Crimes, Killers, Cults and Beer: A True Crime Podcast · Dark Pass Productions

168 Loser Kills His Girlfriend Over Her Facebook Habits

·1 hr 27 min·5 clips

Haley comes home from a 12-hour shift, and Brian drags her by the hair across the bedroom floor.

1. Crimes, Killers, Cults and Beer: A True Crime Podcast covers Brian Lewis killing his girlfriend Haley Jones over her Facebook habits. 2. The host and a co-host discuss Brian Lewis as a former bandmate and “old friend,” which matters because the host first has to clear up that this Brian Lewis is not that person. 3. The episode asks how Brian Lewis’s jealousy, drinking, and control over Haley Jones escalated into violence after she tried to leave him. 4. Brian Lewis and Haley Jones meet at a fair in New Tredegar, Wales, in 1996 when he is 18 and she is 13. 5. The host says the pair become boyfriend and girlfriend immediately and stay together for 13 years. 6. Haley Jones drops out of school and becomes a mother at 16 years old. 7. By the time Haley is 22, she and Brian have four children together. 8. Brian Lewis works for the railways and later loses that job in 2007, about a year and a half before the murder. 9. Haley then takes a job as a care worker in a nursing home and works 12-hour shifts six days a week. 10. Brian stays home, drops the children at Haley’s parents’ house, and spends Haley’s money at bars. 11. The host says Brian begins verbally abusing Haley, calling her worthless and telling her nobody else would want her. 12. The episode says he also tries to turn the children against Haley and blames her for his problems. 13. Haley joins Facebook around 2007 to 2008 to stay in touch with friends and family and later uses it as a refuge. 14. Brian becomes jealous of her online activity and convinces himself she is talking to other men. 15. The host says Haley later changes her Facebook relationship status to single before she physically leaves the house. 16. Brian reacts as if he has been humiliated in public and then escalates into more violence, including slapping Haley in front of the children and bruising one child in February 2009. 17. The episode references the “homicide triad” and maps Brian onto coercive control, substance abuse, and violent behavior. 18. The tone is chatty, sarcastic, and heavily commented on by the hosts, with jokes about social media, drinking, and Brian’s ego. 19. Listeners who like true-crime case breakdowns with relationship abuse details. 20. Listeners who want polished, non-jokey crime storytelling.

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A Facebook-fueled murder story gets a profane, human, darkly funny true-crime treatment.

Facebook humiliation sits at the center of this murder story, where jealousy and wounded pride harden into violence. The hosts keep the coverage loose, profane, and lived-in, leaning on banter and gallows humor to make the episode feel human without drifting away from the harm…

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If a Facebook status change sounds tiny, this case will prove otherwise.

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