How a social media feud led to a couple's murder

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'20/20' explores the 2012 killings of Billy Payne and Billie Jean Hayworth with interviews with detectives and the mother-daughter defendants behind the slayings.

When police found Billy Payne and his fiancée Billie Jean Hayworth shot execution-style in a rural Tennessee home with their 7-month-old son Tyler alive in Hayworth's arms in 2012, it sparked an investigation that would lead them to discover a complex murder concocted by a woman who was in the middle of a social media feud.

The show will also feature interrogation tapes and courtroom footage of the case and the latest updates. After being told he failed a polygraph test, Curd admitted that he and Janelle's dad, Marvin, went to Payne and Hayworth's home where he says Marvin killed them. An agent meticulously reconstructed more than 100 pages of what appeared to be thousands of emails sent to the Potter family.

On the Potters' computer, police analysis found that emails sent from CIA agent Chris all came from the same IP address at the home where the Potters lived. Prosecutors contended Jenelle was pretending to be Chris and used the false identity to fool her parents and to goad Marvin Potter into the killing. They also say the threats of rape and murder against Jenelle were false and fabricated by her.

In an interview with "20/20" after the conviction, Jenelle and Barbara denied that they were involved in the murders of Payne and Hayworth.

 

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