In 2010 Amy Bishop opened fire on her colleagues at a staff meeting at Alabama University, 14 years after killing her brother with a shotgun. What made this middle-aged intelligent woman carry out mass murder?
Facebook, it seems, is the go to social media platform to upload gruesome videos of murder being carried out. This Easter Sunday saw 37-year-old Steve Stephens shoot dead 74-year-old Robert Godwin and post a video of his actions on Facebook.
Research from the University of Chicago has revealed that when juries are shown CCTV footage of a crime taking place in slow motion, they are three times more likely to convict of murder than if the footage was shown at real-time speed.
Facebook has a dark side. A side where it is used to share details of crimes, impersonate someone else for sinister intentions, stalk a victim, bully a victim and in some cases murder a victim.
On 20th June 2001 in Houston, Texas, Andrea Yates drowned her five children one after the other in the bathtub of her family home. Four sons, John (5), Luke (2), Paul (3) and Noah (7), and one daughter Mary, just 6 months old.