When bad things happen to celebrities, the whole world reels in shock. We often ask, "How could that happen to them?" as if their stint in the limelight ensures that they're out of harm's way.   SPOT.ph takes stock of 10 shocking crimes that happened to our local celebrities.

Pretty young mom Ruby Rose Barrameda-Jimenez died violently.

1. Actress Rochelle Barrameda's sister Ruby Rose Jimenez murdered and stuffed inside a steel drum

The Barrameda clan had been living on the edge since Jimenez went missing in 2007. Then, in 2009, a steel drum containing the decomposing body of a woman who was handcuffed and blindfolded surfaced in the Navotas River. The corpse, which had been sealed into the drum with cement, turned out to be Jimenez. Her estranged husband Manuel "Third" Jimenez III, along with his father and uncle, were initially named as persons of interest in the case. Then, based on an informant's tip, some other suspects were arrested later on. There are still many details that don't add up in the case.   Jimenez was only 26 when she disappeared. She left behind two children, who are now with their father.

The murder of film critics Alexis Tioseco and Nika Bohinc shocked their friends and fans.

2. Film critic Alexis Tioseco and Slovenian girlfriend Nika Bohinc shot dead inside their home

Reports say that Tioseco and Bohinc came home on the night of September 1, 2009 and interrupted a robbery in progress. Bohinc was allegedly shot first.   Crime scene investigators theorized that upon seeing her fall, Tioseco most probably fought off the robbers. That was when he, too, got shot. Tioseco was a faculty member of the arts department of the University of the Asia and the Pacific and was a regular contributor for several magazines and top newspapers, including the Philippine Daily Inquirer and the Philippine Star. He was cited as one of the prime movers of Philippine independent cinema. He was 28 and Bohinc was 30.