Episode 62

Sword and Scale

Incongruity

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4 • 61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

A 30-year-old woman named Jenelle Potter has spent her entire life sheltered from the world. Not being allowed to get a job, drive a car, date, or even leave the house without the supervision of her mother Barbara, Jenelle turns to the Internet and social media as her only escape. However her lack of real-world social skills translate to disaster online. She starts making enemies just as fast as she makes friends and eventually the online feuds turn vicious. When her mother Barbara and her father Buddy, and ex-WW2 POW, get involved the online attacks turn deadly. Jenelle uses a fake identity to coerce her own father into killing innocent people, simply because of her jealousy and bitterness to the outside world. We're joined this week by Assistant District Attorney Dennis Brooks, author of the book Too Pretty To Live: The Catfishing Murders of East Tennessee.

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0:00.0	Sword and scale contains adult themes and violence.
0:03.0	It is not intended for all audiences.
0:05.0	Listen or discretion is advised.
0:07.0	The incident that really stuck was he came up to me and he said if I ever get the chance
0:16.0	I put a bullet in Bill's head. Hello and welcome to Sword and scale.
0:37.0	Season 3, episode 62, a show that reveals that the worst monsters are real. This week we have a story for you that's unlike anything you've ever heard before.
1:08.0	To call this story strange would be a gargantuan understatement.
1:13.5	We're joined by prosecutor Dennis Brooks and author of the book,
1:17.3	Too Pretty to Live, the catfishing murders of East Tennessee.
1:21.7	Dennis has seen just about everything over a 17-year career, but he's never
1:26.0	seen a case like this one. Get ready for high strangeness and a story that will leave you
1:31.9	scratching your head. This is Dennis.
1:53.0	This is Dennis.
1:55.0	My name is Dennis Brooks.
1:56.0	I'm an assistant district attorney in East Tennessee.
1:59.0	I grew up here and have been doing this job for over 17 years.
2:02.0	This story takes place in the small town of Mountain City, Tennessee.
2:07.0	Yeah, Mountain City is the county seat of Johnson County,
2:10.2	and that is at the very northeast tip of Tennessee.
2:13.4	It borders both Virginia and North Carolina.
2:16.0	It's a very rural county, very mountainous.
2:19.0	And basically everybody knows everyone else. There's about three grocery stores in town.
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