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Nashville - A Tennessee couple who “unfriended” 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,” said Johnson County Sheriff Mike Reece, who has worked in local law enforcement for 27 years. “We've had murders, but nothing like this. This is just senseless.”
He said Billy Clay Payne Junior 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 eight-month-old baby was in the mother's arms, unharmed, when the bodies were found.
Marvin Enoch “Buddy” Potter Junior, 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 unfriended on the social networking 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.
Curd's attorney, R.O. Smith, an assistant public defender, said of the Tennessee case that it was “safe to say there's more to it than the Facebook problem, it appears”. - Reuters
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Anonymous, wrote
@Get the correct message across: Civil = Citizen, same meaning...double check facts before posting!!!
Anonymous, wrote
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Micky, wrote
Tanya, wrote
I better run, I just did have Face book Cull and eliminated half my "friends" all known to me in persn ;-)
Get the correct message across, wrote
@Henk:- I think you were referring to Citizen Band Radio...Who's small minded now? And NO I dissagree ...CB was for people to talk and not post pics comments etc..Try and compare apples with apples...you banana
Bobby Boucher, wrote
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Henk, wrote
Facebook reminds me of the civil band radios of the late 70s. Candyfloss for small minds!
Anonymous, wrote
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HP, wrote
At least these deviants will be sentenced to death. Unlike the ones we have on the loose in South Africa.
HillBillyRednecks, wrote
This type of thing happens daily in the mountaneous regions of Tenessee. This is just the first time Facebook is in the Picture. Watch the story has something to do with the grandchild pregnating the mom and thereafter creating a facebook profile to brag about it, one thing leads to the next and the couple down the road was shot on route to morning prayers.
Anonymous, wrote
Maybe people should learn to be social beings again instead of relying on these so called "social networks." It's pathetic how much store some people set by Facebook, Twitter, Mxit, etc. relationships. Get a life! A real one
Gadaffi, wrote
Jen, wrote
Some people just need to get lives - i mean really now! Faceboo is a perfectly good social networking site, and if used correctly, can be really fun etc. But then you get psychotic people like these - who just have mental problems. killing for unfriending - WOW - just when you think you have heard it all!!!
Don Coyote, wrote
"Guns don't kill people, people do", "Facebook doesn't kill people, people do". This is a reminder to users of social networking to choose their "friends" carefully; there are millions of sicko's out there!
Tandiwe, wrote
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