As long as there have been songs, there have been songs about people dispatching other people to meet their Maker. Some genres have all but cornered the market on it: Country's rife with love-scorned murder ballads, and hip-hop's body count rivals some wars. Then there's death metal -- a musical subset so obsessed with slaying that it had to be disqualified from our countdown for fear it would entirely consume the list.

'Stan'
--Eminem (2002)

Victims: Superfan Stan and his pregnant girlfriend
Weapons: A thousand pills, washed down with an alcohol chaser
Gory Details: When adoration turns into obsession, Stan kills three people -- including his not-so-smart self. In the prelude to their deaths, Stan's final fan letter becomes a suicide note -- one that was ultimately never sent, as his car plummets into the water while he's writing it. Good thinking.