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Some TV news interviews are so shocking, they're impossible to forget. Join us as we count down the most disturbing moments when live TV news interviews took a completely dark turn! We won't be including serial killers or murderers interviewed before being identified, as those already have their own lists. Which of these creepy TV moments disturbed you the most? Let us know in the comments!
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00:00The interview provides a glimpse inside the mind of a killer as he builds his story and his alibi.
00:05Take a look.
00:06Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're looking at times when live TV news interviews took a dark turn.
00:12We won't be including serial killers or murderers who were interviewed prior to being identified,
00:17since those already have their own lists.
00:19Knox is into some freaky sexual things.
00:23She tried to pull in Meredith, who was a staid, buttoned-up Brit.
00:27She wasn't into it, and it went wrong.
00:31O.J. Simpson's slow-speed chase interview
00:34It was the verdict that stunned the nation.
00:37O.J. Simpson not guilty of killing his ex-wife and her friend.
00:40If you were old enough to watch this go down live, it's seared into your memory.
00:45After Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman were murdered, Nicole's ex-husband and
00:50NFL Hall of Famer, O.J. Simpson, was the prime suspect.
00:54Simpson agreed to turn himself in, but instead, he and a friend took off down the L.A. highway
01:00in the friend's white Ford Bronco.
01:02The iconic image, broadcast to 95 million people across every television network.
01:08Down there on the ground is a white Ford Bronco.
01:11Because of Simpson's fame, every news crew with a helicopter followed that car as it crawled
01:17down the highway for hours.
01:19TV broadcasts all over the world were interrupted, and more people tuned in to watch than watched
01:24the Super Bowl that year.
01:26Simpson didn't talk much during the chase, but his few words clearly came from a man in
01:32anguish.
01:32You can't take this.
01:33Oh, yes, you can't.
01:35Don't do this.
01:35All I did was love Nicole.
01:37All I did was love her.
01:38Interview with Manti Teo about the catfishing scandal.
01:42He was the star player whose heartbreaking loss of his girlfriend just before a big game
01:48made national headlines and made Manti Teo the individual story of the college football
01:52season.
01:53If you're a younger viewer who enjoys watching Teo's NFL football commentary today, this story
01:59is going to blow your mind.
02:01Teo was a college football star who was either the victim or the perpetrator of a massive catfishing
02:07hoax, depending on who you believe.
02:09In September 2012, he claimed that his girlfriend had died of leukemia.
02:14Some reporters started digging and eventually found out this girlfriend never existed.
02:19Teo later admitted he'd never met her in person and that he'd been catfished for years.
02:24And according to the sports website Deadspin, which broke the story, Lene Kukua was a hoax.
02:30And the picture we all saw of her was actually another woman who was very much alive and says
02:36she doesn't even know Teo.
02:37All this led to a bizarre and uncomfortable interview with Katie Couric.
02:41As she presses him on his previous lies and contradictory statements, Teo is at times evasive
02:48and at other times defensive.
02:50This whole thing is extremely strange.
02:52Are you that naive?
02:54It depends how you look at it.
02:56Mike Tyson
02:56Again, we are so sorry we stole your tiger.
03:00Don't worry about it, man.
03:01Today, he's the funny guy who makes cameos in the Hangover movies.
03:05In the 90s, Tyson was a force to be reckoned with in the ring and a menace outside of it.
03:11Introducing the one and only Iron Mike Tyson.
03:16From domestic violence allegations to a sexual assault conviction, Tyson clearly had anger
03:23issues, and they were on full display during this short interview.
03:27Tyson had been suspended from boxing for a year and a half after biting opponent Evander
03:32Holyfield twice during his previous match.
03:35While promoting an upcoming fight against Francois Botta, Tyson lets expletives fly on network
03:41TV.
03:42He's rude and belligerent to anchor Russ Salzberg, who gets fed up pretty fast and ends the interview.
03:48You have a problem?
03:49Turn off your station.
03:50Amanda Knox's bizarre behavior.
03:53This is their theory, that you went in there for some kind of freaky sexual activity that
03:58went wrong and your roommate wound up dying.
04:01Fair?
04:01That's what they say.
04:02That's what it is.
04:03Forget the headlines.
04:04That's the truth of the proposition.
04:06In 2007, this college student went to Italy to spend a year abroad, and found herself in
04:12the middle of a nightmare.
04:13Less than two months after she moved into her flat, her roommate was found murdered.
04:18Knox's unusual behavior in the immediate aftermath of the crime was probably at least part of the
04:23reason she became a suspect.
04:25I was outside in that courtyard, and I was standing there looking lost.
04:29She'd just seen the bloody body of her roommate, yet news cameras caught her calmly kissing
04:35her boyfriend while the police investigated.
04:37Things apparently got worse at the police station.
04:40Officers reported that Knox did cartwheels and splits and sat on her boyfriend's lap.
04:45After years of trials, mishandled evidence, and wild police theories, Knox was eventually
04:51acquitted.
04:52But some people still have their doubts.
04:54It was inexplicable, the idea that she had been murdered.
04:57Kanye's TMZ interview
04:59If you've ever witnessed a friend experiencing a mental health episode, this interview will
05:04look awfully familiar.
05:06We don't know for sure what's happening here, but the video is disturbing to watch regardless.
05:10These are human beings.
05:12Even like with George Bush, people said, don't apologize.
05:14I'm like, wait a second, I just saw...
05:16It hardly even qualifies as an interview, since it's primarily West ranting for long periods
05:22of time at the TMZ newsroom, and getting into an argument with Van Lathan over West's
05:27support for Donald Trump.
05:28He bounces erratically from one topic to another, clearly agitated or excited, but never really
05:34making any coherent points.
05:36Knowing everything we know about Kanye's mental health now, this just looks like a man who
05:41needs help.
05:42Two days after I got off of opioids, and I was addicted to opioids, two days I got off
05:46of opioids, I'm...
05:49He had a similarly ranty interview with Piers Morgan a few years later, and even briefly
05:54walked out of that one.
05:55Interview adjourned.
05:56Love you.
05:58Piers Morgan's interview with Alex Jones.
06:00That we have all of these foreigners and the Russian government, the official Chinese
06:04government.
06:05Kanye's rants have nothing on Alex Jones.
06:08Whose idea was it to let this conspiracy nod onto regular TV?
06:13This was supposed to be a debate over gun control in the US.
06:16Alex Jones had started a petition to deport Piers Morgan back to England over Morgan's frequent
06:21comments about violent crime and the need for stricter gun laws.
06:25Morgan invited Jones onto his show to discuss the issue, but there was no discussion.
06:30The knife doesn't kill people.
06:31The gun doesn't kill people.
06:33Yes.
06:34Listen, do you understand?
06:36Jones just ranted for 15 minutes straight.
06:38He yelled at Morgan, mocked his accent, challenged him to a boxing match, and answered his questions
06:44with nonsensical, unrelated questions.
06:46Morgan is barely able to get a word in.
06:49We feel crazy just listening to it.
06:51Listen, that the so-called semi-autos that you talk about...
06:54Let's take a break.
06:55Let me come back.
06:55Again, you're not going to get our guns.
06:57Mann interrupts news report about women's safety.
06:59It was quite scary.
07:01This ITV news segment discusses the issue of women feeling unsafe in public, particularly
07:06at bars and nightclubs.
07:08The reporter meets with a woman and her adult daughter in a public park, where they share
07:12a story about the daughter nearly getting assaulted at a club when her mother was present.
07:17Sorry, love, we're just doing this thing for this charity.
07:20Can you give us five minutes?
07:22He refuses to leave so we can carry on filming.
07:24So for the safety of everyone involved, we leave.
07:27In the middle of the interview, a strange man plops himself down on the bench right between
07:32them.
07:33Despite them politely asking him to leave, he refuses.
07:36So they leave.
07:37It's an intimidation tactic that's familiar to many, many women.
07:41And it's scary to watch it play out in real time, on camera.
07:45We had to move because we didn't feel safe when that man came up to us and started threatening
07:51and intimidating us.
07:52Heartless reporter interviews man after crash.
07:56Imagine you're working near a busy road, and shockingly, you see a pedestrian get hit
08:00by a large truck.
08:02What would you do?
08:03If you're a normal person, you'd probably dial 911 or rush to see if you can help the
08:07man.
08:08If you're this reporter in El Salvador, you grab your microphone and camera crew and
08:13see if he's lucid enough to be interviewed.
08:15This clip made international headlines in 2016, and it's easy to see why.
08:20The man is on the ground, writhing in pain, barely able to speak.
08:25But the reporter sounds like she's chatting with visitors at the county fair.
08:29Some news outlets claim that the man was believed to have died shortly after the accident.
08:34David Horowitz is taken hostage.
08:36The man who had been permitted to watch the broadcast in the studio had given no indication
08:40of his intent.
08:41He had been sitting quietly until David Horowitz was ready to begin broadcasting his consumer
08:46segment.
08:47It started as an ordinary afternoon newscast, then turned into a hostage crisis, and briefly
08:53into a one-on-one interview between the reporter and the gunman.
08:57In August 1987, a strange man walked into the KNBC news studio in the middle of a broadcast,
09:03and held a gun to reporter David Horowitz's back.
09:07He handed Horowitz a piece of paper to read, and unsurprisingly, it was full of conspiracy
09:12theories about the CIA.
09:14But before he started reading, Horowitz's reporter instincts kicked in.
09:18He asked the man a few questions about himself, and learned his name was Gary.
09:23Whether the reporter was stalling for time, or trying to keep the man preoccupied,
09:27is unclear.
09:28But Horowitz's own calm in this situation is impressive to watch.
09:32Jerry Sandusky
09:33If you missed the news report about this scandal in the early 2010s, count yourself lucky.
09:39Sandusky was convicted last year of 45 criminal counts and is serving a 30-to-60-year prison
09:44sentence, all the while maintaining his innocence.
09:47Sandusky was a Penn State football coach and founder of a charity to support at-risk kids.
09:52Around 2008, some boys alleged that Sandusky had abused and assaulted them.
09:58Over the next few years, more victims came forward and shared stories of Sandusky abusing
10:04them repeatedly.
10:05In 2012, he was convicted on numerous crimes, and he'll be enjoying the hospitality of the
10:10Pennsylvania prison system for the foreseeable future.
10:13During the investigation, NBC dug up a truly disgusting 1987 interview with Sandusky.
10:19I enjoy being around children, I enjoy their enthusiasm, I just have a good time with them.
10:27In it, he talks about how much he loves working with kids, especially the trust he's able
10:31to build through his charity.
10:33Everybody needs people to care for them, sometimes they don't want it, sometimes they don't
10:37understand what you're trying to do, but they want to be disciplined.
10:40Which of these TV news interviews creeps you out the most?
10:43Let us know in the comments below.
10:50Please.
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