Am I Next? (Rebroadcast)

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I'm sorry it happened. I mean, that's all I could tell you is they had been harassing and living crap, I don't mean. What kinds of things were people saying about you? That was a bad person, I was horrible threatening to get hurt. What started all this hatred? I've had my life threatened, my wife has been threatened to take me out, cut her head off. All part of what prosecutors call the craziest, stupidest, deadliest cat fishing 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 now one more. I didn't even know it was bad, can't say the fine, please. That call is coming from this house where Billy Payne lives with his fiance, Billy Jean Hayworth. Two neighbors stop by, they discover unspeakable horror. The back door is always unlocked, so he goes in, callers, nobody answers. He thought it was strange that Billy Jean's car is here, Billy truck is here, nobody's answering. So he goes down the hallway and finds Bill on the bed. Billy Payne is not moving, his face is bloodied. I can't find the pulse, I want to see his blood, he's mad. Oh my god. Blood on it. Oh my god. 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. We found Billy Jean laying in 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. 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. So there's no pulse, I know there's no pulse on him, I can't even want to do anything. There's no pulse on me, there's no pulse on him, there's blood. This was around 10.40 am 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 is hard to believe that there is 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. This situation, two people being murdered in their own home, murdered in the regiomis and the early morning hours was a great shock and nobody really knew what had happened. This is where Billy Paine and Billy Jean were murdered in this house. The enforcement officers took me to the crime scene back in 2015. And you're the first on the scene because you live pretty close to 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, they just opened it up, it's unlocked. It's sliding glass door and they just slide it out and walking. This is the kind of place where people don't really lock their doors, I guess. It walked right in. Was there any sign of scuffle, a fight, anything? Not. No sign of anything, not of that nature mode. It looked like Billy had just gotten out of the bed, that's where we found his body. What we understand, special agent Scott Lot with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation takes me into the home where the young couple was killed. This is the bedroom where the clay was found. Single shot. Single shot in the 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 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 Billie 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 this window, right? Yeah, first room. But Billy's bedroom was here and the child's room was next. 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 get. She was holding the baby. Once the intruder came in, she jumped up and ran out with the baby to try to get away. Police think Billy Jean ran into the baby's nursery and tried to shield him from the attack. But didn't take much time to get from that room to this room to shoot. No. And then this is five feet. Right. I think it takes a cold blooded person to see if somebody holding the baby. Was that the most shocking thing about this murder? You know, when that information got out, people were just starting about that. It's my community like this. You've been involved in police work and law enforcement for what, 30 years? Almost 30 years. Have you ever seen anything like this? Never seen nothing like this. 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. But contracted. Right. It's a home invasion double murder that has a small Tennessee mountain town on edge and authorities scratching their heads. When they first asked me if I knew anybody that would hurt them, 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. The squad's coming, can I hang up now, please? The details are even more horrifying. 36 year old Billy Payne is not only shot in the head, his throat is sliced. And 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, don't you? Yes, it is. Sure is. It's basically a point blank. I mean, it's just right there. Shook people up, huh? It did. Sure did. People thought there was a killer on the looks. Did you know the people who 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 it wasn't true, you know, I just. I don't know, it's like, impossible. I still don't think it's true. - Airby locked Billy. Billy was one of these type of people that was out going and was friends with everybody. He locked to get together with friends, go four willing with your truck into mountains, and you know, do stuff like that. Go camping. (upbeat music) - Billy worked at Parkdale Mills, 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. - It was a good person, fun, loving, outgoing, kind of person everyone would be around. She's like swimming, all big up in the ocean. She was a little. - The romance moves quickly, and 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 glow 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 says, "Sis, I'm in love." She finally found out what love really was. - I got a phone call telling me that she was gone. - Is this a way of shot her? Am I gonna just kill believe it, I was shot. You just don't ever think of something like that happening to your baby sister? - It was one of the artists' 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 clean very much forensic evidence from the scene? - There was very little. It was very clean scene. As far as physical evidence goes. - So no prints, no shell casings, no DNA left behind? - Not that we found no sure. - It was because whenever the suspects entered the house they didn't do anything else. They did not go through the drawers, the closet, 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 at the scene 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. - Billie Jean was laying in the floor in a semi-feetal 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 the bullet landed in the bouncy seat. It was amazing. You would think that we would have to 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. The bullet recovered from Billie'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. The price in after the first week was, it looked like a hit. - But contracted. - But they either had some training or they were self-taught. We didn't know. We initially started questioning family and friends. - Billie's father tells investigators that when he leaves for work at about 5.30 that morning, Billie is still sleeping and Billie Jean is feeding the baby. - Billie 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 he wasn't going to go to work. So he just left and went on to work. And that was sometimes 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, other victims. - Someone had mentioned that there was some kind of altercation or a grievance. - If someone had let you see everything that had gone on, defriending each other 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? - In 2012, the small town of Mountain City is very online. - A lot of people know about everything that goes on here, because of, you know, Facebook. - Back in 2012, there was Facebook, but there was a now-defront website called Topics. Topics became a big deal in Johnson County. - Where people can go in there and make their own topic and have discussions, and it's usually confined to different areas. Right 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 Potl, who will become a key player in this murder mystery. So let's start off in the beginning. Where did you grow up? - Grewd Lincoln at Square, Pennsylvania. - What was it like? - It was nice. Small town. Not everyone pretty much know everybody. - They moved to Mountain City from Pennsylvania in the early 2000s. From all accounts, Janelle was someone who didn't really leave the house very much. She lived most of her life online. The Potter family was known pretty well in Johnson County as keeping them 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 like a 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? - He said he was. - Is he allowed to talk about what he did? - No. Never. I just saw him as a general 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 still living with her parents is the chance of learning disabilities that were diagnosed pretty early in her life. Buddy and Barbara are protective and they barely let their daughter out of their sight. - What were the rules? What kind of rules were they? - Don't be out past, you know, 12 o'clock at night. No smoking, no drinking, no party, no drugs, and 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 in her mind, more young than her age, I think, you know. - Her parents had a lot of control over her. She was not allowed to use their computer unmonitored. She was not allowed to use her cell phone unmonitored. - 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 keep her indoors most of the time. Janelle did have some interactions in real life and these photos presented in court show Janelle with new friends, Billy Payne, and his sister Tracey. - I worked at the pharmacy in town and they were coming in and getting her medicine. And we felt sorry for Janelle because she was sheltered 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 last night calling her. Tell him about your relationship with Tracey. - 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 out to eat. Took her son different places. We were okay. - What did you think of Bill? - He was not. - Just nice? But Janelle says she's also being cyberbullied and hateful anonymous comments. began appearing on her Facebook page. Soon this war of words explodes online between Janelle and Billie Jean Heyworth, who Janelle accuses of starting that online feud. - What was her relationship like with Billie Jean? - Oh, she hated her. - From the get-go. - Mm-hmm, she had color all cons about names. - Now, at one point, they unfriend you on Facebook? - Um, I think that we did it to each other. I am friend of them, they are friend of me. - Who unfriended who first? - Um, I did Bill first, and I think Billie did me. And I am friend of the heart. - 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 beg them, please don't do this." - What kinds of things were people saying about you? - Just that was a bad person. I was horrible, threatened to get raped. Threatening to get hurt. - Must have been pretty scary. - Yes. - But why would people say this about you? - I don't know. - What started all this hatred? - I'm not sure. (gentle music) - And those are the exact same questions. Police want to ask the ponders, the day after Janelle's Facebook friends turned foes, are murdered. - The ponders, they leave, right, they leave, right up here. - So this is the house. - This is the house. - And you told them this is a conversation? You know, this is no search warrant. - Right, this is just something just to get some interviews, just to set down and talk about what type of problems that they all had with each other. - Hey! - How you doing? - Take the ponders, take the money, start off. - Unknown to the ponders, investigators record the interview. - What we're doing right now is investigating the tow house. - Thank you. - Very serious, man. Everybody always points fingers at us for something. - Well, no, there ain't nobody 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, it just started crashing on Billy Payne and Billy Jean A. Word. - They've been harassing me. They might drive away our property. And then yesterday, when I got on Facebook, it's when I got out and, you know, I'm sorry it happened. I mean, that's all I could tell you is they, they have been harassing the living craft of me. - Why would they be harassing me? - They came out to be a jealousy thing. - They said I was too fruity. - Buddy and Barbara Potter definitely saw their daughters of victim. They saw the Facebook posts. They saw the emails that were sent back and forth. They really thought that people were out to rape or people were out to kill her. - You never put on the internet, did you? You wish it, that were dead? - No. - You call her accident? - No. - I thought that'd be it. I just thought, "What if we leave the old?" That's all I've ever had. - Yeah. - What did you come away with? - I have nothing to do with it. I had in, did not have anything to do with it at all. - And so were you really suspicious when you walked away from that house? - We were suspicious, yes. (upbeat music) - Why are investigators suspicious? 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That still feels like your skin. Maybe it's Mavily. (gentle music) (upbeat music) 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, you-- - This is to find favorite friends for years. He's friend of our family. - Yeah, I have a friend. - He's a friend of all of us, to me. - Jamie Kurt was from Johnson County, had lived there his whole life. He was a pretty solitary guy, kept to himself. - Every time you see him, he's always wearing sunglasses. He says that the sun 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 Jeanelle's orbit thanks to Tracy, who set the shy Jeanelle up with her cousin. - So why did you think they set up Jamie and Jeanelle? - Well, Jamie didn't have a girlfriend and she really didn't have a boyfriend. So we just, that's the only time. I mean, they didn't look like they'd get together by naming. - Why not? - Well, Jamie was sort of ref looking, you know, greasy and she was neat. So, Jamie also moonlights fixing home computers around town. - The potters use Jamie as a person to come and fix their computers whenever something was wrong, which would give Jeanelle a reason to be able to see Jamie. - And when Jamie was there, Jeanelle would be allowed to go into the computer room and talk to Jamie and be around Jamie. So Jamie and Jeanelle got closer and closer. - But the potters didn't want Jeanelle dating and they certainly didn't want Jeanelle dating Jamie. - Jeanelle's mom and dad did not approve of Jamie. So Jamie was in love with her. So Jamie had purchased her a cell phone and he would come here and bring it and hide it in the bushes so she would kind of get it. - They started talking some. I believe that they would text message and instant message back and forth. They used email frequently. This undercover relationship between Jamie Kurt and Jeanelle 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, two hours at a time. - Wow. What would you talk about? - Our day, I don't know your time, about his life or about mine. - In typo-filled messages, Jeanelle 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." Jeanelle even signs the message, your wife. - But when police ask Jeanelle about her relationship with Jamie, she lies. - Jamie, do you like your boyfriend? - No. - No. - No, he's just a really good friend. - Does he want to be your boyfriend? - No, I'm just like, I'm really good friend, too. - 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. - Would you think of Jamie? - I'm nice to everybody. He told me how he worked on computers. He could build them 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. That 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 Jeanelle pit Jamie against his own cousin. - Jeanelle convinced Jamie that Billie Jean Hayworth and Billie Payne were targeting Jeanelle. [BLANK_AUDIO] her death threats, threatened to rape her, threatened to kill her. He started having problems with Billy Paine at work. They had got 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 Curry. We're just asking, "Hey, would you take a polygraph?" 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. So that's whenever Agent Locke and Agent Hanna basically confronted him about the deception of some of the answers of the questions. Jamie, those 11 questions, which ones do you think you have the most reaction? You can tell he's nervous. We can frighten him with the results of the polygraph. You can tell that he is apprehensive about talking. I think you had an error. We'll take care of this situation. I want to care if people mess with it to death. People ain't gonna mess with my girl or more. She's not my girl. You may say that out loud. You can do what you're hard to do. We sort of ask him the same question, "What's your all's relationship? What's yours and Janelle's relationship?" And he kept on saying they were friends. But eventually Jamie changes his tune, and 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 he was the one that did the cutting of the neck. Jamie was formally charged on the service of February. We put it back in the shell. He wasn't going anywhere. Now that Jamie's on the hook, he agrees to help reel in his alleged partner in the double murder, Janelle's father, Marvin Buddy Potter. We asked Jamie if he made a phone call tomorrow, if Marvin would admit to anything during the phone call. He said, "I think he might." It's time to mourn in Mountain City, Tennessee. Billy Payne and Billy Jean Hayworth are laid to rest. The murdered couple survived only by their infant son. I'm just as shocked today over my friend's Bill Bill Jean losing her life. Over someone who created her own hill. Days later, Jamie curred confesses and I dees the killer as Buddy Potter. Investigators then have curred call Potter hoping he'll incriminate himself. We never did really find the weapon that was used to kill Billy Payne and Billy Jean Hayworth. We took Buddy Potter's statement that he took care of it to mean that he had gotten rid of the murder weapons. With Jamie locked up, it's back to the Potter house, but this time, but he'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 in to an easy chair for some hard talk with that pair of TVI agents. But Buddy Potter is no Jamie-curd. Here's the thing. Why can't I? We've been best getting this case. We hope things keep going. We know you too. Okay. That's it. Wait a second. I said. And that's not just a guess. It's not. It's a good feeling. It's a no. Okay. We know. That's fine. I didn't kill him. I did not kill Billy Payne. I'm not going to miss something I didn't do. He denied everything and we pressed him and pressed him and pressed him. The agents repeatedly assured Buddy they understand how he must have felt. I believe you are sick and tired of the most precious person in your life being attacked in a ranch constantly. I know that. Okay. Ever since all this grass started, I've been, I've had my life. My life has been finished, they've threatened to take care of it all. Finally, at one point, he starts to say, when people are threatened in your daughter's life. You hear people telling you to take your daughter in a restroom and murder her. They want her raped her because she's a virgin. Investigators getting the sense that Buddy might be ready at last to confess. Just not to them. Special agent Lot has an idea. I made the suggestion Buddy would you like to call Barbara and tell her first before you tell us? And he said yes, so we'll let him make a phone call to Barbara. Barbara? Yes. Before you found out, somebody else told you now, I was involved in it, and I did it. I'm a son of a bitch. I'm on the fan because what all they've been trying to do to you and you know, I just wanted to tell you first, he told Barbara, I did it, and that's as close to the confessions we got from him. I was going to confess 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 slow, he says things that don't make sense or are incorrect. Authorities beg to differ, saying even without his oxygen tank in medication, Potter was lucid and understood the questions. Now the question becomes, who convinced Buddy 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 had 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 breasted 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 serious harm to you. He would go and tell him and there was people that would tell him that there was people out to 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 started 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 purported CIA assassin. Why are killing a lot of killing people? All part of what prosecutors call the craziest, stupidest, deadliest catfishing scheme you have ever seen. This is where Billy Kane and Billy Kane were murdered in this house. I mean, this was one of the biggest, craziest things that had happened years. You give him the pictures of the people that you say are taunting you. Hey, don't think he's gonna do anything about it. Did you ever want Billy Kane and Billy Kane to die? No, never. You didn't even want them dead. No, I didn't even want them hurt. It appeared that they were some type of conspiracy here. They kept referring to a guy named Chris. Who is Chris? I was the agent of tall, blonde hair and blue eyes. Jason Bourne. Did he ever talk about the kinds of things he did for work? He did. More of those things. I like killing people. I think someone else was playing games with our minds, our computer, our life. There is nothing in your lives that has prepared you to understand the Potter family. If you had to describe Janelle and Barbara with one word, what would you use? Aval. That's what I would say, Aval. You can do it, please. 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 infant in her arms? He's not cold-blooded and he's not cold-blooded. He's not cold-blooded. The whole thing is 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 shock. I think there was some relief once Marvin and Jamie were arrested. The shootings of Billy Payne and Billy Jean Hayworth seemed close to being solved, but unlike horseshoes and hand grenades, close, doesn't count in a murder case. And authorities are wondering whether all the killers have actually been caught. While Buddy Potter is interrogated, other investigators searched the Potter home and pick up truck. I was left there along with other investigators to conduct a search of the Potter resist in an attempt to look for ammunition, any type of firearms that would be for a 38-special or a 9-millimeter. 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, which 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-Engineal 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 and 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 Billie Jean Hayworth. Some 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 Billie Jean Hayworth from Facebook, emailed it to herself, then printed it off. The subject line, Billie Hor. A printed out picture of Billie Jean Hayworth with the title "Hor." It's just 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 "Bitchcross the Top." 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 would you do that? He just wanted to know because if he was out or if someone that was harassed 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 stopped her and I said, "Give me those pieces of paper." Why did you fold up the picture of Billie Jean? Try to hide it and tear it up. I didn't and I've tried to explain that over and over, but. You didn't do that. I was tired and I was kind of nervous. I said, "I'm getting more, I just started doing that." Not thinking that there was even picture in there because I didn't know it was there. Then whenever I picked it up and I just made a little tear and I thought it was just. You didn't rip it in 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 Barbara. Marvin didn't get on the computer at all that I know of. I don't think I've ever heard him say anything about being on the computer. Remember how the bullet that killed Billie had been scratched, marked with an X? Investigators find similar 38-calibre bullets in buddies pick up. Marvin had taken a knife and scratched X's into the tip of the bullet to basically create hollow points. Investigators also discovered something in the bed of buddies pick up that will prove to be even more incriminating in the long run, not just for buddy. They notice several bags of shredded paper. So they went ahead, closed everything back up and the vehicle was then transported to the TBI lab in Knoxville, Tennessee. Those shreds of evidence leave investigators to a shadowy figure. They kept referring to a guy named Chris that supposedly a C.I. Number 2, or something. Who is Chris? Just plump, dewy, hydrated skin that still feels like your skin. Find new grippy setting mist from Mavily New York. Maybe it's Mavily New York. Marvin Buddy Potter is in jail awaiting trial. And so is Janelle Potter's boyfriend, Jamie Kurt. But the feeling in town and at the courthouse is that justice has not been fully served. I buy him Janelle. Immediately. Because I mean it was her fault. She was the one that we was friends with and she was the one that started the lies. Janelle should have been held just as accountable as them. Billie Jean's sisters, Beverly and Janie say, "Even before the murders, they believed Janelle was the troublemaker." Chelsea, attention, she was attention-gitter, and she would do the same thing to Billie Jean. She would fall her them around all the time. Billie would call me and she'd like, "Janelle's behind me. There she is again." I mean, it's constantly. Aval. That's what I would say, "Aval." 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 ring leaders. I think they were the ones that were the manipulators and I think they convinced Marvin and Jamie to do something awful to Bill and 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 that 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. Did it go all right? Yeah. Really? Yeah. And they just let's go and that's it. It's over. Yeah. Well that's wonderful. We've been prying our hearts out. Janelle is all an angel today. Yeah. Coming to computer room and I did oh that's good. We've all been prying so hard. And you know she was asking how did the polygraph go? Did you have a live detector? Yeah. And he passed it. Yeah. I'm simply an angel. And investigators are even more suspicious of Barbara's reaction when her husband calls and confesses to murder. Janelle, Barbara, you know after his confession he made a recorded phone call to his wife Barbara where he told her that I did it. I killed them. And before you find out somebody else wants you to know I was involved in it and I did it. I know the fans. And immediately Barbara turns into mama bear saying oh no honey you didn't. You were right here the whole time. Tell them 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 no rest and you don't have your oxygen. I'm not yourself right now. I'm sorry. I just don't matter anymore. Have a nurse pressure? No. They said a nurse was checking you to cover what you're on and the rocks have been all right. But you needed to say you know you're not here. You're not here. I don't think she was really shocked. It's just like I think if 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 a 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 it. I saw you. You were here all night. She was trying to convince him that no you didn't do this. Nothing now. He was just saying I'm sorry but not I was here. I found this. In that call Janelle also encourages her father to claim he's innocent. Okay. Are you okay? No Janelle. Seven so excited. I mean don't worry about it. Just take care of yourself. Sam but this is all right. You didn't do anything worse. You are so fine. You have to go through this. In 2013 buddy Potter is found guilty of the murders of Billy Payne and Billie Jean Hayworth getting two consecutive life sentences. If Barbara and Janelle know 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 shredded documents whatever I just spent a month of her life taping those back together. And 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 Billie Jean. It appeared that there were some type of conspiracy here that you know they kept referring to a guy named Chris that supposedly a CIA operative or something. Who was Chris? I'm not sure. Now I don't know. I don't know. When Jamie Cardwell's interview at the end he asked, "Is the CIA here? Is the CIA out?" Very strange question to me. I had certainly never experienced anything like this in my career at 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 in 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 Billie Jean Hayworth. Investigators follow Barbara and Janelle, photographing their forward 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 judge kind of sheriff's Department did keep an eye on the Potter women and there is surveillance video of them going to the local library. They videotape them at setting up these two computers and they got them as they walk through and they even went and was shining at the key fob camera through the books just so that we could see what they were doing. They were logging onto topics, logging into their email, logging on to Facebook and just continuing this narrative of Janelle being a victim. 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, instant 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 Janie Kurt makes his confession, everything's done. There's silence in the room and Jamie just almost suddenly asks, I've got one question I need to ask you, and they go, what's that? Is the CIA here? CIA? No. Mike and Scott were sort of shocked by, you know, where did that even come from? The officers had no idea what he was talking about. I guess about the CIA, I'm going to tell them they're, they said it worked for a long time. He assumed and probably hoped that the CIA was on the other side of that door ready to take this case away from the TBI and set him free. Who is Chris? I was the CIA agent, tall, blonde hair and blue eyes. Jason Bourne. What kind of stuff did he do? He said he was down here to protect me, protect my parents. He communicated with them through e-mail account. They were Facebook, they were as tight as could be, and 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 odd that Chris was written from your personal account that all those emails were written from your personal accounts? Yes. And you never noticed that? You never asked the question. All of that correspondence, there's not a single question. Hey, why is this person writing from 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 or meet me, nothing. Had you feel about him? Well, he was a friend. I mean, he wasn't just a friend, he was from the email that I read. It seemed like you guys were very, very intimate. We were. Actually, you told my mom he wanted to 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. Uncanny. He was really weird. Chris even emails Jamie curd via Janelle's account, gushing about Janelle. He 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. He did. I'm killing. I'm killing people. The CIA Chris claims he's monitoring Billy Payne and Billie Jean Hayworth. Has their house bug, phones tapped, says he knows her 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, you know why would anyone win this treat me? He got mad. Yes. How mad did he get? I 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, Billie 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. And this was actually in the shredded documents that were found in the truck. She writes to Chris, "But it's so mad and I'm 100% behind whatever happens. You guys meet when you are ready, Chris. Maybe Bud can use CIA guns, etc. 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?" It's chilling. The job is obviously the murder. Absolutely. Job needs to get done. Absolutely. But Bud 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? Janelle? Meet new grippy setting mist from Mabelie, New York. Plump, dewy, hydrated skin that still feels like your skin. 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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 CIA Chris seems to be missing an 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. He was the same IP address, meaning that the emails were all generated at the house. Authorities develop a theory that Janelle's a sort of Kaiser Soze of the keyboard. Remember him from the movie The Usual Suspaks? I work for Kaiser Soze. There is no Kaiser Soze. 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 Curd, 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 the buddy, buddy, look, look what they're trying to do to Janelle, look what they're trying to do, and finally, they 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 said in the motion 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. 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, from these emails. - Well, you can believe those emails if you want. I didn't never want anyone dead, and 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 study, the more I realize these crimes do not happen without these two women prodding these men along. - 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 the DA to go ahead and arrest. - Our mother and daughter charged with murder. - Fused of killing the Johnson County couple. - Barbara and Janelle Potter are charged with first-degree murder of Bill Payne Jr. and Billy Jean Hayworth. - I don't enjoy it. 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 have. - 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, 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 challenge 2015 when she and her attorneys sat down for an interview with me about the case. - You don't have any responsibility for the murder of Billy Payne, Billy Jean. - No. - None. - No. - No, but 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 didn't hate him. I just disliked him. I wanted it to quit. I wanted the harassment to stop. I went through a lot with him, but I never wished him that. I never wanted him dead. - And then I bring up Chris. Chris was you. - No. - You are Chris. - And did him-- - No, I didn't. - He didn't. - No. - Just happened to be from your email. Happened to know all the most intimate details of value. And it just so happened to the only emails Chris has ever written are exclusively about you now. - No, because he was writing to my mom and he was writing to Jamie. - Of course, from your computer with your fingertips. It was from your IP address, from your email address. - I don't think we're gonna get into that. She said that. - She leads back to Chris. Chris apparently created this scenario. - She stated she's not Chris and that's what she maintains. - We can't 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 gonna believe who shows up. - My name is Christopher Jaden. - Turns out Chris isn't total fiction. - In the Johnson County community, there was an immense amount of anticipation for this trial. The interest in it never really died down. - 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 and 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 up in Janelle's web. Turns out Janelle does know a real person named Chris. - We were able to get Chris Jaden, the real Chris to calm down the court. - We determined what Chris Jaden was a guy that did hell with the high school with. - She was one of those kids that just very strange. - It ended up he was a police officer and Delaware. - When we asked him directly, "Do you work for the CIA?" And 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. - There is barely any fear of slogans, we have spoken too much for that H life. - She may be operating on a fourth grade level, but she's got a PhD in manipulation. You know, even kids can manipulate their parents. And she did it to the heeled. - She always had my parents to go to and she had promised to go to school to the pair of it. - Would you say that she was intelligent? - She was more intelligent than people gave her credit for. - In what way? - Manipulative. - So she wasn't good at school work, but she was good at working people. - Yes. - Especially her parents. - 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?" - A couple of 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?" Well, I want to do that. I don't want anybody murdered. - 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, having a gun and being able to use it's to you. - Thanks. - Looking back on it, do you feel like you've been manipulated anyway by a part of family? - Yes. - If you're wanting the case to be, everyone's sitting around a table, mapping out how they're gonna go do the killing. You know, we never had that. Our belief was that cosying 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 bored, globally 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." - His message is on there, you know, show 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 prove. - 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 Curd. - 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 Curd into taking this drastic horrible action. - The evidence, in this case, been completed. - Now I'm asking you to instruct 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 all pins and needles. - And now family loyalties begin to frame. - I'm not gonna cover anybody else. Take care of myself right now. - You wouldn't take a hit for your daughter? (dramatic music) - Less than 24 hours after closing arguments, the jury delivers a verdict in Barbara and Janelle's double murder trial. - It was just like you're sitting there all pins and needles. - It's been physically and emotionally exhausted. - You'll please bring the jury in, please. - We the jury. It was a very fun to defend it. Janelle, Bob, guilty of first-degree murder. Barbara made Bob, guilty of first-degree murder. 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 evils. It's a release that will keep the most response for it's going to be held accountable. And it was hard. We have justice. This part's over, but it will never be over. 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. No. It seems to me that you are either completely innocent and blame this in this, or you are an exquisite liar. Oh, well. Well. What do you believe? The victim's families have the last word at a sentencing hearing with Billy Payne's mother addressing the potters directly. What were you going to know if you're going to hang on the candle, or hang on the candle? And if I have to forgive any of you, and stay out of him, I'll see you in there. Janelle, potter, court hereby sentence you to determine the imprisonment for life. Barber potter's post-conviction attorney was able to latch on to a conflict of interest that her trial council had by representing both Barber potter and her husband. So she gets a new trial, it starts back from square one. Rather than go through all of that, she had requested to enter into the plea agreement. I have a clean conscience about having a part of this, but I'm a part of it because I've been pulled into it. You wouldn't take a hit for your daughter? I love her, but I'm not going to serve life for her now. So here's after our conversation where Barber insisted she was innocent, she finally admits guilt. A big deal. Barber 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 Billy and Billy Jean. They were just always happy and loved 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 secret boyfriend and co-offent and Jamie Kurd 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 Jambo Roberts from all of us here at 2020 and ABC News. Good night. Olen Shannon Maldonado, the director of Artesan and Technology Institute, Javi Lajja Kaupan Perusta. Valitzin Shopify, because of the murder and death of the victims of the murder, has helped the murder of the victims. We've been working hard to get the victims out of the murder. All the victims have been arrested, as the victims are arrested and arrested in the dashboard. The murder of the victims of the murder of the victims is also a common crime.