Jenelle Potter : The Facebook Murder

This Is Monsters

Jiles

True Crime

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Jenelle Potter was allegedly being cyberbullied and when the people she claimed to be the bullies turned up dead, everyone thought she killed them to stop the bullying, but it turned out that far more was going on under the surface.

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0:00.0	On January 31st, 2012, someone went looking for their friends, a young couple with a seven-month-old son who hadn't been seen for a while.
0:10.5	They opened the back door of the house and walked into the first floor, something that the couple's friends would regularly do.
0:17.2	Friends and family often just came in to visit without knocking and would find the couple in the living room or possibly upstairs, putting their son down for a nap.
0:27.0	This time, though, the house was eerily quiet. The living room was empty, so the friend climbed the stairs and made their way to one of the bedrooms.
0:36.5	Inside, on the floor were the bodies of the couple, both covered in blood. In the mother's arms was the tiny baby, still alive.
0:47.0	The police arrived in the small house soon became an active crime scene.
0:52.0	A double murder in a small town is bound to be picked up by the media.
0:57.0	Television would soon broadcast the story across the country and would eventually describe a murder that was carried out for revenge.
1:05.0	Revenge for the simple act of unfriending someone on the social media platform Facebook.
1:11.0	This detail made the story much more sensational, but it wasn't entirely accurate.
1:17.0	No, this murder was carried out due to something far more sinister. This is Monsters.
1:48.0	Janelle Potter was born in Pennsylvania on April 27, 1981.
1:54.0	She was the second daughter to Marvin, who went by Buddy and Barbara.
1:59.0	Two parents who had always dreamed of having daughters to look after and care for.
2:04.0	Janelle's older sister, Christy, loved her baby sister dearly, but they never had very similar lives or became overly close growing up.
2:13.0	Janelle was born with learning disabilities, as well as speech and hearing difficulties.
2:18.0	All barriers that caused her to live a difficult life that was very different from the other kids.
2:24.0	She was also diagnosed at a young age with Type 1 diabetes, a disorder that would cause her to look carefully over her health for the rest of her life.
2:33.0	Because of these conditions, her parents needed to keep a close eye on her while she was at the house or away, since she required a few types of medications.
2:42.0	As a kid, she couldn't manage these things on her own, which is why her parents stepped in help.
2:48.0	None of these were the reason Janelle was an obvious misfit growing up.
2:52.0	Janelle lived a difficult life, for sure, and she was different from the other kids.
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