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Here’s a thread about murderers who appeared on television before they were caught.
Can’t find the footage but serial killer Dennis Rader, aka BTK, was interviewed by local news station KSN when he was a city code compliance officer.
Skylar Deleon was a child actor who appeared in commercials, as well as an episode of The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers in 1994. He’s currently on California’s death row for 2 BRUTAL murders and suspected in another.
Serial killer Herbert Baumeister being interviewed on his local news in Indiana. The property behind him is where police found the bodies of 11 men. After the discovery, Baumeister committed suicide. He’s suspected in more murders.
Founder of the Crips and executed death row inmate Stanley Tookie Williams on ‘The Gong Show” in the 70’s. Tookie was convicted of multiple murders
Convicted serial killer Edward Wayne Edwards on an episode of the game show “To Tell The Truth”. If you don’t know who this guy is, look him up!
This is probably the most well known example of this thread... Serial killer Rodney Alcala on an episode of “The Dating Game”
Serial killer Stephen Port in the background working in an episode of Masterchef UK. Port was convicted of poisoning 4 men.
On this episode of the Jenny Jones show Scott Amedure admitted to having a homosexual crush on acquaintance Jonathan Schmitz. Upon returning to Michigan, Schmitz murdered Amedure.
Joe Son, former actor and combat sports fighter/manager who conpeted in UFC 4, murdered his cell mate while serving a life sentence for raping and torturing a woman over a decade earlier. Here he is in the first Austin Powers film playing Random Task.
Debra Kincy does news interview after her neighbor was found murdered. Kincy was charged with her murder a few days later https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Woman-Gives-Interview-Day-Before-Shes-Arrested-for-Neighbors-Murder-336852301.html%3famp=y
A young Tim Mcveigh sits on the hood of his car outside of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco TX being interviewed by a reporter. Mcveigh will later commit the Oklahoma City bombing and become the worst domestic terrorist in US history. (I Couldn’t find actual news footage.)
Curtis Allgier appeared on the msnbc show ‘Lockup’ doing an interview from prison where he was serving a 104 month sentence for being a felon with a firearm. Later while in prison he disarmed a corrections officer and murdered him in an escape attempt.
‘Hiccup girl’ Jennifer Mee made the rounds on national news in 2007 for having a case of hiccups that lasted 5 weeks. In 2010 she lured a man into an alley for the purpose of robbing him and the man was murdered. She’s now serving life in prison.
Alaskan serial killer Robert Hansen and his bakery were featured on the local news in Anchorage Alaska prior to the knowledge that he had murdered 17 women. I can’t find the actual footage but here is a still shot from it. Hansen is on the left.
Ralf Panitz murdered his wife Nancy Panitz after an episode of the Jerry Springer show aired in which they were guests on the program. The topic of the show was secret love triangles.
Pro skateboarder Mark ‘Gator’ Rogowski on an episode of ‘Club MTV’ in the late 80’s. Gator committed an awful raped/murdered of a female acquaintance a few years later- for which he is still in prison for.
Susan Smith claimed to be carjacked with her children in the car. She plead for the safe return of her children through media. It was later found that she had actually murdered her kids.
Not sure if these aired on television or not but here are some music videos with convicted killer and cannibal Antron Singleton aka Big Lurch.
Angelo Speziale was one of the at-risk youth on the original “Scared Straight” film in 1978. He was on the 20 year reunion special in 1998, praising the program. In 2005 his DNA came up in a 30 year old cold case rape/murder.
NYC cop Louis Eppolito on the Sally Jesse Raphae show in 1992. Eppolito also portrayed “Fat Andy” in the 1990 film Goodfellas. Eppolito was convicted in federal court on 8 counts of murder among other charges committed for the New York mafia.
Andrew Moench appeared in this episode of 20/20 about the Straightedge lifestyle. Not long after, he was convicted of stabbing a 15 year old to death in an altercation on the streets in Salt Lake City, Utah
Ian Huntley murdered 2 young females a few weeks before he did this interview where he expressed concern for the victims. He was later arrested and convicted of the murders.
John William Cooper appearing on the game show ‘Bullseye’. At the time of this appearance Cooper had previously murdered 2 people and one month after this taping, Cooper murdered 2 more people.
Michael Alig on various 90’s talk shows. Alig murdered and dismembered his drug dealer Angel Melendez:
Ward Weaver gave an interview to a local news station about 2 missing girls. In the interview Weaver stands near a freezer where he kept their dismembered bodies. He also looks down at a block of concrete in his backyard that their bodies were under as he walks & talks.
Ricardo Medina, who played the Red Power Ranger in the 2002 television series “Power Rangers Wild Force”, stabbed his roommate to death with a sword during an argument in 2015.
Bertil Fox was a top ranked professional bodybuilder. He shot his ex fiancé and her Mother to death in 1997.
Arrest footage of serial killer Glen Rogers captured by local news agency.
Lloyd Avery II, an actor who was in the film Boyz In The Hood, committed a double murder years after the film was released. He was murdered by his cell mate in a Satanic Ritual in prison.
John Wayne Gacy on a news special in 1969 while serving time for Child sex offenses In Anamosa State Prison in Iowa.
Kai the hitchhiker, who went viral for this news clip, is now in prison for murdering a New Jersey Lawyer.
