The media scrambled to make sense of this strange, baffling double homicide—the angle that most outlets came up with was “unfriending on Facebook leads to murder!” (Including 20/20 , which devoted an episode to the case.) But as prosecutor Dennis Brooks explains in Too Pretty to Live: The Catfishing Murders of East Tennessee , the situation was a lot more complicated than that. Read more…

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The Bizarre Facebook Hoax That Escalated Into a Real-Life Double Murder