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Chapter 1: What was the background of the murder case?
I mean, that's all I could tell you is they have been harassing and living crap on me.
The only thing I had ever posted was, please leave me alone.
I'm Scott Weinberger, investigative journalist and former deputy sheriff.
I'm Anastasia Nicolazzi, former New York City homicide prosecutor and host of Investigation Discovery's True Conviction.
And this is Anatomy of Murder. Before we get started today, I just wanted to mention that today's case will be our 200th episode. So let me just say it would not be possible without our amazing AOM staff of producers, researchers, editors, and of course, congratulations to my great friend and partner on the show, Anasiga. This is a fantastic milestone together, and I'm enjoying the ride.
And I think the one thing that I'm thinking, Scott, when I hear you say that is that it is clear that that is 200 homicides too many. And we know that is unfortunately just a piece of what is out there. But we do thank all of you, our listeners, for caring about these cases as we talk about them weekly to you.
And of course, always, if you want to stay in touch with us on social, it's at AtasigaNegalazi and at Weinberger Media. We also host two other podcasts. true crime podcasts that you may want to tune into too. But now on to today's case.
Mountain City, Tennessee is a very small, quaint town of about 2,500 people situated at the foot of the Appalachian Mountains.
It's known for its natural beauty, its bluegrass music, and in the old days, more than just a few whiskey stills. After all, this was once prime bootlegger country.
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Chapter 2: How did an online feud escalate to violence?
It's hard to fathom how someone could be capable of this kind of violence or what motive could have driven them to it, but police and prosecutors in Johnson County would have to try.
From what detectives had learned from other people as well as from their own encounters with Potter, the man who went by Buddy was kind of a gentle giant, albeit one with a love of firearms who was rarely seen without a gun on his hip.
When investigators searched the Potter home, they found an astonishing number of firearms. And this is northeast Tennessee. There's a lot of guns in northeast Tennessee. But boy, were there a lot of guns in the Potter house. I want to say that there were close to 200 firearms found.
Marvin Potter's immense weapon collection included handguns, long-barreled rifles, assault weapons, and lots and lots of knives. A frightening but promising lead. Law enforcement hoped that somewhere in that house was the weapon that killed Billy and Billie Jean.
Out of all the firearms that were seized from the Potter house, not one of them matched the rifling and the markings that would have been created on the bullets that were found at the scene. So it wasn't any of the firearms that were found in the house.
But that's not to say that detectives came up empty-handed.
During the search of the Potter home, Barbara Potter was detained and she was made to sit on the couch in the living room. Well, at one point during the search, Barbara Potter grabs a stack of papers and starts ripping them up. And, of course, she's told, don't do that.
And they look at what she was ripping up, and it was printed photo off, I don't know if it was Facebook or might have even been MySpace at the time. But it was pictures of Billie Jean Hayworth and her friends with captions. Such thing as whores, bitches, and... They need to die.
They need to die. Were these idle threats or promises to keep?
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