Crystal Theobald's Mom, Belinda Lane, Has A Facebook Group Supporting Homicide Victims (2024)

• Belinda Lane and Jamie McIntyre are key figures in Netflix's Why Did You Kill Me?.
• Crystal Theobald's mom and cousin used MySpace to track down her killers.
• Now, both women are still active on social media, but keep their lives private.

Netflix users are gripped by the new true crime documentary, Why Did You Kill Me?. The doc, which immediately started trending on the streaming service after its April 14 release, follows the story of 24-year-old Crystal Theobald, who was tragically shot and killed by 5150 gang members in Riverside, Calif., in 2006. The film features interviews with Theobald's family members, most notably her mother, Belinda Lane, and cousin, Jamie McIntyre, who explain how they used social media to bring her killers to justice.

"I promised her that I was going to get them," Lane remembers telling her daughter after she was shot. "They’re gonna pay."

With the help of McIntyre, Lane created two fake MySpace accounts—one using photos of a random woman and, later, another using Theobald’s photos—to lure in members of 5150 (whom Theobald's brothers had heard were responsible for her death).

"I knew how to make it look like this girl on MySpace was real," McIntyre says in the documentary. "Making someone fall in love with someone who is dead is not a good feeling inside."

McIntyre helped learn information about the gang members, getting them to reveal personal information, like the kind of car they drove, to try to track down the murderers. "In the back of my own mind? I still knew I was going to kill them," Lane says at one point in the doc.

The story is devastating and a testament to how far people will go to avenge the death of a loved one. But where are Lane and McIntyre now? Here’s what you need to know.

Belinda Lane helped catch her daughter’s murderer.

Lane worked tirelessly for 10 years to track down her daughter’s killer, and eventually Julio "Lil Huero" Heredia was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in jail, as the documentary shows.

Lane was given credit for solving the crime. Riverside Police Lt. Christian Dinco told The Washington Post in 2016 that she was "very instrumental" to the case. Lane also gave an impact statement at the trial of William "Jokes" Sotelo, the driver of Heredia’s vehicle, in January 2020. In it, she called him a "coward" and "monster."

Lane is now active on Facebook.

Lane has a Facebook account, but it’s currently marked private. Her account features photos of her late daughter against a sky, along with flowers around her daughter’s grave. Belinda also has a Facebook Group called Unsolved Murders in Riverside, which was created to bring "awareness to Riverside Ca. for homicide victims seeking justice."

Lane shared in the group that her brother, Kendall Lane, is also an unsolved murder in the area.

McIntyre is now a mom.

Her Facebook account is also private, but McIntyre says on her page that she’s a "full-time momma" and "full-time student." She’s also on Instagram, but that account is marked private, too.

Overall, it seems that McIntyre and Lane prefer to live their lives out of the public eye.