The murder of Scott Amedure occurred on March 9, 1995, at his mobile home in Lake Orion, Michigan.

He utilized the gay panic defense, in which he claimed that he killed Amedure over embarrassment about the revelation of a same-sex crush.

[5] According to the testimony at the murder trial, three days after the taping, Amedure left a "suggestive" note at Schmitz's house.

[7] After finding the note, Schmitz withdrew money from a bank, purchased a shotgun, and then went to Amedure's mobile home.

[10] Schmitz was found guilty of second-degree murder in 1996 and sentenced to 25–50 years in prison, but his conviction was overturned on appeal.

[12] In 1995, Amedure's family filed a negligence lawsuit against The Jenny Jones Show, Telepictures, and Warner Bros.

Represented by Geoffrey Fieger, Amedure's family alleged that producers of the show "ambushed" Schmitz through the revelation of a same-sex crush and that they should have known the segment would result in violence.

[16] The court held that The Jenny Jones Show were not liable for Schmitz's subsequent actions, which they deemed "unforeseeable".

[18] In 2021, the controversy was covered in season 6 of the series How It Really Happened on the US TV network HLN in an episode titled "The Jenny Jones Show: Fatal Attraction".