97. Belt Selfie: Why don’t people kill their friends?

Bad People

BBC

Society & Culture, True Crime, Unknown

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In 2015 a woman in Saskatoon was strangled by a belt. Did her friend do it? She has been strangled by a belt that lies next to her body - the same belt her best friend was wearing in a photograph of the two of them that was posted on Facebook earlier that evening. What can really be learned by what we choose to post online? And what might cause a friendship to take a violent turn? On this episode of Bad People, Dr Julia Shaw and Sofie Hagen explore the psychology of “breaking up” with friends, the role of social media for teens’ mental health, and why people so rarely murder their friends. CREDITS Presenters: Dr Julia Shaw and Sofie Hagen Producer: Laura Northedge Assistant Producer: Hannah Ward Editor: Anna Lacey Music: Matt Chandler Commissioning Executive: Dylan Haskins Commissioning Assistant Producer: Adam Eland #BadPeople_BBC Clip: The He Lab “About Lulu and Nana: Twin Girls Born Healthy After Gene Surgery As Single-Cell Embryos” Audio clips: CBS News and Saskatoon StarPhoenix

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:07.0	Break into a world of true crime on BBC Sounds,
0:11.0	with Lucy Wersley's Lady Killers.
0:13.0	This is a story of how an ordinary woman who witnessed the killing of her husband
0:18.0	found herself on trial for his murder.
0:21.0	And the laser is heist.
0:23.0	Soon, millions of dollars worth of banknotes
0:26.0	are spilling out of cash points around the world.
0:28.0	True Crime Podcasts.
0:30.0	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:33.0	Three, two, one.
0:37.0	Has a friend ever broken up with you?
0:40.0	Not that I know of, not that I've noticed.
0:44.0	But I think I'm usually the breakur-upper.
0:47.0	What about you?
0:48.0	Sounds like a cognitive bias,
0:50.0	like to only remember the times that you did the breaking up.
0:52.0	Well, so you wouldn't necessarily know, right?
0:54.0	Because if someone goes to you,
0:56.0	they would just disappear from my life.
0:58.0	And if they've done it well, it's just sort of slowly,
1:01.0	and you don't even notice.
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