• From a singer murdered by the president of her own fan club to ¬¬¬¬¬¬a woman
who killed her dog to get One Direction’s attention, we count seven fans who turned
into psychotic murderers!
7 • There’s usually no purer love than fan
love, but this batshit crazy One Direction fan proved you can definitely love something
too much.
This young woman was so desperate for her favourite boy band to follow her on Twitter
that she threatened to murder her own dog.
She sent pictures of herself pinning her pet Chihuahua down by the throat and said that
she would ‘break its neck’ if the band didn’t comply and follow her.
• One Direction probably gets 50,000 Twitter messages on a slow day (40,000 of them marriage
proposals!) so it’s unlikely anyone in the 1D camp saw the deranged demand, much less
responded to it.
Of course, Crazy Fan Lady took this as a rejection.
She told Liam she loved him via a tweet and enclosed a picture of herself crying and cradling
her dead dog.
• It’s possible this was a sick hoax, but regardless: she’s definitely one disturbed
individual – and that’s not even getting into her questionable taste in music.
Fellow One Direction fans labelled her a ‘psycho’ and told her to ‘burn in hell’.
They’ve officially kicked her out of the 1D fan club, which, for her, would be a fate
worse than death.
6 • Walking Dead fans are a lot like zombies:
they operate as a hivemind, some are a little slow and they chomp at the bit for updates
about their favourite show.
It turns out some even have trouble distinguishing fiction from reality, like this twenty-three-year-old
New Mexico man who murdered his own friend because he thought he was a walker.
• Damon Perry had been drinking heavily and binge-watching The Walking Dead with his
buddy, Christopher Paquin, when he suffered the murderous delusion.
According to Damon, Chris ‘all of a sudden changed into a zombie’ and tried to bite
him.
Using strategies from his favourite TV show, Damon fought back using his fists and the
tools he had on hand – a, um, microwave and an electric guitar…
• Damon was charged with murder and aggravated assault.
The Ricktatorship was always gonna be a bad influence…
5 • American sitcom My Sister Sam struggled
to get ratings during its two-season run.
But one person never missed an episode: psychotic fan Robert John Bardo, who was obsessed with
the show’s star, Rebecca Schaeffer.
• Robert was such a creeper that he hired a P.I. to find Rebecca’s home address, then
turned up at her apartment.
Rebecca graciously signed an autograph for him, but asked him to leave when he kept coming
back.
• Robert took this as a rejection and snapped.
He pulled a gun on Rebecca and shot her in the chest.
He was arrested soon after but Rebecca unfortunately didn’t make it.
She now stars in the great sitcom in the sky.
4 • Justin Bieber is a polarising pop star.
People either love or hate him, and plenty would probably like to cut off his balls – jokingly,
that is.
Well, convict Dana Martin would like to do it for real – and he’s a fan of the Biebs’
music.
• Dana Martin is serving a life sentence for the rape and murder of a fifteen-year-old,
but that didn’t stopped him from formulating a plan to castrate Canada’s most famous
pop star.
• Dana called Justin a ‘good-looking kid’ and admitted he wanted to go to bed with him.
He ordered his two associates to castrate Bieber with garden shears so that Dana could
keep his private parts as a souvenir.
• Fortunately, Dana’s hit men were arrested before they pull off their scheme – not
that they had a real shot anyway, given Justin’s permanently surrounded by about sixty security
guards.
3  It turns out you can’t trust anyone.
Not even the president of your own fan club.
That’s what the tragic death of Mexican-American singer Selena Quintanilla-Pérez teaches us.
 Selena was murdered by Yolanda Saldivar, the woman who ran both her fan club and clothing
boutique.
Yolanda was secretly obsessed with Selena and had a creepy shrine of her with posters,
candles and videos.
 She would’ve continued silently loving Selena from afar if she wasn’t caught embezzling
money from the fan club.
After that, Selena cut ties with her, Yolanda shot her during a final meeting to exchange
tax documents.
 Yolanda was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison.
2 • What do you get when you mix The Beatles,
Catcher in the Rye and mental instability?
One of history’s most devastating murders of a public figure.
Mark David Chapman was a former armed guard who completely idolised John Lennon.
He’d been briefly committed for hearing voices and attempting suicide, and always
carried the angsty teenager’s handbook: The Catcher in the Rye with him wherever he
went.
• In December 1980, Mark left Hawaii – one of the happiest places on Earth – to murder
John Lennon.
He waited all day outside Lennon’s New York apartment, clutching a loaded gun and his
copy of Catcher.
• When Lennon returned with Yoko Ono from a recording session, Mark casually approached
them and fired five shots.
Four of them hit Lennon, killing him instantly.
Rather than show signs of remorse, Mark stood around reading his book until police arrested
him.
1 • Don’t you hate it when your favourite
band splits up or changes styles?
It’s horrible, right?
But at least you know it isn’t justification to commit murder!
Apparently twenty-four-year-old Nathan Gale didn’t get the memo.
• The deranged fan broke into a club and shot Dimebag Darrell, the former guitarist
of metal band Pantera, because he didn’t like his new band.
Pantera was a huge deal in the Nineties, but split at the height of their popularity because
of drug problems.
Dimebag and drummer Vinnie Paul formed new band Damageplan, but Nathan couldn’t accept
this.
He was stuck in the past.
• During Damageplan’s performance, Nathan, who was outside, jumped a six-foot fence,
rushed in through a side door and shot Dimebag in the head.
The audience thought it was part of the show.
• Furious over the injustice of losing his favourite band, Nathan continued shooting
into the crowd, killing several innocent people.
He shot a roadie and took a hostage before an officer finally took him down from backstage.
What a piece of shit.