Belinda Lane spent 14 years bringing to justice the people responsible for the death of her daughter, Crystal Theobald. The story is chronicled in Netflix’s true-crime documentary Why Did You Kill Me.
Theobald, a 24-year-old mother of two living in Riverside, California, was murdered by members of a local gang called 5150 on Feb. 24, 2006.
“I told her, baby girl, I promise you if it takes my last breath, I will get them. I promise you, you will have justice,” Lane told ABC6 in 2016.
As the documentary explains, Lane was instrumental in helping law enforcement catch Crystal’s killers. And it all started with MySpace.
Lane was unsatisfied with the progress the police were making in finding Crystal’s killers early on in the investigation, she says in the doc. And so she and Crystal’s little cousin, Jamie, set up a MySpace profile in the hopes of catfishing Crystal’s killers and extracting useful information from them. Their plan worked. Using a picture of Crystal herself and calling her “Angel,” Belinda and Jamie were able to befriend William “Jokes” Sotelo — the teenage gang member who was driving the car on the night of Crystal’s murder — online.
Also Read: Who Is Crystal Theobald’s Killer in Netflix’s Why Did You Kill Me?
Through what she learned about Sotelo on MySpace, Lane was able to confirm to law enforcement that Sotelo was the owner of the white Ford Expedition that fled the scene that night. As shown in the doc, Sotelo was brought in for questioning and helped police identify the shooter, Julio “Lil Huero” Heredia. But police weren’t able to detain Sotelo at the time, so they let him go. According to the doc, he spent the next decade on the run in Mexico, where he worked as a chili farmer.
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