There will always be people who get a thrill out of killing someone well known. This particular crime gives them instant notoriety and public recognition. But there are also those who murder celebrities because they have been involved with them in some way.

In June 1906, New York high society revelled in the salacious details of a murder in the city's fashionable roof top theatre in Madison Square Garden.

Harry Thaw, the 35-year-old playboy heir to a railway fortune, had walked up to Stanford White, a well-known millionaire architect, and shot him dead in full view of dozens of people.

Before Thaw married his 21-year-old actress wife Evelyn Nesbit, she lived with White, who had plucked her from the chorus line when she was only 16. Evelyn told Thaw she had been cruelly abused by White. Thaw, who was himself a violent man, now wanted to take revenge. At his later trial for White's murder he was found not guilty but insane and confined to an institution.

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Infamous Murders now examines three more modern celebrity killings. The first involved the brutal slaughter of the actress Sharon Tate in her own home.

The second killer cut down Gianni Versace, one of the world's most famous fashion designers, on the steps of his Miami mansion.

The third battered his playwright lover to death with a hammer then committed suicide with a drug overdose.