20 Tweets From People Confused & Disturbed By Netflix’s ‘Why Did You Kill Me?’
This year has seen a solid stream of enthralling true crime shows drop on Netflix, with The Night Stalker and Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel gripping viewers and well, scaring the shit out of them. The latest true crime doco that has people talking is curiously titled Why Did You Kill Me? and it’s got people divided.
The 90-minute doco delves into the 2006 murder of 24-year-old Crystal Theobald in Riverside, California. But this ain’t no regular investigative case, as Crystal’s mum, Belinda Lane, took it upon herself to try to track down the killer. Belinda created fake MySpace profiles to speak with gang members that she suspected were involved, and she even got Crystal’s cousin to pretend to be Crystal when messaging on MySpace. At one stage, Belinda even planned to lure the gang to a location and shoot them herself. Yup, this woman is not OK!
In the end, after over a decade of Belinda and the police chasing leads, William ‘Jokes’ Sotelo eventually pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in 2020 and was sentenced to 22 years in prison.
The true crime documentary is A LOT and some criticism on Twitter has been levelled at the film for telling a biased account of what happened, relayed largely from the perspective of Belinda, who many viewers didn’t trust as a reliable source. Along with Belinda saying loads of problematic things in her interviews, she also had a tendency to insert herself into conflict and often made things worse.
Why Did You Kill Me? is a frustrating watch and has left people on Twitter equally confused and disturbed.
Firstly, how does the cousin still look so young when she was meant to be a teen in 2006??
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Watching #Whydidyoukillme and I’m mad confused on how the documentary introduces the cousin as 23 year old but then she claims she was 14 about to be 15 in 2006??? Someone’s lying or I can’t math anymore.
— 𝙇𝙄𝙇 𝙂𝙇𝙊𝙊𝙈𝙔 (@issa_atlas) April 16, 2021
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Was this cousin like 2 when she was on MySpace? #whydidyoukillme pic.twitter.com/sFgq2OA30g
— Bobby Bandog (@BandogBobby) April 16, 2021
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I’m confused as to how the cousin looks 12 now but was doing the MySpace page back in 2006 #whydidyoukillme?
— Mickey (@MusicEffLove) April 16, 2021
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I’m trying to watch #whydidyoukillme on Netflix but the age of the cousin is bothering me. The math ain’t mathin pic.twitter.com/9tCVAesNtD
— CT 🌻 (@KeepingItClassC) April 20, 2021
What’s with them all catfishing on MySpace?
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I know it’s not the point but man oh man did #WhyDidYouKillMe remind me of learning basic coding to change font and backgrounds on MySpace.
— Elizabeth Di Filippo (@mselizabethr) April 14, 2021
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I just started Why Did You Kill Me? and I'm nostalgic for WindowsXP.
— All that Glitters is Prose (@GlitterProse) April 14, 2021
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Can we get a #Catfish episode to find the real "Supergirl Rebecca"? #whydidyoukillme #wdykm pic.twitter.com/Mx8A12EupK
— Jam Horne (@prettygoodjam) April 18, 2021
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Crystal's 14 year old cousin was out there getting better leads than the detectives. #WhyDidYouKillMe pic.twitter.com/qWLNBI4ArU
— 💉 Friendly Vaccinated Thot Pocket 💉 (@thotpocket8) April 16, 2021
There was so much that was off about Belinda, right?
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I was with the mom in #WhyDidYouKillMe until she happily started a gang war & calling ICE. pic.twitter.com/GKpMslvEky
— Brittany Jones (@BrittMaya613) April 17, 2021
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Belinda from #whydidyoukillme rubs me the wrong way and I'm 22 minutes in
— STREAM 'ON THE GROUND' BY ROSÉ🌷⚘| #BLM (@out42020) April 14, 2021
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Aunt Belinda: “You know, they’re boys”
Me: #whydidyoukillme pic.twitter.com/xyYN6Jm2aj— tori (@toriiiiiiix) April 17, 2021
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Am I the only one confused that the mom identified that poor boy as the “shooter”…but was wrong…and has the audacity to wonder why the court no longer trust her credibility? #WhyDidYouKillMe pic.twitter.com/HNeREHZp0k
— SunRayy (@SunRayy___) April 17, 2021
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Netflix out here glorifying 🗑 yt folks as heroes. The mom on “why did you kill me” was really out here getting random folks shot and blown up, intentionally using ICE as a weapon, putting folks who had nothing to do with her daughter in prison & the cops were like *shrug* WTF
— Mere Squared (@pudgyandjudgy) April 16, 2021
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Okay so in why did you kill me the mother worked to systematically pit families against each other, incite violence, and instigated violence like what is this
— Eva Rediker (@EvaRediker) April 15, 2021
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Not the mom being a meth dealer and addict and naming her daughter Crystal. #WhyDidYouKillMe pic.twitter.com/NDUOmBASH6
— 💉 Friendly Vaccinated Thot Pocket 💉 (@thotpocket8) April 16, 2021
Actually, tbh all the characters in this doco were a bit strange.
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20mins in #WhyDidYouKillMe and this whole family seem sus! Something is off about them.
— Frank Lucas (@heir2thykingdom) April 14, 2021
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Same energy #whydidyoukillme on #Netflix pic.twitter.com/e0w4uHYEaf
— Summer Sucks Ops (@garikapc) April 18, 2021
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Is this a real life ex-gang member from a murder documentary or Andy samberg 🧐#whydidyoukillme #netflix pic.twitter.com/39lqEMx9l9
— Karthik (@karthik_rus) April 15, 2021
Big mood.
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Watched #whydidyoukillme on netflix. Am I a bad person for not liking anyone in it?
— James Noakes (@jimnoakes) April 17, 2021
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Im sorry but why did you kill me was wild and not in a good way.
— Charleigh Collin (@ThatsSoChaz) April 16, 2021