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Case 180: Bill Payne & Billie-Jean Hayworth

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Jannel Potter and Chris Paine

Jannel had invented the online persona of chris, masquerading as him. She was able to manipulate her mother to convince her gallible father and boy friend to murder her enemies as chris. With the feud, at no point did anyone who spoke on line with chris ever question his identity. No one noticed that chris's spelling, grammar and punctuation were similar to someone they spoke to daily for years. Yet it was clear as day to investigators examining the pages upon pages of communications published by chris. He was janel potter. It took almost a year but jannel's incessant emals and messages had the intended effect. Her mother, father and boy

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