History Main / JoggersFindDeath

* This is sadly, the likely fate of [[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1294488 Tera Smith]], a 16-year old girl who went for a run on the evening of August 22, 1998. . . and has never been seen again.

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* In ''[[Film/{{TheDevilsAdvocate}} The Devil's Advocate]]'' [[spoiler: Eddie Barzoon]] falls afoul of the main antagonist. When [[spoiler: Eddie]] goes for a jog in the park it provides the perfect opportunity for two of [[spoiler: John Milton]]'s homeless [[{{Mook}} mooks]] to beat the poor schmuck to death.

* It happens an episode of ''Series/{{Degrassi}}: The Next Generation''. Sean runs over a jogger.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' episode "Secrets", a woman jogging at night is accosted by a bunch of thugs. Fortunately, Artemis and Zatanna are patrolling that night.

* As shown in the page image, ''WesternAnimation/StreetSharks'' has the four presumed-dead protagonists dumped in a storm drain to hide their bodies, where they're found by a jogger.
* Parodied in a ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' sketch that was a ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'' spoof with chickens.

* ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan:'' One issue has a woman out jogging in New York ''at night'' when she hears someone moving in a bush in Central Park. It's [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} Eddie Brock]], who proceeds to eat her.

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* This happens at least once in ''Literature/TheSavannahReidMysteries'' books.
* The opening of Richard Harris' novel and film ''Literature/{{Fatherland}}'' in which a Waffen-SS soldier out on a morning training run by a Berlin lake discovers the corpse of a retired high-ranking Nazi who has been murdered. Played with a bit, as it's implied that "jogging" was just a cover story and he was ''really'' up to something the Reich has strong opinions about, a fact the protagonist uses as leverage to get him to reveal a few extra details... And then the hapless young soldier gets abruptly reassigned to an extremely undesirable post occupied Russia, apparently with the specific intention of making sure he can't talk about what he saw, which becomes a RevealingCoverup.

* Highly {{Downplayed|trope}} in ''The Backyard Knows'' arc of ''Literature/TanteiTeamKZJikenNote''. Aya observed somebody dumping trash into Wakatake's school's yard from the ''outside'' while she was jogging, hence confirming Wakatake's complaint a day before.

* It happens an episode of ''Series/{{Degrassi}}: The Next Generation''. Sean runs over a jogger.
* The pilot episode of ''Series/{{Grimm}}'' kicks off with a creature eating a jogger.
* This is occasionally how ''Series/LawAndOrder'' gets from StartToCorpse.
** Subverted in ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' episode "Signature". There are two bodies at the crime scene, a tortured women and a guy in a jogging suit. Initially everyone thinks the jogger was some innocent guy who stumbled on a SerialKiller and got killed for it. Then it turns out he ''is'' the serial killer.
* In ''Series/TheSopranos'' episode "[[Recap/TheSopranosS1E13IDreamOfJeannieCusamano I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano]]", Mikey Palmice is killed while jogging.

* In a fake commercial on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', a jogger is running in Central Park and runs into a tunnel. Suddenly, his feet are glued to the ground and he can't lift either of them. As he looks around in horror, he sees another jogger struggling on the ground against the glue and in another spot, a skeleton wearing jogging clothes. As the screen fades to black, the jogger falls over struggling himself. The product: Black Flag Jogger Motel. The tagline: ''Joggers jog in, but they don't jog out.''
* Several ''Series/{{Monk}}'' episodes and novels have played with this trope: a few times when bodies are found in parks or rural areas, mention will be made to a hiker or jogger finding the body. In the novel ''Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu'', one serial killer preys on female joggers.

* In ''Series/BeingHuman'', a vampire mentions attempting to eat a jogger. It was thwarted when the jogger [[BadassNormal fended the vampire off with a lead pipe]].

* ''Series/CSICyber'': "Fit-and-Run" opens with a young female jogger running through the park at night. She becomes the VictimOfTheWeek when she is run down by a car. It is later revealed that the killer was using her fitness app to track her.
* In ''Series/{{YOU}}'' [[spoiler:Joe attacks Peach while she's jogging]].

* ''Series/{{Harrow}}'': "Aegri Somnia" ("Hallucinations") opens with a woman jogging along the beach in North Queensland. She finds a damaged Parks and Conservation boat washed up on the sand and, when she looks behind it, the BodyOfTheWeek, which has been gnawed on by sharks.

* Happens in ''Manga/DetectiveConan'', sometimes. Usually, when the murder takes place somewhere open, and if it's not the protagonist(s) who discover the body first.

** Around 2016 and '17, a new activity made headlines for this: ''VideoGame/PokémonGO'', which had the added bonus of making sure [[HarmfulToMinors it was mostly children finding the bodies]]. WebVideo/HonestTrailers even wisecracked about the game being a "playable corpse-finder" in its entry for ''Film/PokemonDetectivePikachu''.

** Around 2016 and '17, a new activity made headlines for this: ''VideoGame/PokémonGO'', which had the added bonus of making sure [[HarmfulToMinors it was mostly children finding the bodies]]. WebVideo/HonestTrailers even wisecracked about the game being a "playable corpse-finder" in its entry for ''Film/PokemonDetectivePikachu''.

* TruthInTelevision: the persons who found abandoned bodies, the most often, are those who are used to wander deep into nature: joggers, huntsmen, and those who were gone mushroom picking or took their dog for a walk.

* The opening of Richard Harris' novel and film ''Literature/{{Fatherland}}'' in which a Waffen-SS soldier out on a morning training run by a Berlin lake discovers the corpse of a retired high-ranking Nazi who has been murdered. (The hapless squaddie is murdered too, later.)

* In ''Series/TheSopranos'', Mikey Palmice is killed while jogging.

* On July 19, 2018, [[https://www.yahoo.com/gma/mollie-tibbetts-loved-ones-prepare-her-funeral-her-181255434--abc-news-topstories.html Mollie Tibbetts]] went out for a run and vanished. Her body was found nearly a month later. At this, much like after the abovementioned cases, a slew of women submitted numerous stories of being harassed while jogging.

* No murder, but the HalfManHalfBiscuit song 'Stuck Up A Hornbeam' depicts a man contemplating hanging himself in the woods.

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* In ''Film/ISawWhatYouDid'', Steve Marek is almost caught in the act of burying his wife's body in the woods by a woman who is chasing her runaway dog. Steve thinks he unspotted, but she did get enough of a look at him to give the police a vague description. Apparently the dog runs away again later, and this time the woman finds the shallow grave.

* In ''Film/ISawWhatYoudDid'', Steve Marek is almost caught in the act of burying his wife's body in the woods by a woman who is chasing her runaway dog. Steve thinks he unspotted, but she did get enough of a look at him to give the police a vague description. Apparently the dog runs away again later, and this time the woman finds the ShallowGrave.