Murders Caused By Television Shows: # 3 Scott Amedure And The Jenny Jones Show.

Scott Bernard Amedure

He was generous to a fault, he took in several homosexual friends with AIDS, caring for them when others had shunned them.

Scott was born on January 26th, 1963 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania to a local tractor-trailer driver named Frank and a housewife named Patricia Graves Amedure. In 1970, his parents divorced and Scott lived principally with his father, as did his three brothers and one sister. When he was 17, he quit high school to join the Army, where he finished his GED and was trained in satellite communications. While assigned to Germany, he learned to ski, and broke his leg while skiing in Switzerland. After three years, he received an Honorable Discharge, with the rank of Specialist. After working several years in technical communications and telephone type jobs, he became a bartender, because he enjoyed working at night. 

On March 6, 1995 and Scott came in to tape an episode of the Jenny Jones Show entitled "Same Sex Secret Crushes." None of the guests were told the title of the show or what it was about until they were on stage. Scott was encouraged to share his sexual fantasies to the host and audience about his crush named Johnathan Schmitz. Scott left the stage, so they could surprise Johnathan. Only knowing that someone had a secret crush on him and with the producer of the show hinting around it was a woman, Johnathan walked onto the stage. When Scott came out, the two friends shared a quick hug, before the host, Jenny Jones, shared the fact that Scott was Johnathan's admirer. Scott then laughed nervously as said that he was completely heterosexual. 

After the taping the two went out drinking together and an alleged sexual encounter occurred.

Three days after the taping of the show, Johnathan found a sexually suggestive note from Scott at his house. After finding the note, he withdrew money from the bank, purchased a shotgun, and then went to Scott's mobile home. He had a conversation with Scott about the note which lead to an argument. Johnathan then returned to his car, took his gun, and returned to Scott's trailer. He then shot Scott twice in the chest, killing him. Johnathan left, called 9-1-1 and confessed to killing Scott.

Johnathan was arrested and found guilty of second degree murder. He was sentenced to 20-25 years in prison. He appealed and his sentenced was overturned. He then had a retrial and was found guilty a second time. Johnathan was released from prison on August 22, 2017.