985, authorities in Georgia discovered the carcass of a 175‑lb black bear in the Chattahoochee National Forest after it had ingested cocaine—estimated between 40 plastic containers of the drug—dropped earlier that year by smuggler Andrew C. Thornton II from his plane during a failed smuggling run.

In May 2013, Tim Lambesis, frontman of the Christian metal band As I Lay Dying, was arrested in Oceanside, California for attempting to hire a hitman to murder his estranged wife Meggan, allegedly motivated by disputes over custody and financial settlement

Erin Patterson, a 50‑year‑old Australian mother of two, was convicted in July 2025 for murdering three of her estranged husband’s relatives—his parents, Don and Gail Patterson, and his sister Heather Wilkinson—by serving them beef Wellington laced with lethal death cap mushrooms at her home in Leongatha, Victoria

In California, former Westminster police officer Nicole Brown, 39, is accused of faking a severe concussion from a 2022 on-duty incident and collecting over $600,000 in full disability payments while publicly enjoying an active lifestyle—ski trips, Disneyland visits, 5K races, and partying at the Stagecoach music festival