A Tennessee man, Marvin Potter (on the right), is in police custody tonight, charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of a couple who had unfriended his 30-year-old daughter on the popular social networking site.
The murderous spat began when Billy Payne Jr and his girlfriend, Billie Jean Hayworth, unfriended Potter’s 30-year-old daughter Jenelle. According to police, Jenelle began harassing the couple in the week leading up to the shooting on January 31.
Authorities believe that at some point between 5.30am and 11am that day, Marvin Potter entered the couple’s Mountain City home and shot the pair — Billy Payne in his bedroom and Billie Jean in their eight-month-old daughter’s room. Billie Jean was found holding her infant in her arms when a neighbour made the grisly discovery.
Jamie Curd (on the left), a friend of the Potter’s and reportedly romantically interested in Jenelle, was charged as an accessory to the crime. Both men remain jailed, Potter on $US200,000 bail and Curd on $US1.5 million. [Yahoo]
Ashleigh
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 12:20 PMYou need to fix up the title of this article.
Crazy story though. What is the world coming to?
Sevrin
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 12:24 PMI thought it was an article about two people who were just over Facebook unfriending!
vin
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 12:24 PMsoooo this ‘Curd’ guy has his bail set at 1.5mill for being an accessory, whilst the actual murder’s is only 200k?!?
… really? :|
Ammusionist
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 1:33 PMJust look at Prada – Accessories are Soooo expensive!
BrightNobleWoman
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 8:49 AMI noticed the discrepancies in the bail terms too. Makes me think that there is more to the story.
Matt
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 12:26 PMHow come the shooters bail is less than the accessory?
Ric
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 12:26 PMI think they adjust the bail according to financials. Maybe the accessory can afford a 200k bail.
Antonia
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 12:34 PMI’m sure there’s a way where you can prevent receiving any of the posts of a ‘friend’ without ‘unfriending’ them. Seems like the safest option with nuts around.
Greg
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 1:14 PMActually all unfriending is done without a notice but if you keep an eye on your friends list (like you might if you were harassing them), then you will notice as they won’t appear in that list any more.
And who would have thought unfriending could be dangerous.
Will
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 12:37 PMWhy is the accessory held to a bond that is nearly 6x bigger, when he’s not the guy who actually flipped it and killed two people?
drw
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 9:10 PMactually you can see who unfriended you with a facebook app plugin using chrome
Ozoneocean
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 1:45 PMStupid people do stupid things… If it wasn’t about Facebook, it’s be about being cut off in traffic or snubbed in public or one of a million things. It don’t take much to set off a murderous moron.
The inevitable inference that Facebook would be somehow responsible for such a thing is the same as blaming games for deaths.
Ozoneocean
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 1:47 PMThat should be “it’d” and “doesn’t”. My fingers seem to be set for “hill-billy.”
TedJ
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 1:56 PMObligatory.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcejLp72iCE
Aleks
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 1:59 PMCome on folks … someone has to understand how bail bonds work in the US … basically, when you are arraigned for trial, they also set your bail … this is decided on a combination of your likelihood of absconding/not appearing for trial, your financial situation and the severity of the crime … then, when your bail has been set, you can contact a bail bondsman and they will post your bail after you provide them a 10% assurity/deposit … if you then skip bail, they send a bounty hunter after your bail dodging hide … see, TV does teach people things aside from how big a mullet Dog can really grow …
Sicarius123
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 3:31 PMBoth their names were Billy?
John
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 5:33 PMWish people would just get the hell over Facebook and move on, there are more things to life than wasting your time on that garbage.
Me
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 9:18 PMYet you felt the need to not only read an article about facebook but comment online about it.
Just how sad is your hypocritical life? :)
Rick
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 12:24 AMit seems now more than ever that truth is stranger than fiction … at an ever-increasingly alarming rate.
fish
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 4:31 AMNot really, there are just more blogs about
Sean
Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 4:44 AMOr he read an article about murder and commented about the supposed cause of that murder. You seem well mannered and not at all judgmental.