Netflix’s latest true-crime series debuted this week by re-examining the so-called “talk-show murder” in 1995 and the role London native’s Jenny Jones’s TV show may have played in the homicide.The new series, called Trial by Media and executive-produced by George Clooney, sets to explore the impact of the media in six high-profile cases, including the slaying of Scott Amedure.Amedure, 32, was shot and killed by then 24-year-old Jonathan Schmitz three days after Amedure confessed during a taping of The Jenny Jones Show that he had a secret crush on Schmitz.
The episode was taped but never aired, and Schmitz was aware of the “secret crush” premise, but surprised it was a man.Jones, who grew up in London, was the host of the daytime tabloid
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