Facebook Murders: Steve Stephens

Murder Dictionary

Brianna Miera

Comedy, Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2019

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

For our first Facebook Murder episode, we examine performance crime, & how it’s becoming more common for criminals to broadcast on social media. We discuss how Steve Stephens’ lost his home and girlfriend as a result of his gambling addiction, so he shot a stranger named Robert Godwin, then posted it online.

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STEVE STEPHENS LINKS:
http://time.com/4742204/steve-stephens-cleveland-shooting-facebook/
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/alleged-facebook-killer-what-we-know-so-far-121260/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/facebook-gunman-steve-stephens-ex-girlfriend-questions-site-s-role-n749191
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/facebook-killer-steve-stephens-left-girlfriend-upbeat-voicemail-article-1.3120281
https://www.thedailybeast.com/cleveland-facebook-killer-steve-stephens-tortured-pets-as-a-teen-neighbor-says
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11840953

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0:00.0	I'm Hello and welcome to Murder Dictionary Podcast. My name is Brianna and that is Courtney.
0:45.1	Hello. Hello. Hello. So we're going to talk about a new subject this week. We are on letter F for Facebook
0:55.8	Killers. But before we get started, we wanted to remind you that in our description and show
1:00.8	notes, you can find some links to the resources that we use this week to kind of look into cases.
1:07.3	So if you want to read a little bit more, definitely check those out. We also have links to our Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. So if you want to read a little bit more, definitely check those out. We also have links to our
1:12.4	Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. So if you want to stay updated on when we're putting out new
1:16.7	episodes or when we're putting out Patreon episodes, which we've had a couple in the last
1:22.3	couple weeks, then definitely follow us on Facebook. And we have a lot of good, you know, stuff to cheer you up
1:28.9	because we talk about some serious stuff, but it's mostly memes on our social media.
1:34.0	Have a little giggle. Yeah. If you need a little pick me up, we got you. The other thing that we
1:39.4	have in our show notes is the links to our Patreon and our threadless. So if you want to get some
1:46.7	merch items like mugs and shirts and stuff like that, definitely check out our threadless.
1:53.0	And on our Patreon, you can get access to bonus episodes and little items for merch, like
1:58.7	stickers and stuff. With all that said, we're moving on to a new letter in our alphabet, letter F for Facebook killers.
2:08.0	So I did a little poking around to look at this phenomena of people involving social media in their murders.
2:18.6	It is interesting because like I had said, I can't even post a Prince video without
2:23.9	somebody being like, you don't own this.
2:26.0	Yes, but then there's these people that are posting heinous violent crimes.
2:30.8	The things you can get away with posting and nobody, there's just nobody checking it out
2:34.7	unless it's Prince or David Bowie. Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah. So I don't know, it's just an interesting
2:40.7	thing that we wanted to dive into because it is so strange that like, why is this happening,
2:46.3	first of all? What is going on with the limitations and lack of limitations in other areas, you know,
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