Facebook "defriending" led to double murder, police say
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.
Curd's attorney, R.O. Smith, an assistant public defender, said it was "safe to say there's more to it than the Facebook problem, it appears."
"I wish I could provide more of what went on, but there's needless to say a lot of rumors swirling around and nothing substantiated on the rumors," Smith said. -- Reuters
*******************************************************
No wonder some Islamic ulama dictates that facebook is haram (no joke, I've read it somewhere).
It can lead to some becoming insane, and this case is one of them known.
There might be lot more out there, not to the extend of quelling, but maybe in form of minor or major harassment, identity copying ( know one), obsession with certain person and some other mentally ill actions.
If 'unfriending' can make someone be killed, I wonder how many time I have died before...and will be in the future.
Unlike some people who just enjoy having hundreds and hundreds of 'friends' on their friend list (which I dare say they only get connected frequently with a handful of them). To me there's nothing wrong with you unfriending someone on facebook, of course loads of people might not share the same ideas.
It's too rude they'll say.
Just let it be, they'll say.
But hey, everyone need to conduct reality check every once a while and conduct a spring cleaning.
My spring cleaning however, will cover all from the household items to personal things and that includes cyber whom I assumed just send in friend request for the sake of having their number up and for the fun poking nose on whats going on with the other person's life without ever wanting to communicate whatnot's.
So, why want to be sour when you've been 'unfriended' on facebook?
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.
Curd's attorney, R.O. Smith, an assistant public defender, said it was "safe to say there's more to it than the Facebook problem, it appears."
"I wish I could provide more of what went on, but there's needless to say a lot of rumors swirling around and nothing substantiated on the rumors," Smith said. -- Reuters
*******************************************************
No wonder some Islamic ulama dictates that facebook is haram (no joke, I've read it somewhere).
It can lead to some becoming insane, and this case is one of them known.
There might be lot more out there, not to the extend of quelling, but maybe in form of minor or major harassment, identity copying ( know one), obsession with certain person and some other mentally ill actions.
If 'unfriending' can make someone be killed, I wonder how many time I have died before...and will be in the future.
Unlike some people who just enjoy having hundreds and hundreds of 'friends' on their friend list (which I dare say they only get connected frequently with a handful of them). To me there's nothing wrong with you unfriending someone on facebook, of course loads of people might not share the same ideas.
It's too rude they'll say.
Just let it be, they'll say.
But hey, everyone need to conduct reality check every once a while and conduct a spring cleaning.
My spring cleaning however, will cover all from the household items to personal things and that includes cyber whom I assumed just send in friend request for the sake of having their number up and for the fun poking nose on whats going on with the other person's life without ever wanting to communicate whatnot's.
So, why want to be sour when you've been 'unfriended' on facebook?
No comments:
Post a Comment