Wicked Web: The Tennessee Facebook Murders

There’s a Danish proverb that says, “If envy were a fever, then the whole world would be ill.” It’s probably true. I mean, everybody feels that poisonous little pang now and then. We all occasionally want something that somebody else has, maybe even resent them a little for having it. We learn to get past it, focus on the good in our own lives instead of obsessing about everyone else. But sometimes, envy can take over—spread through the soul like a kudzu vine, smothering and strangling and covering everything else. You can get trapped in it. And you can convince yourself that the only way out is destruction. Join us for a Southern gothic tale for the social media age: a story about love, family, betrayal, envy and manipulation.

Sources:
Too Pretty to Live: The Catfishing Murders of East Tennessee by Dennis Brooks
Medium: https://medium.com/serial-napper/jenelle-potter-the-killer-catfish-51c0626cec7
ABC's 20/20, Episode "Unfriended"
Investigation Discovery special, "Too Pretty To Live"
https://www.timesnews.net/one-of-three-facebook-murder-convictions-overturned-mother-granted-new-trial/article_4aea9524-0618-11ec-a093-8b71991a842d.html

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