The Jenny Jones Show was a daytime talk show that ran from 1991 to 2003. After a benign beginning, the show descended into the "trash TV" genre by focusing on scandalous subjects for their entertainment value. In 1995, 24-year-old Jonathan Schmitz was shocked to find that his friend Scott Amedure had a secret crush on him- in front of a studio audience, while the tape was rolling. Three days later, he shot and killed Amedure. Schmitz used the "gay panic" defense at his murder trial. The facts of the murder itself were not in dispute, but how culpable was The Jenny Jones Show? Schmitz was humiliated, but was he ambushed? Not surprisingly, there were other cases of crime and death associated with tabloid TV in the 1990s, and while that particular kind of show has mostly gone by the wayside, other TV shows are making bank on drama concocted on the backs of everyday people.