12 Notorious Murder Cases That Tore Hollywood Apart
4. Phil Hartman
Hi! This one's Phil Hartman. You may know him best from his roles in Jingle All The Way, So I Married An Axe Murderer and The Simpsons.
Hartman was an Ontario native who started his career with skits on Pee-Wee Herman, a character he helped create, Cheech & Chong's Next Movie, and a number of animated shows, including Scooby-Doo.
From there, his career blossomed and he appeared on Saturday Night Live before striking gold with The Simpsons (in which he played Troy McClure and Lionel Hutz), and various movies. Hartman's career was seemingly really hitting the ground when it came to a crashing halt.
Hartman was married to Brynn Omdahl in the late 80's, and the pair sired two children. Brynn developed a drug problem during the marriage and, on one fateful night in 1998, Phil told her he would divorce her if she took drugs again. A few hours later Brynn, high on cocaine, grabbed a .38 handgun and shot Hartman twice in the head and once in the side, while he slept.
That same night Brynn shot herself, leaving their two children parentless and Hollywood speechless. A horrible fate for a beloved actor.