When a celebrity dies, it's easy to wonder, why am I grieving?

Sadness can be expected, but if you never knew this person, why such a deep emotional response?

It's deep because, like family and friends, they've actually left an impression on your

life without needing to even know you exist.

A song they sang, a sport they played, a TV show or a movie they were in.

These things are attached to memories in your real life.

This countdown of celebrity deaths is even more devastating.

Because it wasn't just losing someone we were a fan of, it was someone ripped from us

in a horrific way.

And when I reveal who landed at number one, you'll all gasp knowing how shocking their

murder was to the whole world.

Hey all you weirdos, welcome to Crime Countdown, a Spotify original from Parkast, I'm Ash.

And I'm Elena.

Every week we'll highlight ten fascinating stories of history's most engaging and unsettling

crimes, all picked by the Parkast Research Gods.

This episode we're counting down the top ten shocking celebrity assassinations.

So two huge celebrity deaths in my world, in particular at least, were David Bowie and

Chester Bennington, as I'm sure you know.

Oh definitely.

But David Bowie, I remember this so vividly, because it was reported that he had passed

away and it was in the middle of the night where I was, and I was nine months pregnant

with twins.

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