What Happened To William Sotelo After Netflix's Why Did You Kill Me
What happened to William «Jokes» Sotelo after Netflix's true crime documentary Why Did You Kill Me? The documentary film tells the true story of the 2006 murder of Crystal Theobald, a 24-year-old from Riverside, California. William Sotelo was one of multiple suspects involved in Theobald’s tragic death after the car she and her family were driving in was mistaken for that of an enemy of the local 5150 gang.
Why Did You Kill Me? documents how Theobald’s mother Belinda Lane and cousin Jaime McIntyre used MySpace to catfish Sotelo and other 5150 members in search of Crystal's killer. Eventually, using the fake account, Lane was able to reveal personal facts about Sotelo that implicated him in the crime. Specifically, he drove his white Ford Expedition which carried the gang members responsible for the shooting, while Julio «Lil Huero» Heredia was identified as the shooter. Sotelo was, at one point, brought in for questioning, but was let go due to lack of evidence. Lane later confronted Sotelo through the social networking site about his actions. Sotelo then logged out of MySpace, went off-grid and was not heard or seen from again for over a decade.
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Ten years after the 2006 murder, Sotelo was tried and convicted on one count of voluntary manslaughter, for which he is currently serving a sentence of 22 years. Why Did You Kill Me? explains that following Lane's MySpace confrontation, Sotelo fled to Mexico. While there, he worked as a chili farmer and started a family. Sotelo remained the only suspect still at large for the killing of Crystal Theobald after all other 5150 persons involved in the case had been tried and convicted. In 2016, Lane received a tip about Sotelo's
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