58: The CRAZIEST Catfish Story & Facebook Feud That Led To Murder - Jenelle Potter

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🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Hey guys, hope you've all had a great week! Today we're going to be covering the crazy case of Jenelle Potter. Hope you enjoy listening! xoxo

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, I hope you're all doing well and welcome back to the Criminal Makeup Podcast.
0:15.5	Each episode we dive into the minds of some of the worst criminals in history and today we are
0:20.3	going to be talking about the case of Janelle Potter. So I don't even know where to begin with today's
0:28.1	case. This case is just absolutely baffling. When I first came across this case, I saw it
0:34.4	referred to as the Facebook catfishing murders and it instantly caught my eye because I was like,
0:40.6	oh, what do you mean Facebook catfishing? So I started to look into the case more and when I saw
0:47.7	some of the things that go on in this case, my jaw just hit the floor, I couldn't believe that
0:53.5	it was true. This whole story is centered around a woman named Janelle Potter, who at the time of
1:00.3	this case was living a very sheltered, extremely isolated life. Janelle did what a lot of people
1:08.2	sometimes do. She turned to social media, but she became obsessed with Facebook and I mean
1:15.2	obsessed to the extreme. It became her lifeline, a chance to finally make friends,
1:21.8	but unfortunately, Janelle, she did not always have the best intentions when she was online.
1:27.2	And I'm not going to obviously say what happens right here in the intro, you can have to listen
1:30.5	to the case, but there is some weird stuff that goes on with the CIA. Yet the CIA comes up in a
1:36.6	very unexpected way in today's case. So like I said, this case is baffling, it's hard to wrap your
1:41.9	head around actually what goes on. So as always, I've tried to make the story as simple as possible,
1:46.7	so it's easy to follow, but this one is a little bit of a head scratcher. So we've got a lot to
1:50.8	get through today, so let's dive in. Janelle Potter was born in 1982. I couldn't find an exact
2:02.3	birthday and she grew up just outside of Philadelphia with her mom, Barbara, dad, Buddy and her older sister
2:09.5	Christie. Now growing up, Janelle experienced what is best described as a very, very sheltered childhood.
2:17.0	Her parents were extremely protective over her. They wouldn't let Janelle do like regular things,
2:23.6	regular kid things they wouldn't allow Janelle to do, but they weren't like this over her sister,
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