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This is just crazy.

Facebook "defriending" led to double murder, police say - Yahoo! News


NASHVILLE, Tenn (Reuters) - A Tennessee couple who "defriended" a woman on Facebook were murdered in their home by the jilted woman's father and another man, police said on Thursday.
"It's the worst thing I've ever seen," Johnson County Sheriff Mike Reece said, adding he had never seen anything like it in his 27 years in law enforcement in the area. "We've had murders, but nothing like this. This is just senseless."
He said Billy Clay Payne, Jr. and Billie Jean Hayworth were killed last month after they deleted Jenelle Potter, the daughter of one of the suspects, from their "friends" list. Both were shot in the head and the man had his throat cut.
The couple's 8-month-old baby was in the mother's arms, unharmed, when the bodies were found.
Marvin Enoch "Buddy" Potter Jr., 60, and Jamie Lynn Curd, 38, were each charged on Wednesday in Mountain City in northeastern Tennessee with two counts of first-degree murder. The men were arrested on Tuesday.
The case was not the first involving violence linked to Facebook. Last year in Iowa, a woman was arrested on accusations of setting fire to a friend's garage after she was defriended on the social network site, local media reported.
In Texas, a man was accused of hitting his wife after she failed to "like" a Facebook post he wrote about the anniversary of his mother's death, according to media reports.
In the Tennessee case, Reece said a couple of harassment cases had been filed against Jenelle Potter in court over "someone blocking her or taking her off."
"Once you've crossed her, you've crossed her father too," Reece said, adding that Jenelle Potter, in her late 20s or early 30s, stays home with her parents and was constantly on Facebook.
Her father, "Buddy" Potter, will return to court next week for a bond hearing after he hires an attorney. Curd, also a second cousin of one of the victims, was appointed an attorney and bond was set at $750,000 for each murder count. His preliminary hearing will be in March.
No charges have been filed against Jenelle Potter, the sheriff said. She could not reached for comment.
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Seriously, this is not trolling, but it's just my personal opinion that SNS should just be banned. It's crazy. Most of the 800million+ users of Facebook have no idea what kind of information is being leaked every minute. It's my personal opinion that most SNS active users are just bat-****ing crazy or at loss with reality
 
Proud South Korean said:
Seriously, this is not trolling, but it's just my personal opinion that SNS should just be banned. It's crazy. Most of the 800million+ users of Facebook have no idea what kind of information is being leaked every minute. It's my personal opinion that most SNS active users are just bat-****ing crazy or at loss with reality
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You don't have any idea what information is leaking either, if any. Don't have a heart attack over it.
 
What a pointless, wasteful murder.

Absolutely heartless.
 
Oh great, does this mean that there are about 300 people who are going to try and kill me.
 
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I defriended this dude yesterday because he wrote some dick post on my wall, and I've seen him like 5 times since highschool and he got all pissed and started talking **** to me about it. Why do people take FB so damn seriously?
 
I shut down my FB page altogether. It amazes me what people will share; then again, we're in the reality show world now, and everyone has to be the star of their own picture show.

It was creepy the people that come out from under rocks and suddenly want to have lunch with you because you were in 9th grade English together.
 
Seems like they are leaving a lot out and it may be more than the 'defriending'. Of course it doesn't make it any better, but puzzle pieces are missin. Also people do get accidentally deleted all the time on fb. THere have been times a friend has added me, and I'm like; ''I thought we were already fb friends''. Glitches drop friends from time to time.
 
Too many fruitloops out there and most found their way to FB. I dumped my account there the best I could but you know the old saying "once you put it on the net, it will always be on the net".
 
Oh my lord. It's just facebook. These people were/are absolutely nuts.

To address some of the posts:
1. I have been defriended by people I thought I was close to and I have defriended people who thought they were close to me...none of us (to my knowledge) took it very seriously. Hell, my aunt deleted me off her FB because she didn't like the language I used...no skin off my nose and now she won't feel awkward reading my posts. Getting bat**** insane over FB is just dumb.

2. I'd actually LOVE to meet up with some of my junior high/high school friends. Moving as much as I did I lost touch with a lot of great people I really cared about. If one of 'em found me on FB I'd be thrilled.

3. I almost wonder if this uncharged girl (the one who was defriended) shouldn't have some sort of evaluation done. Obviously she has the ability to threaten the lives of others through her father/family, so at the least I'd like to see her be evaluated.
 
That's just rotten to murder people just because you were ******* defriended. What kind of a world is this? FB is such a livewire for drama. I should just scrap my current account and ONLY befriend my loved ones.
 
tessaesque said:
2. I'd actually LOVE to meet up with some of my junior high/high school friends. Moving as much as I did I lost touch with a lot of great people I really cared about. If one of 'em found me on FB I'd be thrilled.
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Don't.

They aren't who you remember them being. Just imagine how your cousins were when you were kids, and how they are now. Now, multiple that times 10.

Charles Manson had friends in junior high, too.
 
Erod said:
Don't.

They aren't who you remember them being. Just imagine how your cousines were when you were kids, and how they are now. Now, multiple that times 10.

Charles Manson had friends in junior high, too.
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That's....silly. People change, but the statistically likelihood of my old friends becoming serial killers in the time since junior high is slim to nil. Paranoia makes life worthless, IMO.
 
I doubt being defriended caused someone to kill it was just the catalyst. They had to already be deranged before some small online event.
 
tessaesque said:
That's....silly. People change, but the statistically likelihood of my old friends becoming serial killers in the time since junior high is slim to nil. Paranoia makes life worthless, IMO.
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I was just trying to make a point. But still, people with a lot of friends and a life don't try to set up lunches with people they barely knew 15 years ago.
 
Erod said:
I was just trying to make a point. But still, people with a lot of friends and a life don't try to set up lunches with people they barely knew 15 years ago.
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Perhaps you don't, but you're not exactly the moral authority on how everybody should behave. You're one person.
 
tessaesque said:
That's....silly. People change, but the statistically likelihood of my old friends becoming serial killers in the time since junior high is slim to nil. Paranoia makes life worthless, IMO.
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Um... well yes and no.


When I was a cop I saw more people I'd gone to school with than I've seen since, mainly being arrested for one thing or another. At one point I joked that we'd have to hold our high school reunion in the County Jail if we wanted decent attendence.

Two people I remember from school have been convicted of murder. Two more of child molestation... one of those raped an 11yo girl. A surprisingly large number of those I would have considered "good kids" in Jr High were later convicted of drug dealing, grand theft, burglary or armed robbery, mainly to support drug habits they'd developed.

I'm not saying you should not contact old schoolmates if you wish to.... just to exercise a certain caution. There's a fairly good chance that they very different people now, and not necessarily in a good way.
 
Goshin said:
Um... well yes and no.


When I was a cop I saw more people I'd gone to school with than I've seen since, mainly being arrested for one thing or another. At one point I joked that we'd have to hold our high school reunion in the County Jail if we wanted decent attendence.

Two people I remember from school have been convicted of murder. Two more of child molestation... one of those raped an 11yo girl. A surprisingly large number of those I would have considered "good kids" in Jr High were later convicted of drug dealing, grand theft, burglary or armed robbery, mainly to support drug habits they'd developed.

I'm not saying you should not contact old schoolmates if you wish to.... just to exercise a certain caution. There's a fairly good chance that they very different people now, and not necessarily in a good way.
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Geeeez buddy, grow up in a bad part of town?
 
sawyerloggingon said:
Geeeez buddy, grow up in a bad part of town?
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More of a bad generation, frankly. Lots of violence and drugs and little respect for the law. Things have improved a lot in the area since then.

My JrHi was in a town of 2500. The High School was halfway to the city, pop 45,000 at that time.


But I suspect that working LE almost anywhere would be a real eye-opener for anyone about how much goes on, and just how bad some folks are.
 
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Goshin said:
More of a bad generation, frankly. Lots of violence and drugs and little respect for the law. Things have improved a lot in the area since then.

My JrHi was in a town of 2500. The High School was halfway to the city, pop 45,000 at that time.


But I suspect that working LE almost anywhere would be a real eye-opener for anyone about how much goes on, and just how bad some folks are.
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Yep, they don't run around advertising their past indiscretions. I came from an upper middle class suburb and HS and saw the same drug using, law breaking amount of former class mates. It was the end of an era of disobedience and rebellion.

We must be close in age and geography.
 
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