Every year comes with its fair share of famous deaths (some of them even chillingly connected to other celebrities). Of course, at the end of the year, there's always the list of celebrities, movie stars, artists, and the like who have died — people whose deaths are extensively covered. Then there are particularly infamous deaths also making just as many headlines: O.J. Simpson dying at 76 in April 2024, for example, who was the center of the "Trial of the Century," when he was accused...
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Not all infamous people get the same sort of news coverage that someone like Simpson did upon their death. Rather, there are more than a few criminals and murderers whose deaths come and go with little more than a passing mention by news outlets. And some of them even carried a level of controversy with them into their deaths. Here are a handful of the infamous deaths of 2024 that you might not have heard of.
The idea of justice is an interesting thing, and according to research done with a group of three- and five-year-old children, the desire to see it done is something that humans were born with. A study published in 2015 (via ABC) came to the conclusion that even as children, humans were incredibly likely to reach out and help those who had been hurt by another, or had something stolen from them. They were also pretty highly motivated when it came to punishing those who had done something wrong, but overall, researchers came to the conclusion that problem-solving in early education might be more effective if more focus was put on helping the victim than punishing the perpetrator.
It's hard to deny that there's quite the fascination with serial killers. All you need to do is take a look at the plethora of related podcasts, books, documentaries, and movies — indeed any form of media — to see that. So, with that in mind, there's probably a pretty decent chance you've heard a whole lot about the various serial killers that have operated over the years: Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and the rest of the frankly disturbingly long list. There's plenty out there on the atrocious things that they did during their lives, or the scandalous series of events that came to pass even after they were caught and found guilty.
Death is a part of life, even for famous people. While they're immortal in the media, in real life, their lives come to an end just like ours. And much like us regular people, sometimes those lives end in ignominious ways, such as in jail after being convicted for a crime. You would think the perks of being rich and famous would be enough for them, and they would have no need to push things too far into the realm of the illegal, that living in a big house would mean they'd strive to stay out of the Big House. And yet, it's not like there's a shortage of celebrities who end up inside prison's brick walls.
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