Belinda Lane is an American woman who became famous for tracking down the killers of her daughter Crystal Theobald through fake accounts on the now defunct social media platform MySpace.
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Wiki/Biography and Family
Belinda Lane was born in America. There is not much information about his parents. He has a sister. There is no information about her husband or relationship. They have a son named Justin Theobald. They also had a daughter named Crystal Theobold, who died in gang violence in 2006.
crystal theobald
Physical Appearance
Eye colour: Green
Hair Colour: Brown
Crystal’s murder
On February 24, 2006, Crystal was traveling in her boyfriend’s car with Juan Patelán (Crystal’s boyfriend) and Justin (Crystal’s brother). Belinda was also travelling, but in a different car. When their cars passed a gang in two SUVs in the Riverside area of California, the gang began shooting at the car in which Crystal was sitting. Belinda, who was present at the scene, saw her daughter gunned down; Crystal was shot in the head, Juan was shot in his midsection, and Justin passed away unharmed. No one in Crystal’s car was known to the gang. It is believed that the incident occurred because the gang mistook Crystal’s car for that of their rival. Juan survived after surgery, but Crystal died two days later at Riverside Community Hospital. In Crystal’s final moments, her mother vows to avenge her death. In a documentary, he can be seen remembering,
The last thing I got to say to him was I promised him I’d get them. They’re going to pay.”
a mother’s fight
After the funeral rituals are completed, Belinda plans to create fake accounts on MySpace to investigate Crystal’s murder, after someone told her that gangs were on MySpace. He recruited Crystal’s cousin Jamie, who later impersonated Angel (a name he chose for one of the fake accounts). Belinda and Jamie soon begin tracking down the potential killers one by one. Talking about it in a documentary, Jamie said,
I was obsessed with it. I knew how to make it look like this girl on MySpace was real. It felt as if I belonged. My typing was acting up. Pretending to be that, I think that’s ultimately what made it difficult. Loving someone who is dead is not a good feeling inside.”
Crystal Theobald’s cousin, Jamie
At the same time, Belinda also used to drive near the houses of suspicious people and take photographs of their vehicles. Belinda admits that she wanted to kill Crystal’s killers, even though she had insisted her family remain nonviolent. He said,
I told them, “Okay, everyone, no violence, but in my mind, I still knew I would kill them.”
It took him almost a decade to find Crystal’s killers. In 2006, she was able to connect with William Sotelo who was one of the suspects at the time. In 2006, William gave his voluntary interview to the police, but due to lack of evidence, William was not detained and he disappeared almost immediately.
William Sotelo during police investigation
In 2011, Julio Heredia, who fired the shot that took Crystal’s life, was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Ten other defendants pleaded guilty to a range of charges, including attempted murder and gun charges. Belinda continued to track him (William Sotelo) through social media, until she received information in 2014 that William was in Central Mexico. In 2016, William Sotelo, the last person involved in Crystal’s murder, was arrested in central Mexico and charged with gang and firearms charges as well as voluntary manslaughter; He accepted all the charges. On January 23, 2020, William Sotelo received a 22-year prison sentence for his role in Crystal’s murder.
William Sotelo
Facts/General Knowledge
- In her victim impact statement, which lasted more than a quarter of an hour, she branded her daughter’s killers as ‘cowards,’ ‘monsters,’ ‘punks,’ and ‘disgusting.’ In her speech, she told Sotelo that her prison inmates should take her life and began criticizing her family for helping hide a murderer.
- Belinda’s speech was read in front of a large portrait of her late daughter, which was placed by the Riverside County District Attorney’s victim services team as part of a tribute.
- In June 2006, Belinda almost momentarily gave up and left a message to William Sotelo. she wrote,
Why did you…kill me? If you claim you care about me so much, why did you kill me? You don’t even know who you killed.”
- In April 2021, Netflix released ‘Why Did You Kill Me?’ Released a documentary film titled. Based on the story of Crystal’s murder and Belinda’s journey to get justice for her daughter. The summary of the films is as follows,
The line between justice and revenge blurs when a devastated family uses social media to track down the people who murdered 24-year-old Crystal Theobald.
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