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Loading... Too Pretty To Live: The Catfishing Murders of East Tennesseeby Dennis Brooks
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.   amoderndaybelle | May 27, 2021 |  I was already familiar with this case before reading this, but the glimpse I was given was never in depth. Dennis Brooks did a good job of laying down the facts of the case. I listened to this on audiobook and, unlike many people I have seen review this, I didn't feel confused at all by the emails being read aloud. I feel that without those emails you didn't get a glimpse of both the absurdity, manipulation (and dare I say lack of intelligence) that caused this senseless crime to be set in motion. I also found it fairly easy to follow, even though those composing these messages lacked education (for lack of a better way of putting it). I was a little put off by the slight hint of misogyny I felt coming off of the prosecuting attorney (author) in this case, but aside from that, the book was done as well as can be expected from a man whose first job is not that of a writer. (  ) Jonez | Oct 24, 2019 | ) thebookdisciple | Oct 9, 2018 | no reviews | add a review
In this stunning true-crime thriller of Facebook, catfishing, and jealousy, a double murder begins with the click of a button. When Bill Payne and Billie Jean Hayworth began their romance, they unknowingly set in motion a diabolical plot that would end with them murdered in their own home, Hayworth holding their mercifully unharmed infant. Chris was a CIA agent who was concerned about Jenelle. Seeing the cyberbullying she had endured, and worried for her safety, Chris got in touch with Jenelle's protective parents and her devoted boyfriend, warning them that Payne and Hayworth were a danger to Jenelle. He got especially close with Jenelle's mother, Barbara, who thought of Chris like a son, though she had never met him. Chris claimed that surveillance of Payne and Hayworth revealed that the two of them were planning on harming Jenelle, that it was imminent, and that something needed to be done immediately. Chris promised that he would have their back if they were to act to protect Jenelle. And so they did. Jenelle's father, Buddy, and her boyfriend, Jamie, broke into the home of Payne and Hayworth and murdered them in their own home. What the police investigation turned up, though, made this crime all the more terrifying. Jenelle had been Chris the entire time, catfishing her family and her boyfriend to act in vengeance on her behalf. Using forensic linguistics and diving through the brambles that Jenelle laid to cover her tracks, police were able to put together a chilling portrait of a sociopath made all the more ruthless by the anonymity of her online life. Bizarre and unforgettable, Dennis Brooks examines the crime and trial from all angles, bringing his expertise as the lead prosecutor in this strange and disturbing case. No library descriptions found. |
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