Sometimes it takes a murder to break into show business.
Or at least that?s how Pikesville native David Steinberg got his shot. Last night he appeared on Spike TV?s new reality show ? “Murder.”
Steinberg worked in Los Angeles for eight years as a writer and producer on films such as “The Scorpion King,” “Hart?s War” and “Snakes on a Plane.”
His episode of “Murder” begins with a young girl killed in her home, with veteran homicide Detective Tommy Le Noir escorting his and another group of civilians into an exact-replica crime scene pulled from the files of a solved homicide case. They have 48 hours to gather clues, “interview” suspects and close the case.
What made you want to solve a murder on television?
My whole life I?ve been reading about true crime and detective novels. At some time I got very interested in famous unsolved crimes like the Black Dahlia murder or Jack the Ripper. It was not so much that I wanted to be on television, but this was a prime opportunity to do something I very much love to do ? try to solve a crime.
What was the hardest part?
Just dealing with the crime itself. They did a very good job or recreating it. It was a very real representation of an act of violence on a very young girl. It had an immediate and severe impact on our team. You just have to learn to look past that, focus on the perpetrator. That was tough. You?re emotionally attached to the person and it really hits you very hard.
Do you think you could be a detective?
I had a really amazing experience on the show. I don?t really look at it as fun. I don?t think of it as something that should be fun. It was all sparked by someone getting murdered. But it was very fulfilling, physically, intellectually and emotionally to throw yourself into a challenge like this. This is a big departure for me. Being in front of the camera was never something I had considered for myself.
