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* Music/{{Prince}}: The TitleTrack to ''Music/SignOTheTimes'' lists off a number of real news stories that Prince saw in the ''Los Angeles Times'' and ''Minneapolis Star Tribune'' while flying from California to Minnesota in the aftermath of a 1986 earthquake in Oceanside. These stories included the worsening AIDS crisis, UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan's Strategic Defense Initiative[[note]]a plan to create satellites with death rays attached to intercept nuclear missiles, commonly known as Star Wars[[/note]], and a murder by a street gang known as the Disciples.
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** The kidnapping and exchange of a child for profit, who turns out to be dead while the kidnappers disappear with the money, is taken from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Marion_Parker the 1927 abduction of Marion Parker]] and, to a lesser extent, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindbergh_kidnapping Charles Lindbergh Jr. in 1932]]. Like Marion, who was tossed from a moving car, Charlie's body is exchanged in a way (streetcar transfer) that helps aid their escape; similarly, like multiple theories about the Lindbergh baby's death, [[spoiler:his abductors killed him by accident and panicked]].
** Law enforcement's handling of the case is similar to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Collins the 1928 disappearance of Walter Collins Jr]]. The LAPD, searching for five months, failed to produce the boy (who was most likely killed); facing intense public scrutiny, they attempted to gaslight the mother into accepting a similar-looking child who said he was Walter, and then had her briefly committed to a mental institution when she wouldn't cooperate.[[note]]These events were dramatized in the Creator/ClintEastwood film ''Film/{{Changeling}}''.[[/note]] Here, they go even further, slut-shaming Sarah and accusing Matthew of masterminding the abduction himself in lieu of any evidence. [[spoiler:The "changeling" aspect comes with Sister Alice "resurrecting" Charlie; even though the second baby looks little like him, Emily accepts it because of how desperately she wants her son to be alive again.]]
** Sister Aimee Semple [=McPherson=], like Sister Alice, was also implicated in an abduction -- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Aimee_Semple_McPherson her own]], which was alleged by the L.A. district attorney to be a publicity stunt, and was sensationalized by the press as a cover-up for a possible love affair or abortion. Though the charges were dropped due to lack of reliable witnesses for the prosecution, the scandal would permanently damage [=McPherson's=] public reputation.
** The kidnapping and exchange of a child for profit, who turns out to be dead while the kidnappers disappear with the money, is taken from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Marion_Parker the 1927 abduction of Marion Parker]] and, to a lesser extent, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindbergh_kidnapping Charles Lindbergh Jr. in 1932]]. Like Marion, who was tossed from a moving car, Charlie's body is exchanged in a way (streetcar transfer) that helps aid their escape; similarly, like multiple theories about the Lindbergh baby's death, [[spoiler:his abductors killed him by accident and panicked]].
** Law enforcement's handling of the case is similar to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Collins the 1928 disappearance of Walter Collins Jr]]. The LAPD, searching for five months, failed to produce the boy (who was most likely killed); facing intense public scrutiny, they attempted to gaslight the mother into accepting a similar-looking child who said he was Walter, and then had her briefly committed to a mental institution when she wouldn't cooperate.[[note]]These events were dramatized in the Creator/ClintEastwood film ''Film/{{Changeling}}''.[[/note]] Here, they go even further, slut-shaming Sarah and accusing Matthew of masterminding the abduction himself in lieu of any evidence. [[spoiler:The "changeling" aspect comes with Sister Alice "resurrecting" Charlie; even though the second baby looks little like him, Emily accepts it because of how desperately she wants her son to be alive again.]]
** Sister Aimee Semple [=McPherson=], like Sister Alice, was also implicated in an abduction -- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Aimee_Semple_McPherson her own]], which was alleged by the L.A. district attorney to be a publicity stunt, and was sensationalized by the press as a cover-up for a possible love affair or abortion. Though the charges were dropped due to lack of reliable witnesses for the prosecution, the scandal would permanently damage [=McPherson's=] public reputation.
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* The Music/WeirdAlYankovic song "Headline News", a parody of Crash Test Dummies' "Mmm mmm mmm mmm", contains verses relating to an American being caned in Singapore, the Nancy Kerrigan incident, and John Wayne Bobbitt.
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* The verse in Music/{{Rush}}'s song "Nobody's Hero" from ''Music/{{Counterparts}}'' starts "I didn't know the girl, but I knew her family, all their lives were shattered in a nightmare of brutality" refers to the family of one of the girls murdered by Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo. Meanwhile, the line "Hero -- lands a crippled airplane..." refers to the pilot who landed the United Flight 232 in Sioux City, Iowa using only the engines to control it after the flight controls failed, saving 185 of the 296 people on board.
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* The verse in Music/{{Rush}}'s Music/{{Rush|Band}}'s song "Nobody's Hero" from ''Music/{{Counterparts}}'' starts "I didn't know the girl, but I knew her family, all their lives were shattered in a nightmare of brutality" refers to the family of one of the girls murdered by Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo. Meanwhile, the line "Hero -- lands a crippled airplane..." refers to the pilot who landed the United Flight 232 in Sioux City, Iowa using only the engines to control it after the flight controls failed, saving 185 of the 296 people on board.
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* The French comic '' [[https://m.comixology.com/Carthago/comics-series/82798 Carthago]] '' is an amalgamation of various news stories and urban legends related to sea monsters—- for example, Major Bertrand seeing something so shocking underwater that he can’t share it with the world is based on [[https://www.sfgate.com/sports/amp/Mysteries-of-the-deep-at-Lake-Tahoe-2738671.php an urban legend about]] Creator/JacquesCousteau, while the megalodon attack on the trimaran ''Crazy Horse'' is based on [[https://www.sailing.org/news/13074.php#.X34t7yRq2Ec a real giant squid encounter]] by the crew of the trimaran ''Geronimo'', and we have an adaptation of [[https://northatlanticblog.wordpress.com/2014/10/20/did-the-u-28-see-a-sea-monster/amp/ the story of the “U-28 Monster” as well.]]
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* ''Series/ColdCase'': -- 'Lovers Lane' is about [[http://crimecrimecrime.blogspot.com.es/2006/04/stranger-next-door.html the Murder of Crystal Dawn Steadman]] meets the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_Killer Zodiac Killer]]
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* Jame Gumb in ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' is a [[CompositeCharacter composite]] of Ted Bundy's WoundedGazelleGambit tactics to abduct women; like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_M._Heidnik Gary Heidnik]] he keeps his victims imprisoned in a pit in his basement, and like Ed Gein, he uses their body parts for furniture and a [[{{Squick}} skin suit.]]
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* Jame Gumb Gumb/Buffalo Bill in ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' is a [[CompositeCharacter composite]] of Ted Bundy's WoundedGazelleGambit tactics to abduct women; like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_M._Heidnik Gary Heidnik]] he keeps his victims imprisoned in a pit in his basement, and like Ed Gein, he uses their body parts for furniture and a [[{{Squick}} skin suit.]]
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* Music/DepecheMode did a song in 1986 called [[Music/BlackCelebration "New Dress"]], where nearly every line was taken from an actual headline.
* "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Music/BillyJoel is made entirely of this, referencing headline events all the way from 1949, the year of Joel's birth, to 1989, the year of the song's release.
* The verse in Music/{{Rush}}'s song "Nobody's Hero" from ''Music/{{Counterparts}}'' starts "I didn't know the girl, but I knew her family, all their lives were shattered in a nightmare of brutality" refers to the family of one of the girls murdered by Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo. Meanwhile, the line "Hero -- lands a crippled airplane..." refers to the pilot who landed the United Flight 232 in Sioux City, Iowa using only the engines to control it after the flight controls failed, saving 185 of the 296 people on board.
* Music/{{Savatage}} based a RockOpera, ''Music/TheWakeOfMagellan'', on such events. One being the murder of reporter Veronica Guerin by drug lords. The second being the Maersk Dubai incident, were the captain of a freighter ordered discovered stowaways to be thrown overboard.
* The Music/WeirdAlYankovic song "Headline News", a parody of Crash Test Dummies' "Mmm mmm mmm mmm", contains verses relating to an American being caned in Singapore, the Nancy Kerrigan incident, and John Wayne Bobbitt.
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* Music/DepecheMode did a song in 1986 called [[Music/BlackCelebration "New Dress"]], where nearly every line was taken from an actual headline.
* "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Music/BillyJoel is made entirely of this, referencing headline events all the way from 1949, the year of Joel's birth, to 1989, the year of the song's release.
* The verse in Music/{{Rush}}'s song "Nobody's Hero" from ''Music/{{Counterparts}}'' starts "I didn't know the girl, but I knew her family, all their lives were shattered in a nightmare of brutality" refers to the family of one of the girls murdered by Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo. Meanwhile, the line "Hero -- lands a crippled airplane..." refers to the pilot who landed the United Flight 232 in Sioux City, Iowa using only the engines to control it after the flight controls failed, saving 185 of the 296 people on board.
* Music/{{Savatage}} based a RockOpera, ''Music/TheWakeOfMagellan'', on such events. One being the murder of reporter Veronica Guerin by drug lords. The second being the Maersk Dubai incident, were the captain of a freighter ordered discovered stowaways to be thrown overboard.
* The Music/WeirdAlYankovic song "Headline News", a parody of Crash Test Dummies' "Mmm mmm mmm mmm", contains verses relating to an American being caned in Singapore, the Nancy Kerrigan incident, and John Wayne Bobbitt.
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** "Bottomless" starts off with a murder that draws on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearson_v._Chung Pearson v. Chung "$54 million for misplaced pants" lawsuit]] before the murderer's crime is ''actually'' tied to tainted toothpaste sourced from China for a big box store in a spin on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal the 2008 Chinese milk scandal]].
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* ''Literature/UncleTomsCabin'' basically consisted of Harriet Beecher Stowe gathering together a whole bunch of stories of actual people who were actually enslaved, then changing the names and adding in a plot to tie it together.
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** Series 6 has the past racially motivated murder, contributed to by police corruption, of Lawrence Christopher, whose name and situation is highly reminiscent of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Stephen_Lawrence the racially motivated murder of Stephen Lawrence in 1993.]]
** It also has the the gangland murder of journalist Gail Vella in a manner reminiscent of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Dando Jill Dando]] (shot in the back of the head by an unknown man). All of this takes place against the backdrop of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Yewtree historic sex crimes perpetuated against kids in local authority care homes.]]
** Series 6 has the past racially motivated murder, contributed to by police corruption, of Lawrence Christopher, whose name and situation is highly reminiscent of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Stephen_Lawrence the racially motivated murder of Stephen Lawrence in 1993.]]
** It also has the the gangland murder of journalist Gail Vella in a manner reminiscent of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Dando Jill Dando]] (shot in the back of the head by an unknown man). All of this takes place against the backdrop of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Yewtree historic sex crimes perpetuated against kids in local authority care homes.]]
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* ''ComicBook/WonderWomanTempestTossed'' takes inspiration from the refugee crisis around the Mediterranean, youth activism and human trafficking of children in the United States. Laurie Halse Anderson was very candid about her inspiration, saying that when she was offered the book she knew instantly that she wanted to do something that let her write in reaction to a haunting image of a life preserver belonging to a deceased refugee child she'd seen in an article and to write something uplifting about how active teenagers have been recently as human rights activists.
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* ''Literature/TheHandmaidsTale'' essentially imagines that [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Revolution the Iranian revolution]] took place in Reagan-era America, and features {{expy}}s of Phyllis Schafly and the religious right during that period, including gay conversion camps and the anti-abortion movement.
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* ''Series/{{Succession}}'': The warring family are an amalgamation of the Murdochs (as they run a huge media and newspaper empire) and the Trumps (one member has designs on being president, Shiv resembles Ivanka Trump), but they also run theme parks and cruises that are heavily reminiscent of Ride/DisneyThemeParks and several high-profile controversies and speculations, such as [[https://www.clickorlando.com/news/2014/04/25/ex-disney-cruise-officer-i-was-ordered-not-to-report-molestation/ the possibilities of]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Rebecca_Coriam cover-ups occurring within.]]within]], especially in Season 2 when similar controversies become a major plot point.
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* The French comic '' [[https://m.comixology.com/Carthago/comics-series/82798 Carthago]] '' is an amalgamation of various news stories and urban legends related to sea monsters—- for example, Major Bertrand seeing something so shocking underwater that he can’t share it with the world is based on [[https://www.sfgate.com/sports/amp/Mysteries-of-the-deep-at-Lake-Tahoe-2738671.php an urban legend about]] Creator/JacquesCousteau, while the megalodon attack on the trimaran ''Crazy Horse'' is based on [[https://www.sailing.org/news/13074.php#.X34t7yRq2Ec a real giant squid encounter]] by the crew of the trimaran ''Geronimo'', and we have an adaptation of [[https://northatlanticblog.wordpress.com/2014/10/20/did-the-u-28-see-a-sea-monster/amp/ the story of the “U-28 Monster” as well.]]
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* The French comic '' [[https://m.comixology.com/Carthago/comics-series/82798 Carthago]] '' is an amalgamation of various news stories and urban legends related to sea monsters—- for example, Major Bertrand seeing something so shocking underwater that he can’t share it with the world is based on [[https://www.sfgate.com/sports/amp/Mysteries-of-the-deep-at-Lake-Tahoe-2738671.php an urban legend about]] Creator/JacquesCousteau, while the megalodon attack on the trimaran ''Crazy Horse'' is based on [[https://www.sailing.org/news/13074.php#.X34t7yRq2Ec a real giant squid encounter]] by the crew of the trimaran ''Geronimo'', and we have an adaptation of [[https://northatlanticblog.wordpress.com/2014/10/20/did-the-u-28-see-a-sea-monster/amp/ the story of the “U-28 Monster” as well.]]
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* ''Series/ColdCase"': -- 'Lovers Lane' is about [[http://crimecrimecrime.blogspot.com.es/2006/04/stranger-next-door.html the Murder of Crystal Dawn Steadman]] meets the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_Killer Zodiac Killer]]
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* Emma Donoghue has credited [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritzl_case Elisabeth Fritzl]] as the inspiration for ''Literature/{{Room}}'', but the story also bears a resemblance to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_Jaycee_Dugard#Pregnancy_and_children the kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard]], in that Ma's kidnapper is a total stranger who abducted her on the way to school, but like Elisabeth Fritzl, she lived in total captivity for years, and her child's whole life.
* Emma Donoghue has credited [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritzl_case Elisabeth Fritzl]] as the inspiration for ''Literature/{{Room}}'', but the story also bears a resemblance to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_Jaycee_Dugard#Pregnancy_and_children the kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard]], in that Ma's kidnapper is a total stranger who abducted her on the way to school, but like Elisabeth Fritzl, she lived in total captivity for years, and her child's whole life.
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* ''Film/ArlingtonRoad'': The protagonist's wife dies in a misguided bust on a compound that is essentially [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Ridge Ruby Ridge]], which is just the inciting incident that places her husband and son as next-door neighbors to [[spoiler:a family who commit crimes loosely based on Timothy McVeigh's.]]
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* ''Film/ArlingtonRoad'': The protagonist's wife dies in a misguided bust on a compound that is essentially [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Ridge Ruby Ridge]], which is just the inciting incident that places her husband and son as next-door neighbors to [[spoiler:a family who commit crimes loosely based on Timothy McVeigh's.[=McVeigh=]'s.]]
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Think RippedFromTheHeadlines meets JustForFun/XMeetsY.
You've heard of this sensational story. But, as you're watching, there is an additional element. It may appear in the case of a HalfwayPlotSwitch, or it may have been there from the very beginning. The key element is, rather than being merely VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory, you ''also'' recognize this from the headlines, just a separate one. It also need not be another particular crime, but a sensationalist topic that has gained a lot of press coverage. Very likely to involve NoCelebritiesWereHarmed and CompositeCharacter.
Please note that this is [[TropesAreTools not inherently negative]]. It ''can'' be a clever way of connecting multiple social problems in the same story, or simply a case of getting inspiration from more than on place, but it can be at its worst, evidence of IfItBleedsItLeads happening ''twice'' alongside WereStillRelevantDammit.
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!!Examples
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[[folder:Film - Live Action]]
* ''Film/ArlingtonRoad'': The protagonist's wife dies in a misguided bust on a compound that is essentially [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Ridge Ruby Ridge]], which is just the inciting incident that places her husband and son as next-door neighbors to [[spoiler:a family who commit crimes loosely based on Timothy McVeigh's.]]
* ''Film/VoxLux'' begins with ''UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}}'', and concludes with a beach-set shooting much like the 2015 Sousse attacks, while there's also a more than passing resemblance between washed up teen sensation turned dark and edgy adult singer Celeste and Music/BritneySpears.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* James Gumb in ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' is a [[CompositeCharacter composite]] of Ted Bundy's WoundedGazelleGambit tactics to abduct women; like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_M._Heidnik Gary Heidnik]] he keeps his victims imprisoned in a pit in his basement, and like Ed Gein, he uses their body parts for furniture and a [[{{Squick}} skin suit.]]
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/AmericanHorrorStory'' has a habit of doing this:
** ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryMurderHouse'' has all of the following take place in the same house: a UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} school shooting, which at least had something to do with the ghost of Nora, who was involved in a baby's kidnapping that closely resembles the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindbergh_kidnapping Lindbergh kidnapping]], and whose husband explicitly committed the Black Dahlia murder. Separate from all of this, a man also committed crimes that closely resemble [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Speck Richard Speck's]] although with two nurses rather than eight.
** ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryCult'' combines [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_clown_sightings the 2016 clown sightings]] with a lot of other cult stories: notably [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Solanas the life of Valerie Solanas and her attempted murder of Andy Warhol]], the Zodiac Killer [[spoiler:in this universe, Valerie Solanas was one of the Zodiac killers]], and UsefulNotes/CharlesManson.
* ''Series/ColdCase"': -- 'Lovers Lane' is about [[http://crimecrimecrime.blogspot.com.es/2006/04/stranger-next-door.html the Murder of Crystal Dawn Steadman]] meets the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_Killer Zodiac Killer]]
* ''Series/LawAndOrder'' named RippedFromTheHeadlines, so this should be expected.
** The EnfantTerrible murderer of "Killerz" is a composite of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Bell Mary Bell]], a young English girl who strangled two male toddlers as the killer herself did, and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Bulger the murder of James Bulger]], in that there were revealed to be two child killers, one "dominant" and one passive (although this belief has been disputed in recent years).
** "Gunshow" imagines if the Ecole Polytechnique murders had taken place in the US, with a US-specific gun culture.
** "Human Flesh Search Engine" managed the bizarre feat of being based both on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Carradine the death of David Carradine]] and criticisms levelled against [[Website/FourChan 4chan.]]
** "Fed" begins with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Bill_Sparkman the bizarre suicide based on Bill Sparkman's]] before dovetailing into [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy the undercover videotaping scandal of ACORN in 2009.]]
* ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'':
** "Monster" is an amalgamation of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Chambers_(criminal) the "preppie" murder]] (a teen boy murdered a classmate and was viewed as having gotten off lightly due to his perceived class status) before it turns out to also be based on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Park_jogger_case Trisha Melli/Central Park Five case]], where the brutal rape and near death of a woman in central New York led to the false convictions of several others, resulting in a repeat offender going uncaught for years.
** "Gemini" borrows a lot of features from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski the Unabomber case]], such as a popular police sketch that went viral before being ID'd by his own brother, and a schizophrenia defence that he refused, set against the actual story of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Preston_Haynes Jonathan Preston Haynes]], a white supremacist who killed a plastic surgeon and hairdresser to uphold Aryan ideals of beauty.
** "Sound Bodies" is the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustaf_Adolph_Lutheran_Church Gustaf Adolph Lutheran Church arsenic poisonings]] meets UsefulNotes/CharlesManson, as the crimes turn out to be perpetrated by a group of teenage girls acting for TheSvengali.
* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' has ''many'':
** For most of "Pure", it's an adaptation of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bernardo The Karla Homolka/Paul Bernardo case]], before its TwistEnding reveals that it was also ripped from the headlines of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Bobbie_Jo_Stinnett the Bobbie Jo Stinnett murder]], who was [[spoiler:murdered and had her baby cut out. The baby survived.]]
** ''Selfish" starts off being an episode about an irresponsible young mother who is reported for a "trunk that smells like death" by her own mother after her daughter goes missing, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Caylee_Anthony like the 2008 death of Caylee Anthony]]. It then ends up being about [[spoiler:whether or not people have the right to refuse to vaccinate their children.]]
** "Alternate" begins as a GenderFlip of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Milligan the Billy Milligan rapes]] before it's revealed that [[spoiler:it's also ripped from the headlines of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyle_and_Erik_Menendez the Menendez brother murders]], in which two brothers killed their allegedly violent and sexually abusive parents.]]
** "Babes" begins as a take on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloucester_High_School_(Massachusetts)#Teen_pregnancy_controversy 2014 "pregnancy pact"]] before it's revealed to actually be based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Megan_Meier the suicide of Megan Meier.]]
** "Intimidation Game" has a plot drawn from both the "[=GamerGate=]" controversy and the Isla Vista shootings. The episode title is also a play on ''Film/TheImitationGame'', despite that film having nothing to do with the episode.
** 'American Tragedy' combines the racism scandal of [[Creator/FoodNetwork Paula Deen]] in 2013 with the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trayvon_Martin 2012 Trayvon Martin shooting.]]
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* In ''VideoGame/LANoire'', every single case is based on or loosely inspired by a real-life Los Angeles case in the 1940s.
[[/folder]]
You've heard of this sensational story. But, as you're watching, there is an additional element. It may appear in the case of a HalfwayPlotSwitch, or it may have been there from the very beginning. The key element is, rather than being merely VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory, you ''also'' recognize this from the headlines, just a separate one. It also need not be another particular crime, but a sensationalist topic that has gained a lot of press coverage. Very likely to involve NoCelebritiesWereHarmed and CompositeCharacter.
Please note that this is [[TropesAreTools not inherently negative]]. It ''can'' be a clever way of connecting multiple social problems in the same story, or simply a case of getting inspiration from more than on place, but it can be at its worst, evidence of IfItBleedsItLeads happening ''twice'' alongside WereStillRelevantDammit.
----
!!Examples
[[foldercontrol]]
[[folder:Film - Live Action]]
* ''Film/ArlingtonRoad'': The protagonist's wife dies in a misguided bust on a compound that is essentially [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Ridge Ruby Ridge]], which is just the inciting incident that places her husband and son as next-door neighbors to [[spoiler:a family who commit crimes loosely based on Timothy McVeigh's.]]
* ''Film/VoxLux'' begins with ''UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}}'', and concludes with a beach-set shooting much like the 2015 Sousse attacks, while there's also a more than passing resemblance between washed up teen sensation turned dark and edgy adult singer Celeste and Music/BritneySpears.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Literature]]
* James Gumb in ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' is a [[CompositeCharacter composite]] of Ted Bundy's WoundedGazelleGambit tactics to abduct women; like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_M._Heidnik Gary Heidnik]] he keeps his victims imprisoned in a pit in his basement, and like Ed Gein, he uses their body parts for furniture and a [[{{Squick}} skin suit.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/AmericanHorrorStory'' has a habit of doing this:
** ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryMurderHouse'' has all of the following take place in the same house: a UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} school shooting, which at least had something to do with the ghost of Nora, who was involved in a baby's kidnapping that closely resembles the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindbergh_kidnapping Lindbergh kidnapping]], and whose husband explicitly committed the Black Dahlia murder. Separate from all of this, a man also committed crimes that closely resemble [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Speck Richard Speck's]] although with two nurses rather than eight.
** ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryCult'' combines [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_clown_sightings the 2016 clown sightings]] with a lot of other cult stories: notably [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Solanas the life of Valerie Solanas and her attempted murder of Andy Warhol]], the Zodiac Killer [[spoiler:in this universe, Valerie Solanas was one of the Zodiac killers]], and UsefulNotes/CharlesManson.
* ''Series/ColdCase"': -- 'Lovers Lane' is about [[http://crimecrimecrime.blogspot.com.es/2006/04/stranger-next-door.html the Murder of Crystal Dawn Steadman]] meets the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_Killer Zodiac Killer]]
* ''Series/LawAndOrder'' named RippedFromTheHeadlines, so this should be expected.
** The EnfantTerrible murderer of "Killerz" is a composite of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Bell Mary Bell]], a young English girl who strangled two male toddlers as the killer herself did, and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Bulger the murder of James Bulger]], in that there were revealed to be two child killers, one "dominant" and one passive (although this belief has been disputed in recent years).
** "Gunshow" imagines if the Ecole Polytechnique murders had taken place in the US, with a US-specific gun culture.
** "Human Flesh Search Engine" managed the bizarre feat of being based both on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Carradine the death of David Carradine]] and criticisms levelled against [[Website/FourChan 4chan.]]
** "Fed" begins with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Bill_Sparkman the bizarre suicide based on Bill Sparkman's]] before dovetailing into [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy the undercover videotaping scandal of ACORN in 2009.]]
* ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'':
** "Monster" is an amalgamation of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Chambers_(criminal) the "preppie" murder]] (a teen boy murdered a classmate and was viewed as having gotten off lightly due to his perceived class status) before it turns out to also be based on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Park_jogger_case Trisha Melli/Central Park Five case]], where the brutal rape and near death of a woman in central New York led to the false convictions of several others, resulting in a repeat offender going uncaught for years.
** "Gemini" borrows a lot of features from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski the Unabomber case]], such as a popular police sketch that went viral before being ID'd by his own brother, and a schizophrenia defence that he refused, set against the actual story of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Preston_Haynes Jonathan Preston Haynes]], a white supremacist who killed a plastic surgeon and hairdresser to uphold Aryan ideals of beauty.
** "Sound Bodies" is the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustaf_Adolph_Lutheran_Church Gustaf Adolph Lutheran Church arsenic poisonings]] meets UsefulNotes/CharlesManson, as the crimes turn out to be perpetrated by a group of teenage girls acting for TheSvengali.
* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' has ''many'':
** For most of "Pure", it's an adaptation of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bernardo The Karla Homolka/Paul Bernardo case]], before its TwistEnding reveals that it was also ripped from the headlines of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Bobbie_Jo_Stinnett the Bobbie Jo Stinnett murder]], who was [[spoiler:murdered and had her baby cut out. The baby survived.]]
** ''Selfish" starts off being an episode about an irresponsible young mother who is reported for a "trunk that smells like death" by her own mother after her daughter goes missing, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Caylee_Anthony like the 2008 death of Caylee Anthony]]. It then ends up being about [[spoiler:whether or not people have the right to refuse to vaccinate their children.]]
** "Alternate" begins as a GenderFlip of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Milligan the Billy Milligan rapes]] before it's revealed that [[spoiler:it's also ripped from the headlines of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyle_and_Erik_Menendez the Menendez brother murders]], in which two brothers killed their allegedly violent and sexually abusive parents.]]
** "Babes" begins as a take on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloucester_High_School_(Massachusetts)#Teen_pregnancy_controversy 2014 "pregnancy pact"]] before it's revealed to actually be based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Megan_Meier the suicide of Megan Meier.]]
** "Intimidation Game" has a plot drawn from both the "[=GamerGate=]" controversy and the Isla Vista shootings. The episode title is also a play on ''Film/TheImitationGame'', despite that film having nothing to do with the episode.
** 'American Tragedy' combines the racism scandal of [[Creator/FoodNetwork Paula Deen]] in 2013 with the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trayvon_Martin 2012 Trayvon Martin shooting.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Video Games]]
* In ''VideoGame/LANoire'', every single case is based on or loosely inspired by a real-life Los Angeles case in the 1940s.
[[/folder]]
