Postmodern media create a social reality that is beyond the norm of ordinary everyday life because they appropriate from that everyday life exactly what is unusual, extraordinary. Such events are then served to the audience as entertainment and sensation, both in fictional content such as video games and movies and in those realistic content such as doc series and daily news programs. Criminal behavior and violence are what represents a fundamental violation of the social norm, but also of the legal order, which is why they pervade the media space. For this reason, this paper studies those media frameworks and narratives that deal with crime and the justice system, which are otherwise equally applied to informative and popular media texts, and offer the audience a deeper explanation of the crime itself and the motives for its commission. Through a case study of media coverage of the triple Split killer Filip Zavadlav, this research aims to determine the media frameworks used in the informative and investigative reports of the three national televisions, based on the theoretical assumptions of cultural criminology. Also, the task is to spot the actions of media humanization of the criminal through the narrative elements of Byronism and the characteristics of antiheroes that are taken from the texts of popular culture, which are attributed to the perpetrator of the crime. Through the analysis of media, texts have established the representation of one of the most important characteristics of Byron's hero, which puts the perpetrator in the position of a victim-criminal, in order to point out his unfavorable position in society and provoke sympathy of the audience.