On an all-new 20/20, they investigate two murders that allegedly led to the CIA. This episode will feature interviews with the mother and daughter accused in the murder plot.
What’s Happening:
- When 36-year-old Bill Payne and 23-year-old Billie Jean Hayworth were found in their Tennessee home shot dead with their 7-month-old son, unharmed in his dead mother’s arms, investigators said the murder looked like it could be a professional hit.
- Authorities soon learned the young couple had become embroiled in a bitter online feud and uncover a deadly catfishing scheme.
- In a new 20/20, ABC News chief national correspondent Matt Gutman investigates an incriminating trail, including hundreds of social media posts, texts and emails, untangling a web of lies and unmasking an unlikely mastermind behind the murder plot.
- The two-hour program features new interviews with Joe Woodard, the assistant chief of Mountain City Police, and former prosecutor Matthew Roark.
- Additional interviews include Barbara and Jenelle Potter; the mother-daughter duo accused in the murder plot; TBI Special Agent Scott Lott; Payne’s sister, Tracy Greenwell; Hayworth’s sisters Beverly Morrell and Janie Hayworth; and Lindsey Thomas, a friend of the murdered couple.
- 20/20 airs Friday, April 5th (9:01-11:00 p.m. EDT), on ABC, streaming the next day on Hulu.
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