At exactly 11.14 pm, Kelsey Demarko was not walking to buy chips and pop to power an all-nighter before her exam, so she did not break off the heel of her left boot, and she did not then stumble into trash bins full of raccoons, only to be spotted by her ex-boyfriend John Francois. Instead, Kelsey skipped it, and with the skip app, had her chips and pop delivered, allowing her to study and totally rock her midterm. Yes! Smart move, Kelsey. Skip to the good part.
If someone had let you see everything that had gone on Facebook and they're talking and saying nasty things about each other, would you ever have imagined that it would have wound up with two people dead in this house? No, never would have. I got a phone call telling me that she was gone. Am I even going to just get to believe it? I was sorry.
And this is the bedroom where the clay was, man. Single shot. Single shot in place. Through the back of the house, and did a catch, Billy Jean as well, totally asleep. My impression was, you look like a hit.
The contract hit. Right. People saw throws a killer on the woods. I'm sorry it happened. I mean, that's all I could tell you is they had been harassing and living.
Crap out of you. What kinds of things were people saying about you? Just that I was a bad person. I was horrible. Fritting to get hurt.
What started all this hatred? I've had my life. It's not like to think that they've threatened to take me out and hurt at all. All part of what prosecutors call the craziest, stupidest, deadliest catfishing scheme you have ever seen. This is Mountain City, a postage stamp hamlet nestled in the mountains in East Tennessee.
Mountain City is a two-by-four town. You know, it's two miles wide and four miles low. A sign greeting visitors calls Mountain City a friendly hometown. Johnson County is considered a very safe place. I was the assistant district attorney there for over six years, and there was only a handful of homicides.
Maybe one a year if that. You grew up with people and you're going to see them at the grocery store. You go to the gas station and you run into somebody you know. Everybody goes to the same church. It's the quintessential small-town America.
Definitely a place where everybody knows everybody. Everybody's in everybody else's business. Johnson County 911. I know what your name was by. Take the flag to find police.
That call is coming from this house where Billy Payne lives with his fiance, Billy Jane Hayworth. When two neighbors stop by, they discover unspeakable horror. The back door's always unlocked. So he goes in, callers nobody answers. He's strange that Billy Jane's car is here. Billy's truck is here. Nobody's answering.
So he goes down the hallway and finds the old bed. Billy Payne is not moving. His face is blanked. I can't find the car. I like these boys. I can't see it. Oh my God.
Blood on it. Okay. I got to get calm. They heard a noise in the second bedroom which is farther down the hall from the first. They went back and they found the seven-month-old baby.
There's blood on the baby. There's blood on the baby. Billy Jane layed on the floor and the baby was there with her. She had her arms wrapped around him and he was laying there on the floor with her. The child was covered in blood.
I'm ready. I'll be honest with you. I don't know how long my sister left you. But I've come to me and the parents have talked to my parents. They've been at the same time for a while and probably cried to me.
Miraculously, the baby Tyler, seen here in photos released by the Johnson County Sheriff's Office, has no physical injuries and appears to be unharmed. Sadly, the same can't be said for the seven-month-old's parents. No, there's no cold. I know there's no cold. I know there's no cold.
There's no cold. There's no cold. I'm either one of them. There's a lot. This was around 10.40 a.m. in the morning.
That's whenever the first call had came in. Here I am. I'm driving down through here and I'm thinking it's hard to believe that there's actually two people that's been murdered down here. Because it's just something that's very uncommon here. If one thing happens there, the whole community knows about it.
The situation of two people being murdered in their own home, murdered in every jobless. In the early morning hours was a great shot and nobody really knew what had happened. This is where Billy Payne and Billy Jean were murdered in this house. Law enforcement officers took me to the crime scene back in 2015. And you were the first on the scene because you lived pretty closely here, right?
I live approximately a mile and a half down the road right below here. Reese says they found no sign of break-in. That's because anyone could have walked right into the small house just like the police did. So they go to the back door to just open it up. It's unlocked.
They just slide and glass door and they just slide it up and walk in. This is the kind of place where people don't really lock their doors, I guess. They walked right in. Was there any sign of a scuffle, a fight, anything? No, no sign of anything like that nature move.
It looks like Billy had just gotten out of here. That's where we found his body. From what we understand. Special agent Scott Lawt with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation takes me into the home where the young couple was killed. This is the bedroom where Billy Payne was found.
Single shot. Big shot in place. Bill, he also had slice marks across his neck and the front. It was like he was going from the left side over towards the right side. It was how the slashes were. And it wasn't one. It was like multiple slashes.
I left from there and went down to the next room, which was the baby's room. And I saw Billy Jean Hayworth lying on the floor and I could tell that she had an injury above her right ear. Like Billy, Billy Jean is shot once in the head. Police theorized Billy is killed first. The bedroom should be right inside the right.
Yeah, Billy's bedroom was here in the... So they walked through the back of the house and did they catch Billy Jean as well? Totally asleep? No, Billy Jean wasn't asleep from what we got there. She was holding the baby.
Once the intruder came in, she jumped up and ran out with the baby. Right. They tried to get away. They tried to get away. Police think Billy Jean ran into the baby's nursery and tried to shield him from the attack.
So it didn't take much time to get from that room to this room to shoot? No. And then it says five feet. Right. I think it takes a couple of minutes to shoot somebody holding the baby.
Was that the most shocking thing about this mirror? You know, when that information got out, people were starting to do about that. It's all community like this. You've been involved in police work in law enforcement for what, 30 years? Almost 30 years.
You ever seen anything like this? No. Who could kill people in this way? It's a question that will ultimately uncover ugly family feuds, divide a mountain city and have these small town cops looking to a possible CIA plot. My impression after, you know, the first week was, it looked like a hit.
The contract hit. Right. She does. I have a call. I don't know.
It's a home invasion double murder that has a small Tennessee mountain town on edge and authorities scratching their heads. their heads. When they first asked me if I knew anybody that would hurt him, nobody came to mind. Nothing hit me right off. I didn't know what would have happened.
And then they asked me if they had any enemies. Most of the time if we have a murder, it's usually somebody that they know or a family member or one of the friends that got upset. But this is one of those that we always call us like a who done it murder. Before it's coming, can I take that please? The details are even more horrifying.
Thirty-six-year-old Billy Payne is not only shot in the head, his throat is sliced. The 23-year-old mother Billy Jean is holding her seven-month-old son when she's killed. Pretty cold blooded to shoot a woman holding her child on. Yes, it is. It's serious.
Especially point blank. I mean it's just right there. Shook people up, huh? It did. Sure it did.
People thought there was a killer on the loose. Did you know that people lived here? Yes, I did. Very familiar with him. No Billy and his sister from the time they were small.
Billy Payne's sister, Tracy, told me she is still struggling with losing her brother. I was shocked but I thought that went true, you know. I just don't know exactly impossible. I still don't think it's true. They were by lock, Billy.
Billy was one of these type of people that was outgoing and was friends with everybody. He lacked to get together with friends, go four-wheel away through truck into mountains, and, you know, do stuff like that. No camping. Billy worked at Parkdale Mill as a textile factory as a machine operator. Billy Jean Hayworth, who was a few years younger than Billy Payne, she started working at Parkdale and that's where Billy Payne and Billy Jean met.
They started dating. He was a good person, fun-loving, out-blowing, come person everybody will be around. She likes swimming, all big on the earth. They're sent to you a little. The romance moves quickly.
In no time at all, Billy Jean moves in with Billy and his father. And a short time later, she gives birth to baby Tyler. She was so excited. He was her world. This was the world she had about her when he came into the world was just unbelievable.
She told me the night before she got murdered. She was happy. Her son met the world of her and Bill did too. She said, sis, I mean, look, she finally found out what love really was. I got a phone call telling me that she was gone.
This is always shorter. I just can't believe it. I was shocked. You just don't ever think it's not like that happening to your baby sister. It was one of the hardest days of my life.
Nobody should have to go through finding out that their friends have been murdered. So who would want to murder a young family like this at this point? Police are desperate for any clues. Were you able to glean very much forensic evidence from the scene? There's very little, it's very clean scene as far as, you know, physical evidence goes.
So no prints, no shell casings, no DNA left behind. Nothing we found under. It was because whenever the suspects entered the house, they didn't do anything else. They did not go through the drawers, the closets, the wallets were all left in their places. Some money was laying around, it was left just as it was.
So nothing was taken from the residents. Investigators have seen don't find any shell casings which leads them to believe that the murder weapon was a revolver. But they do find two bullets there. Really Jean was laying in the floor in a semi-fetal position. To me, it looked as if she was bending over to pick up her child from the bouncy seat and was shot at that point.
I guess as the bullet landed and the bouncy seat. It was amazing. You would think that we would have to, you know, look for the bullet in the room, either in a wall or something. But it was just laying right there. And the bullet was still in good shape.
A bullet recovered from Billy's pillow is also mostly intact. That bullet has an X carved into its tip. This is a technique that's used to craft what is sometimes called a poor man's hollow point. The idea is that the bullet would break apart upon impact and cause even more damage. And you never found the murder weapon or the knife that apparently slipped the throat?
My impression after the first week was it looked like a hit. But the contract hit. They either had some training or they were self-doubt. We didn't know. We initially started questioning family and friends.
Billy's father tells investigators that when he leaves for work at about 5.30 that morning, Billy is still sleeping and Billy Jean is feeding the baby. Bill Payne would always ride with a guy to work. And that morning he went up and knocked on the door but no one would come to the door. So he just figured that, you know, he wasn't going to go to work. So he just left and went on to work.
And that was sometime around maybe six o'clock or so. Now police have isolated a half hour window when they believe the murder happened. But they still need to find out who did it. The first day when we were talking to friends by the victims. Someone had mentioned that there was some kind of augmentation or grievance.
If someone had let you see everything that had gone on, defriending each other on Facebook and they're talking and saying, ask you think about each other, would you ever have imagined that it would have wound up with two people dead in this house? No. In 2012, the small town of Mountain City is very online. A lot of people know about everything that goes on here. What caused it? You know, Facebook.
Back in 2012, there was Facebook. There was an out of phone to a website called Topics. Topics became a big deal in Johnson County. For people who can go on there and make their own topic and have discussions and she's likely to find two different areas. Around here it's very popular.
One of the biggest users of topics and other social media sites in Mountain City is a 30-year-old Janelle Potte, who will become a key player in this murder mystery. So let's start off in the beginning. Where did you grow up? Grubman Ken, that's Grub in San Diego. Most it like.
There's nice small town. Everyone pretty much knows everybody. They moved to Mountain City from Pennsylvania in the early 2000s. From all accounts, Janelle was someone who didn't leave the house very much. She lived most of her life online.
The Potter family was known pretty well in Johnson County as keeping to themselves and just being a little weird. They didn't really interact with a lot of people. They didn't work. It seemed very, very paranoid family. Janelle's father, Marvin, also goes by the name Buddy.
Now, Buddy's a Vietnam vet who says he did covert missions for the CIA. His wife Barbara admits she doesn't exactly know what he did overseas. Was he ever in the CIA or attached to the CIA? No, he said he was. Is he allowed to talk about what he did?
No. Never. I just saw him as a gentle giant. Buddy's a gentle giant who's on disability. He suffers from debilitating back pain and periodically relies on oxygen tanks to breathe.
But he still sees himself as the protector of this family. My understanding of Janelle and why she was delivering with her parents is that chance of learning disabilities that were diagnosed pretty early in her life. Buddy and Barbara are protective and he barely let their daughter out of their sight. What were the rules? What kind of rules were they?
Don't be out past the trouble clock at night. No smoking, no drinking, no partying, no drugs, stuff like that. Tell me about Janelle. Very naive, can make decisions sometimes that aren't quite right for her because she's young. She's young and more young than her age. I think.
Her parents had a lot of control over her. She was not allowed to use their computer, she was not allowed to use her cell phone, she was not allowed to use her cell phone, she wasn't allowed to have friends over socially to be around people in person without them getting in good with Buddy and Barbara beforehand. So this forced Janelle to seek out relationships online. Janelle also suffers from chronic health issues which he per indoors most of the time. Janelle did have some interactions in real life and these photos presented in court showed Janelle with new friends, Billy Payne and his sister Tracy.
I worked at the pharmacy in town and they were coming in to get their medicine and we felt sorry for Janelle because she was she was older because she was sick. So I got to talk to my brother about these people that had come in. She gave me a phone number and I started calling her. Tell me about your relationship with Tracy. It was again, she was a good friend to me. I would go out with her to the mall to her house a few times.
I had to eat, took her son in different places. We were okay. What did you think of Bill? He was not. Just nice?
Mm-hmm. But Janelle says she's also being cyber bullied and hateful anonymous comments begin appearing on her Facebook page. Soon this War of Words explodes online between Janelle and Billy Jean Hayworth who Janelle accuses of starting that online feud. What was her relationship like with Billy Jean? Well she had it hurt.
From the get go. She had color all kinds of bad names. Now at one point did they unfriend you on Facebook? I think we did it to each other. I unfriended them and they unfriended me.
Who unfriended who first? I did Bill first and I think Billy did me and I unfriended her. But Janelle says the online venom keeps coming and escalates to physical threats. Janelle's mother, Barbara, intervenes. I wrote, please do not write these things. I begged them, please don't do this.
What kinds of things were people saying about you? Just that I was a bad person. I was horrible. Threatened to get right. Threatening to get hurt.
What's the point? Scary? Yes. Why would people say this about you? I don't know.
What started all this hatred? I'm not sure. And those are the exact same questions. At least one to ask the podters the day after Janelle's Facebook friends turned foes are murdered. The podters, they live right up here.
So this is the house. This is the house. And you told them this is a conversation. You're just no search warrant. Right. This is just something just to get some interviews.
I sat down and talk about what type of problems they all had with each other. Hey. Hey, Dan. Hey, what are you talking about? Unknown to the podters, investigators record the interview.
What we're doing right now is investigating the double house. Very serious matter. Everybody always wants to favor those who are something. No, they're in there by calling their fingers. Instead of talking about how tragic the murders were, instead of talking about, you know, what an outrage it was, the Potter family, especially Janelle, just started trashing on Billy Payne and Billy Jean-Award.
They didn't ask me. They might drive away. They're properly. And then yesterday morning when I got on Facebook, it's when I checked out. And, um, I mean, I'm sorry, it happened.
I mean, that's all I could tell you is they had been harassing and they've been craffy. What would they be harassing? They came out to be a jealousy thing. They said I was too pretty. Bloody and Barbara Potter definitely saw their daughters evict them.
They saw the Facebook posts. They saw the emails that were sent back and forth. They really thought that people were out to rape her. People were out to kill her. You never put on the internet that you issued?
No. I'm not that mean. I just don't want to believe the oath. That's all I've ever asked. What did you come away with?
I have nothing to do with it. I didn't do anything to do with it at all. And so were you really suspicious when you walked away from that house? We were suspicious, yes. Why are investigators suspicious? Because Janelle brings up another person who was involved in this online feud.
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Watch the Hulu Regional Series Phoney. Now streaming on Hulu on Disney Plus for about a subscriber's term supply. As Mountain City investigators are interviewing the potters about an online feud with murder victims Billy Payne and Billy Jean Hayworth, they ask about a local man named Jamie Kurt. Jamie, he's just a friend. He's been advised for years. He's from the Broad Valley. Yeah, he's from the whole about me.
Jamie Kurt was from Johnson County. I had lived there as a lot. He was a pretty solitary guy, kept to himself. Every time you see him he's always wearing sunglasses. He says that the son always bothers his eyes.
Jamie Kurt was Billy's second cousin. Jamie had grown up with Billy. They were more like brothers and cousins. Jamie, like Billy Payne, and Billy Jean, worked at Parkdale Mills and like Billy, he's brought into Janelle's orbit thanks to Tracy who set the Chai Janelle up with her cousin. So why did you think they set up Jamie and Janelle?
Well, Jamie didn't have a girlfriend and she really didn't have a boyfriend. So we just, that's all we didn't look like they got together by no means. When Jamie was sort of rafflic and you know, crazy when she was neat. So... Jamie also moonlights fixing home computers around town. The potters used Jamie as a person to come and fix their computers whenever something was wrong, which would give Janelle a reason to be able to see Jamie.
And when Jamie was there Janelle would be allowed to go into the computer room and talk to Jamie and be around Jamie. So Jamie and Janelle got closer and closer. But the potters didn't want Janelle dating and they certainly didn't want Janelle dating Jamie. Janelle's mom and dad did not approve of Jamie. So Jamie wasn't in love with her. So Jamie had purchased her cell phone and he would come here bring it and hide it in the bushes. She would kind of get it.
They started talking some, I believe that they text message and instant message back and forth. They used email frequently. This undercover relationship between Jamie Kurd and Janelle just kept growing and growing. You and Jamie got pretty serious at one point. Yes.
How often would you talk? Every day. For long periods. For an hour or two hours at a time. What would you talk about?
Our day. I don't know how you were telling me about his life. I don't know how to tell my mind. In type of filled messages Janelle tells Jamie you will always be in my life. I will always love you and you're not just a part of me. You are all of me. Janelle even signs the message, your wife.
But when police ask Janelle about her relationship with Jamie, she lies. Is there any electric boyfriend? No. No. No. He's just a really good friend.
Does he want to be your boyfriend? I'm just like a really good friend. But police have evidence that shows that's not true. We located photographs and a cell phone and the photographs show them kissing at one point. What do you think Jamie?
I'm nice to everybody. He told me how he worked on computers. He could build him from the bottom up. He did more than work on your computer. He worked on your daughter too.
Yeah. And I didn't know that for a long time. He was interested in her or vice versa. It was secret. Police also know that Jamie got dragged into this online feud. And his feelings for Janelle pit Jamie against his own cousin.
Janelle convinced Jamie that Billy Jean Hayworth and Billy Payne were targeting Janelle. And sending her death threats threatened to rape her threatened to kill her. He started having problems with Billy Payne at work. They had gone into an argument down there. And some of the people had heard Jamie say something about slicing his throat.
Billy's throat had been slashed. So yes, that's the reason that we brought Jamie Curdie. We just asked him, Hey, would you take a photograph? And sure enough, he said that he would. That didn't go very well. Jamie is more involved with Janelle than what he was letting on to us.
That's when we were agent law and agent Hannah basically confronted him about the deception of some of the answers of the questions. You can tell he's nervous. We confront him with the results of the polygraph. You can tell that he is apprehensive about talking. We sort of, you know, asking the same questions. You know, what's your all's relationship? What's yours and Janelle's relationship?
And you know, he kept on saying they were friends. But eventually Jamie changes his tune. He starts singing. Jamie finally admitted that he went to the house. Jamie said that he was involved in it. He didn't do much, but he had told us that Buddy had been the one to have shot the two people.
And he said something about on the lines that, you know, he was the one that did the cutting of the neck. Jamie would formally charge on the status of February. We put him back in the sale. He wasn't going anywhere. Now that Jamie's on the hook, he agrees to help real in his alleged partner in the double murder, Janelle's father, Marvin Buddy Potter.
We asked Jamie if he made a phone call to Margaret. If Margaret would admit to anything during the phone call, he said I think he might. It's time to mourn in Mountain City, Tennessee. Millie Payne and Billie Jean Hayworth are late to rest. The murdered couple survived only by their infant son.
I'm just as shocked today over my friends Bill Millie Jean losing their life over someone who created her own pill. Days later, Jamie curd confesses and IDs the killer as Buddy Potter. Investigators then have curd call Potter hoping he'll incriminate himself. While on their fingers, you got rid of everything. It was from Billie Jean. Okay, I'll make you feel better.
We never did really fine. The weapon that was used to kill Millie Payne and Billie Jean Hayworth. We took Buddy Potter's statement that he took care of it to mean that he'd gotten rid of the murder weapons. With Jamie locked up, it's back to the Potter house. But this time, Buddy's not so welcoming to investigators.
We knew he had a weapon. And at one point we thought he made a gesture to us. What kind of gesture? He's going to do like this and we grabbed his arm. My father hugged on us and treated us like we were angels. He was a very protective father and at all cost he was going to protect his wife and daughter.
Down at the sheriff's office, Buddy, who's in jeans, a red sweatshirt and handcuffs, settles into an easy chair for some hard talk with that pair of TVI agents. You know, when you eat rice, stay on the spoon. That's what you think. Then somebody told you, I'm going to kill somebody. But Buddy Potter is no Jamie Kern.
Good thing that's not just a gas, it's not a good feeling. It's a no. Okay? We know. That's funny. It's not a feel of Billie Payne. I'm not going to. That's something I didn't do.
He denied everything. And we, Christim and Christim and Christim. Come on, it's going to be a picture of my family, start with. I did not. Tell me what happened. I don't know.
The agents repeatedly assured Buddy they understand how he must have felt. I believe this big daddy, they've threatened to take your little cracker head off. Finally, at one point he starts to say, when people are threatening your daughter's life. You've been born to rape her because she's a bird.
Investigators are getting the sense that Buddy might be ready at last to confess. Just not to them. Special Agent Lott has an idea. I made the suggestion. The buddy would you like to call Bob and tell her first before you tell us.
And he said yes. So, will you leave him back by called Barbara. Barbara. Yeah. Before you find out from somebody else, once you know, I was involved in it. I did it.
I know the fans. It calls what all they've been trying to do. Do you know? I did it. That's as close to a capacity as we got.
I wasn't confessed to it. Yeah, but there's questions about that. So why would he admit to it? Why would he confess? When they took him, they took no oxygen. They took no medication. And they interviewed him for hours. When his oxygen gets left, he says things that don't make sense or are incorrect.
Authorities beg to differ. Saying even without his oxygen tank and medication, Potter was lucid and understood the questions. Now the question becomes, who convinced what he Potter, his family was in danger. Why would your father go and shoot those two people? I don't know. No idea. No idea.
He said that your father was always protective of you. Yes, but I don't think he would kill over silly stuff like this. Authorities say it didn't seem silly to Buddy Potter. He very tearfully recounted that these people would put a bounty on his daughter's head that they had threatened to rape her, cut her up into pieces. And you could tell from the way he said that he believed it.
When I found out that they had arrested Marvin Potter and Jamie, I knew what it was over. It was over Janelle and the stuff that she had pretty much put in her head. He said he was trying to protect you. He said that they had threatened that they would chop you up and rape you and kill you. Yes. Is that what you told him? Because they weren't telling him that directly. Somehow he had to be getting word that these people were going to do some pretty serious harm to you.
He would go and tell him. And there was people that were telling him that there was people out there hurt me to get me. Case closed. Far from it. Buddy Potter and Jamie Kurt, according to investigators, they're not even the half of it.
You start to realize that this is bigger than just Marvin, Buddy Potter. This is something to do with the other people in this house. Exactly. Exactly. More mystery, more murderers, and now a mastermind. A new character enters the story. A reported CIA assessor.
Why killing a lie killing people? All part of what prosecutors call the craziest, stupidest, deadliest catfishing scheme you have ever seen. This is where Billy Payne and Billy Jean were murdered in this house. There's no calls. There's no calls. I'll make anyone else. They're watching.
This was one of the biggest craziest things that happened here. You give him the pictures of the people that you say are taunting you. You don't think he's going to do anything about it? Did you ever want Billy Jean and Billy Payne to die? No. Never. You didn't even want them dead? No. I didn't even want them hurt.
It appeared that there were some type of conspiracy here that they kept referring to a guy named Chris. Who was Chris? I was the eye agent. Tall. Bon hair in blue eyes. Jason Bourne. Did he ever talk about the kinds of things he did for work? He did. More than those things.
No, I'm killing people. I think someone else was playing names with our minds, our computer, how like. There is nothing in your lives that has prepared you to understand the Potter family. If you had to describe Jean- Allen Barbara with one word, what would you use? Evil. That's what I would say evil.
What kind of person would take a revolver to a man who's sleeping and shoot him in the face and then go to a woman who's running away with a child and infinite in her arms? Cold blooded and shoot on the side. He's not cold blooded. The whole thing's so sad. I'm so sad they died.
It's always bothered me that it had to involve my family. The situation of two people being murdered in their own home was a great shot. And I think there was some relief once Marvin and Jamie were arrested. The shootings of Billy Payne and Billy Jean Hayward seem close to being solved. But unlike horseshoes and hand grenades, close doesn't count in a murder case.
In authorities are wondering whether all the killers had actually been caught. While Buddy Potter is interrogated, other investigators search the Potter home and pick up truck. I was left there along with other investigators to conduct a search of the Potter residence in, you know, the city. In an attempt to look for ammunition, any type of firearms that would be for a 38 special or a 9mm. They were searching the house.
Yes, they did do that. Did they go into your room? No, they went to my parents room first. And then they went to the second bedroom that we had where my dad would keep his clothes and his stuff and then my room and then the computer room. There's Deputy Joe Woodard and a stunned looking Barbara and Janelle Potter during the search.
So did you notice anything odd in the house or anything unusual? Whenever the investigators went downstairs, there was a lot of firearms. We had rifle, shotguns, semi, I mean it's just one of those. An arsenal? An arsenal, basically, yes.
Guns in the basement, guns in the bedroom, guns in the dresser drawer, guns under the mattress. There's even an ammo belt on his oxygen tank and knives. Lots of knives all over the house, even hanging from the antlers on the wall. The search also turns up pictures printed from Facebook, including one of the recently murdered Billy Jean Hayward. Even found pictures of the victims in the living room.
You found pictures of the victims in the living room? Yes. Investigators say about seven months before the murders, Janelle grabbed this photo of Billy Jean Hayward from Facebook, emailed it to herself, then printed it off. Subject line, Billy Horr. A printed out picture of Billy Jean Hayward with the title Horr.
Which is kind of an odd thing to find after someone has been murdered in their house holding their baby. Exactly. You printed out a picture of her and wrote Bage Crust up. No, my dad wanted pictures of who was bothering me. So you gave your dad pictures of the people who were bothering you?
Yes. Why don't you do that? He just wanted to know if someone was harassing me, he would want to know who they were. Just then, Barbara Potter does something she will come to regret. Barbara was sitting on the couch next to Chief Investigator Joe Woodard who was logging the evidence.
At one point Barbara picks up a stack of papers, looks at him, then all of a sudden she ripped it in half, and I asked after, and I said, give me those pieces of paper. Why did you fold up the picture of Billy Jean? I tried to hide it and tear it up. I didn't, and I tried to explain that over and over. You didn't do that.
I was tired and I was kind of nervous. I said, I'm getting bored. I just started doing that. Not thinking that there was even a picture in there because I didn't know it was there. And then whenever I picked it up, I just made a little tear and I thought it was just fresh.
You didn't rip it half. Authorities aren't buying it. They charge Barbara with tampering with evidence. They also see what may have been Barbara and Janelle's fondest possession, the family computer. I believe there was just one desktop computer that they all used, Janelle and Barbara.
Marvin didn't get on the computer at all, that I know. I don't think I've ever heard him say anything about being on the computer. Remember how the bullet that killed Billy had been scratched, marked with an X? Investigators find similar 38 caliber bullets in Buddy's pickup. Marvin had taken an I from scratched X's into the tip of the bullet to basically create hollow points.
Investigators also discover something in the bed of Buddy's pickup that will prove to be even more incriminating in the long run, not just for Buddy. They noticed several bags of shredded paper. So they went ahead, closed everything back up, and the vehicle was then transported to the TBIs. They transported to the TBI lab in Knoxville, Tennessee. Those shreds of evidence leave investigators to a shadowy figure.
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I'm buying Janelle. Immediately. Mm-hmm. Because I mean it was her fault. She was the one that we was friends with and she was the one that started to lies.
Janelle should have been held just as accountable as they have. Billie Jean's sisters Beverly and Jamie say even before the murders they believed Janelle was the troublemaker. She'll see attention to the attention getter and why she would do the same thing to Billie Jean. She would follow them around all the time. Billie would call me and she'd be like Janelle's behind me.
There she is again. I mean it's constantly. If you had to describe Janelle and Barbara with one word what would you use? Evil. That's what I would say evil.
It was several months after the arrest of Jamie and Buddy that I came into the case. I knew there was some thought in the community that the women were behind the killings but they hadn't been charged. I think that Janelle and Barbara were the ringleaders. I think they were the ones that were the manipulators and I think they convinced Marvin and Jamie to do something awful to Billie Jean and they followed through with it. Early on we wanted to charge Barbara and Janelle but really didn't have enough.
We mentioned yesterday about Potter's daughter. She was in court today as an observer although she has not been charged with any crime at this point. Prosecutors say she is at the center of this investigation. They say she is the common link to all of the parties involved. Throughout the investigation Buddy maintained that Barbara and Janelle really didn't have anything to do with the homicides.
He acted unilaterally in an attempt to protect his family. Now investigators take note of Barbara Potter's conversation with Jamie Kurt when he made that phone call to the house after his confession. Whenever Jamie had called their residence Barbara was the one that first answered the phone. Really? Yeah.
Let's go and I did it over. Yeah. Well that's wonderful. We've been praying our hearts out. Janelle you saw an angel a day.
Come in the computer room. We've all been praying so hard. And you know she was asking how did the polygraph go? Did you have a lie detector? Yeah.
And you passed it. Yeah. Well that's wonderful. I'm so glad I'm so glad I'm here. And investigators are even more suspicious of Barbara's reaction when her husband calls and confesses to murder.
To now Barbara. After his confession he made a recorded phone call to his wife Barbara where he told her that I did it. I killed him. Before you found out from somebody else I want you know I was involved in it. I don't understand.
And immediately Barbara turns into mama bear saying oh no honey you didn't you were right here the whole time. Tell him that you didn't do it. I saw you. There's no way you could have done it. You were right here next to me all night.
You don't have the rest and you don't have the oxygen. I know. I'm sorry. I'm just you don't matter to more. I have an earth structure.
No. I think that an earth-checking you to cover what's my neuron and your oxygen mother. But you needed to say you know you're not here. I don't think she was really shocked. It's just like I think she was shocked she was probably shocked that he told.
But I don't think that she was shocked that he had done it because in my mind I think she knew that he did it. I don't know that he did it. As far as I know he was in my home all night he was in that lounge chair asleep. Not in bed though. He sat up at night every night because of what was happening.
And when I woke up at seven o'clock he was in bed. I thought he was in lounge chair. He came to bed. I didn't hear him come to bed. She was telling Marvin that you didn't have anything to do with that.
I saw you were here all night. If it's just not you're going to be sure to not stay back. Yes sir, I'm going to say yes. She was trying to convince him that no you didn't do this. If you had to stay five six, you know that I have to have six, you know that I'm going to stay five six.
You can't always think of him half an hour. If you just stay one seven you're not. I'm going to say yes. I found you. In that call Janelle also encourages her father to claim he's innocent.
Guys, are you okay? No Janelle. Seven so it's good. Honey don't worry about it. Just take care of yourself.
Janelle, but this isn't right. You didn't do anything worse. You're so fine. You didn't have to go through this. In 2013 Buddy Potter is found guilty of the murders of Billy Payne and Billy Jean Hayworth getting two consecutive life sentences.
If Barbara and Janelle no more than they're saying, authorities suspect those three trash bags found in Buddy's pickup could contain a shredded paper trail. We took those three documents over ages to spend a month of our lives taking those back together. What they were were printouts of emails, printouts of instant messages, printouts of pictures from Facebook. Emails from Barbara, emails from Janelle. Authorities said that Buddy Potter didn't have much use for the computer.
So they said that Barbara would pull the family protector into the online war of words by printing out the alarming emails and social media posts and anything she wanted him to see. Barbara, tells Buddy about everything that goes on and sort of gets him all upset because Janelle's upset because he's afraid somebody's going to hurt them. But some of those emails also talk about murder. You know they talked about killing Billy, killing Billy Jean. It appeared that there were some type of conspiracy here.
They kept referring to a guy named Chris that supposedly a CIA operative or something. Who was Chris? I'm not sure. No, I don't know. I don't know.
When Jamie Carter was interviewed at the end he asked. Here's to the CIA. The CIA. Oh. Very strange question to me.
I just got to see the CIA. I had certainly never experienced anything like this in my career to that point and I can say a decade later that I haven't seen anything else like it since. We knew that they had to be looking at a computer somewhere because they're the type that's always got to be doing something on a computer. We are going to the library right in the middle of town. Law enforcement isn't ready to close the book on the murders of Billy Payne and Billy Jean Hayworth.
Investigators follow Barbara and Janelle photographing their Ford Explorer outside. So we make contact with the library and the library say that they usually came here. So they called us whenever they were here. The Johnson & Shires Department did keep an eye on the Potter women and there is surveillance video of them going to the local library. They videotaped them at setting up these two computers and they got them as they walked through and they even went and was shining the key fob camera through the books just so that we can see what they were doing it.
They were logging on to topics, logging into their email, logging onto Facebook and just continuing this narrative of Janelle being able to see the story. Not a crime but evidence investigators say of how obsessed these two women are with what people are saying about them online even after two people have been murdered. It shows Janelle has to have a computer to know what's going on and you know what are they saying about her that way she can reply back. And now enters one of the spookiest characters ever to appear in a murder investigation. His name is Chris.
After we did subpoenas and search warrants and got emails and message records, text message records, we started seeing this name Chris pop up. Barbara is talking back and forth to supposedly a CIA agent named Chris. When Jamie Kurt makes his confession everything's done. There's silence in the room and Jamie just all of a sudden asks, I've got one question I need to ask you. I think what's that?
See how you hear? See how you hear? Mike and Scott were sort of shocked by you know where did that even come from? The officers now have no idea what he was talking about. I just met a CIA. I'm called to a city workshop.
He assumed and probably hoped that the CIA was on the other side of that door ready to take this case away from the TV eye and set him free. Who is Chris? He was the CIA agent. Tall, Juan Heron, Blue House. Jason Borner. What kind of stuff did he do?
He said he was down here to protect me, protect my parents. He communicated with them through Janelle's email account through her Facebook. They were tight as could be. They were close. Barbara would receive emails from this guy Chris, but the emails were still coming from Janelle Potter's email address.
Do you find it on that Chris was written from your personal account that all those emails were written from your personal account? Yes. And you never noticed that? You never asked the question? All of that correspondence is not a single question.
Hey, why is this person running for my account? Yes, I never showed up. But yes, I had asked how I emailed him through my email. And I said, you know, how did you get my screen name password? I changed my password lots of times. I've done everything.
It really does seem like bad fantasy fiction. A secret agent mixed up in a small-town drama falling for a damsel in distress. He would never show up in person. I would ask him to come over and meet me. Nothing.
How'd you feel about him? Well, he was my friend. He wasn't just a friend. He was... From the email that I read, it seemed like you guys were very, very intimate.
We weren't. Actually, he told my mom he wouldn't marry me at one point. Janelle says this, Chris seems to know her as well as she knows herself. He would say things like, well, I saw you today and he would tell me what I was wearing. What I was doing, how my hair was. And I was like, okay, this is weird.
Fun candy. He really weird. Chris even emails Janelle's account, gushing about Janelle. She just put up some new picks on Facebook you might want to look. She is cute. And love advice, tips on how to be a better boyfriend to Janelle.
There were some Chris emails out there where Chris would suggest, why don't you get Janelle to go out with you tonight? And take her out somewhere. Here's romantic trade craft CIA Chris probably did not pick up it Langley, but he offers it to Jamie. Make sure you have candles and a card, make the bed really pretty, and just love on her. She is a wonderful, sweet, caring girl.
But Chris also has a cold streak, and he's supposedly a bloodthirsty assassin. Did he ever talk about the kinds of things he did for work? He did. What were those things? I like killing people.
CIA Chris claims he's monitoring Billy Payne and Billy Jean Hayworth. Has their house bugged, phones tapped, says he knows they're up to no good. He was watching these people, he said that we're harassing her on the computer. He would say how upset he was, why would anyone want to mistreat me? He got mad.
Yes. How mad did he get? He got mad. Tell me he got really mad. He wanted to hurt everybody.
Who specifically did he want to hurt? I think it was Bill, Billy Jean. Everyone who was picking on me. Anyone that picked on me he was after. The email show CIA Chris is angry. Authorities say he and Barbara talk about settling scores.
This was actually in the shredded documents that were found in the truck. She writes to Chris, but is so mad and I'm 100% behind whatever happens. You guys meet when you are ready Chris. Maybe bud can you CIA guns, et cetera, for his protection. Get the jobs done, you know.
They all need to go and the ones left need to be given a big scare as they watch and wonder. Am I next? That's chilling. The job is obviously the murder. Absolutely. Job needs to get done.
Absolutely. But blood can't do it by himself. He needs CIA guns with him. At this point, identifying this fantastic character, CIA Chris, becomes key to closing this murder case. Who is Chris? Is Jamie Kurt Chris?
Do you know? I don't know. Can't do this. I think we're done there. We're done.
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They even throw rocks in the yard there just to leave a message with Billy Jean's name on it, with Bill's name on it. Their guardian angel, C.I.A. Chris, seems to be missing in action. But when authorities take a closer look at the computer seized from the Potter house, they have a Eureka moment. And that's because the IP address on Chris's emails leads back to only one place.
Everyone of them pointed straight back to Barbara and Janelle's home address. It was the same IP address, meaning that the emails were all generated at that house. Authorities develop a theory that Janelle's a sort of Kaiser Sose of the keyboard. Remember him from the movie The Usual Suspects? I work for Kaiser Sose.
There is no Kaiser Sose. Creating the identity of Chris to con those closest to her and convince them that she's in danger and needs help. Once we started looking at the communications between the Potter family, between Chris, between Jamie Kurt, that's when we started building the case against Barbara and Janelle. Investigators have their theory but no definitive proof. At least not until the Potter women show up at the Sheriff's office to file complaints of harassment.
That's when authorities devise a test. I had them top house statements so that we can see how Barbara writes and see how Janelle writes. The reports that they made about this alleged harassment, the word choice, the spelling, the grammar, the punctuation, was compared against these emails. And it was interesting that this Chris character had the same spelling mistakes, had the same grammar mistakes as Janelle. That's when the pieces started falling into place.
Authorities believe that Janelle wrote messages as Chris to her mother Barbara that falsely reported threats of rape and murder by the victims. Barbara would take this information and show it to buddy. Look what they're trying to do. Look what they're trying to do. They finally just pushed him to his limit.
Marvin Potter and Barbara Potter truly believed these people were out to harm Janelle. They really thought that people were out to kill her. She knew exactly what to do to get to her mom. She knew exactly what to do to get to her dad. Janelle manipulated everybody that she dealt with.
Janelle was writing these Chris emails. Janelle was pretending to be the CIA agent. She was masterminding a murder conspiracy. The events that she set in emotion ultimately resulted in the death of two innocent people. So she's catfishing her mom from the same house from the same computer.
It's hard to believe that you could do that from the same house. This is the worst catfishing I've ever heard of. Yeah, I mean it's beyond absurd. In all catfish cases, at some point the victim of the catfishing is guilty of some degree of being naive. Barbara has no idea that Janelle is using the same computer and her own email address to create the fictitious Chris.
She bought it, hook line and sinker. I don't think she created anyone. I think someone else was playing games with our minds, our computer, our life. But Janelle's mother Barbara is about to go from naive to nefarious. And in the email exchanges with Chris sure sounds like she really wants Billy Payne and Billy Jean Hayworth dead.
In one email, Barbara writes, we've had enough. No one wants to kill anyone, but we will. Why did you write to Chris that you wanted them dead? I didn't. Yeah, you did. When these emails.
Well, you can believe those emails if you want. I never want anyone dead. I would never plan a murder. That is not me. And you write, I will kill if I have to. Not just hurt, but kill. That's not me. That is not me.
Barbara says someone hacked into her email, but authorities don't buy it. They say that her writing style from the harassment complaints matches what's in the emails to Chris. The more I studied, the more I realized these crimes do not happen without these two women prodding these men alone. A year and a half after the murders of Billy Payne and Billy Jean Hayworth, Barbara Potter and her 32-year-old daughter Janelle are under arrest for murder. We finally got the word from a DA to go ahead and arrest.
From mother and daughter charged with murder. She was killing a Johnson County couple. Barbara and Janelle Potter are charged with first-degree murder of Bill Payne Jr. and Billy Jean Hayworth. Hi, John. Good to see you. I think I said hallelujah about time.
Authorities claim Janelle's motive for creating Chris was jealousy. If Janelle couldn't have Billy Payne, nobody could. Janelle had a crush on Bill Payne and the Chris emails start after Billy Jean Hayworth moves in with Bill Payne and gets pregnant. Chris would talk about the baby. The baby tower. They were calling that damn baby. That baby needs to die.
No one talks that way about an infant. Other than a woman perhaps who is jealous that that's not her infant. Janelle is behind bars at the Johnson County Jail in 2015 when she and her attorney sat down for an interview with me about the case. You don't have any responsibility for the murder of Billy Payne, Billy Jean. I don't know. No. No. No. No. No. No, you hated them. No, I didn't.
You hated them enough to tell your father that they were really torturing you. And you must have hated them if what you say is true that they were harassing you time after time again. I don't know how you come. I just disliked them. I wanted to quit. I wanted to harassment to stop. I went through a lot with them.
But I never wished them dead. I never wanted them dead. And then I bring up Chris. Chris was you. You were Chris. You invented him. No, I didn't.
You didn't. No. It just happened to be from your email. Happened to know all the most intimate details about you. And it just so happened that the only emails Chris has ever written are exclusively about Janelle.
No. It is. He was right in my mom and he was right into Jamie. Of course from your computer with your fingertips. It was from your eye. I don't think we're going to get into that. She said that.
Everything leads back to Chris. Chris apparently created this scenario. She stated she's not Chris and that's what she maintains. You can do this. Janelle Potter shuts down in tears and walks out of our interview.
Janelle may deny the authorities allegations that she is Chris and that she's behind the online threats. But when this case actually does go to trial, you're never going to believe who shows up. My name is Christopher. Jayden. Turns out Chris isn't total fiction.
In the Johnson County community, there is an immense amount of anticipation for this trial. I mean, this was one of the biggest craziest things that had happened to yours. The interest in it never really died down. In the trial of a mother and daughter charged with murder for the 2012 deaths of a Johnson County couple underway right now in Jonesboro. The biggest factors in Barbara Janelle's trial was making the jury understand that all of this drama was being driven by Janelle.
It was about Janelle, by Janelle, for Janelle. There is nothing in your lives that has prepared you to understand the Potter family. Investigators realize that there are even more people than they thought caught off in Janelle's web. Turns out Janelle does know a real person named Chris. We were able to get Chris Jayden, the real Chris, to come down to court.
My name is Christopher Jayden. We determined what Chris Jayden was a guy that was in high school with. She was one of those kids that was very strange. It ends up he was a police officer in Delaware. We asked him directly, do you work for the CIA?
Him saying no. I think that that kind of put a face on the faceless CIA threat that Janelle always had in her back pocket. But Cameron Hider, who represented Janelle, tried to present her as not capable of doing something like this. She is not capable of directing anyone to commit murder. It's just not in her.
Janelle's defense attorney even called an expert to testify about Janelle's level of intelligence. Mary severely impaired she's talking pretty much about HIV. She may be operating on fourth grade level, but she's got a PhD in manipulation. Even kids can manipulate their parents and she did it to the heel. She always had my parents to go to and then she had promised to go to the parrot.
Would you say that she was intelligent? She was more intelligent than people gave her credit for? In what way? Manipulative. She was good at school work, but she was good at working people.
Yes. It's very difficult for Barbara to discern what is fact and what's fiction. She has been catfished. Prosecutors say that despite Barbara being entangled in Janelle's manipulation, she still bears responsibility for the murders. And prosecutors have found evidence that they say shows that Barbara knew exactly what was going to happen to Billy Payne and Billy Jean Hayworth.
She had emailed herself a link to a Billy Graham article saying, can God forgive a murderer? Couple weeks before the murders, you had searched, can God forgive a murderer? No, I didn't. That's not me. No, I did not. I saw that in court and I said, where did that come from?
Why would I do that? I don't want anybody to hurt. Today, the state called six witnesses to the stand, one of which we've been anticipating all week. Mr. Jamie Kurt.
We had worked out a plea deal with Jamie Kurt in exchange for his cooperation. I can't kill nobody. I mean, haven't I gotten to be able to use this to you? Thanks. Looking back on it, do you feel like you've been manipulating anybody by part of my family? Yes.
If you're wanting the case to be everyone sitting around a table, mapping out how they're going to go do the killing. We never had that. Our belief was that cozying up to Jamie was an effort to get Jamie conditioned to assist Buddy. Jamie Kurt ultimately pleaded guilty to facilitation of first degree murder and received two concurrent sentences of 25 years. It's a story of a manufactured conflict born out of the mind of a very poor, lonely, 30-year-old woman.
One thing that was very telling about Janelle being involved in the preparation for the killing is the text messaging she does with Jamie up through the morning. She's telling Jamie, leave your cell phone at home. The message is on there, you know, showed that starting to truck and he's on his way. And then all of a sudden the text messaging ends. And presumably around five in the morning, Buddy picks up Jamie and they drive over there.
So that, to me, linked her knowing exactly what was going to happen. Where's the evidence? Easy to say, hard to breathe. This was an act of an overprotective father who went way too far. My client is not culpable.
Marvin Potter is behind bars and is fully culpable for these homicides, as is Jamie Kurt. This may have been more than what Barbara or Janelle intended, but that doesn't change what they did. That doesn't change how they manipulated Buddy Potter and Jamie Kurt into taking this drastic, horrible action. Yet, as in this case, it's been completed. Now, Matthew, to obstruct you as to the law.
It was up to a jury to decide whether this duo, Janelle Potter and Barbara Potter, were capable of plotting a double murder. Now the jury must deliberate the Potter women's fate. The families of the victims were in court today. It was just like you're sitting there on Pins and Needles. Now family loyalties begin to frame. I'm not going to cover anybody else. Take care of myself right now.
You went ticket for your daughter? Less than 24 hours after closing arguments, the jury delivers a verdict in Barbara and Janelle's double murder trial. The families of the victims were in court today. It was just like you're sitting there on Pins and Needles. It's been physically emotionally exhausting. You will best bring the jury in, please.
We the jury funded the defendant Janelle Potter, guilty first rumor. Barbara and Janelle were both found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. Barbara was also convicted of tampering with evidence. It's a release that the people most responsible are going to be guilty. It was hard. We have justice. This part's over, but it won't never be ever. I think about it every day.
I know. Me. God knows me. Did you ever want Billy Jean and Bill Payne to die? No. Never.
You didn't even want them dead? No. It seems to me that you are either completely innocent and blameless in this, or you are an exquisite liar. Oh, well. Well, what do you believe?
The victims' families have the last word at a sentencing hearing with Billy Payne's mother addressing the potters directly. Barbara, you wanted to know? Do you want to hang on? Yeah, you want to hang on. If I have to forgive any of you and stay out of here, I'll see you later.
Janelle Potter, go here by sentence to you. Determine the prison for life. Barbara Potter, go here by sentence to you to imprisonment for life. Barbara Potter's post-conviction attorney was able to latch on to a conflict of interest that her trial council had by representing both Barbara Potter and her husband. So she gets a new trial and starts back from square one. Rather than go through all of that, she had requested to enter into the plea agreement.
I have a thing conscious about having a part of this, but I'm a part of it because I've been pulled into it. You wouldn't take it for your daughter? I love her, but I'm not going to serve life for her now. So years after our conversation where Barbara insisted she was innocent, she finally admits guilt. Barbara pleads guilty to facilitation of first-degree murder.
Her original sentence was life without parole. This plea agreement changes that, making her eligible for parole. Janelle and Buddy Potter also filed for appeal, but they were denied. This is a story that has shaken that little mountain town for over a decade now, and what remains etched in everyone's minds is the memories of the victims. Billy Payne and Billy Jean, and their infant son Tyler.
It's the little boy just thinking about him just breaks my heart. You're lucky enough to meet people who I think touch everybody they come in contact with, and that was Bill and Billy Jean. They were just always happy and love life. And above all, the couple loved their son Tyler. After the murders, he was taken in by his maternal grandmother. He's now 12 years old.
Meanwhile, Janelle's a secret boyfriend and co-defendant, Jamie Kerr, has now been released from prison on parole. He declined to be interviewed. That is a program for tonight. I'm David Newer. And I'm Jeff Roberts from all of us here at 2020 and ABC News. Good night.
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