A lot is being said about Jane Waughfield, the 40-year-old Indianapolis woman who was murdered last week after outing her ex-lover on Facebook.
Last Tuesday, Waughfield live-streamed a video in which she she told everyone about a man she hooked up with two years ago. “Y’all gotta hear this story,” she said, “because this is a good story.”
Waughfield then proceeded to spend the next 17 minutes talking about her ex, who she recently learned was “f*cking n*ggers in the ass” and “hitting the fudge out the back.”
She recounted telling him and his cousin, who she claimed was his gay lover, to pay her $5,000 or she would publicly identify them. When they refused, she delivered on her threat and made the video. She also published her ex’s name, photo, and place of employment.
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Hours later, she was dead.
CBS4 reported that Waughfield was shot Tuesday morning near the intersection of West 30th Street and Lafayette Road in Indianapolis. According to police, she was struck by a bullet during a 90-100 MPH car chase. After colliding into another vehicle, she was rushed to a local hospital, where she soon expired.
Queerty’s original article about the story was met with a number of comments ranging from “Justice was served” to “No sympathy for this stupid sow.”
“Well, Miss Piggy will NEVER do that again,” one person remarked.
“As the law of the jungle goes, she got what she asked for,” another wrote.
On Facebook, they weren’t much better.
“She had it coming,” one person commented. “No loss.”
“Bye girl,” someone else said. “Shoulda minded yo damn business.”
And then there were the tweets.
Jane Waughfield was a lesson on minding your business. You never know how people will react when you attack them publicly and try to extort them.
It’s just mind blowing that she was 40 years old making a video like that. The mind of a 15 year old tryna bully someone— david (@BunkyFenAskren) February 20, 2020
Karma’s a bitch!
— Katherine M. Stroik (@luvyourbullydog) February 21, 2020
This is a rough lesson that I wouldn’t wish on anyone but may she be a lesson to sooo many women who think it’s ok day to day to screen shot and expose people listen we don’t have to do Gods work he told us what’s done in the dark will come to light 💡#janewaughfield
— Dameka Rochelle (@DamekaRochelle) February 19, 2020
Just to be clear, outing someone is never OK. Never ever ever.
But neither is murdering them.
What Waughfield did wasn’t just wrong, it was illegal. But that doesn’t mean she deserved to die.
In Indiana, extortion falls under the statutes for the offenses of “intimidation” and “harassment.” The penalty can be anywhere from six months to two and a half years in prison plus fines. Capital punishment is reserved for the most heinous of crimes, mainly murder. It is not imposed for outing someone on Facebook Live.
Unfortunately, there are no sentencing guidelines for homophobia. If there were, both parties in this situation would be guilty.
Homophobia poisons people’s minds and drives them to do horrible things. Waughfield was clearly motivated by it when she made the video. Her executioner (assuming it was the man she outed, as appears to be the case) was motivated by it when he let his fear of people learning about his same-sex attraction drive him to murder.
I honestly don’t know which is sadder.
Waughfield had two daughters. They are completely innocent in all this and will now grow up without a mother. Her executioner will likely spend the rest of his life in prison, an environment that will no doubt be incredibly hostile towards him because of his sexual orientation. Both are victims in their own right, and neither “deserved” what happened to them.
sonic_source
Nobody DESERVES to be murdered, but some people are BEGGING for it and their wishes come true. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
dinard38
That is the best way to put it. No one deserves to die (well…..mostly), but she was begging for some kind of retaliation…..and unfortunately for her, that retaliation came in the form of death. She knew the rules of the streets. She should have known better.
I consider myself a compassionate man who cares about others and their well being, but I just can’t feel sorry for this lady. All of the ignorance and hatred spewing out of her mouth. Then she tried to blackmail these dudes and when she didn’t get her way, she retaliated. So they most likely retaliated back. It remains to be seen if they were behind the shooting.
jonasalden
I ABSOLUTELY agree. Live that lifestyle, call upon it’s outcomes. Admittedly sad for her daughters, but…
Fredrick Bertz
I still don’t see any factual reporting saying that the man she targeted was the suspect or that this was even related to the outing. I’m sure that a woman who would do something like this has other enemies.
Mack
I was thinking the same thing. She doesn’t appear to be a nice person and chances are she’s pissed off other people too. This is the first I’ve heard of a car chase. I’m sure the police with all their cams knows who car was involved in this chase as well as a picture of the driver.
G-Man
I was thinking the same thing where is the proof that her ex murdered her?
frapachino
Is it ok to find joy in a man who is dying from cancer??? I do not like Rush but many people here were cheering his diagnoses and that is truly sick!
ShiningSex
I’M GLAD RUSH IS DYING. HE’S VILE. GOD GOT HIM TOGETHER.
Vince
I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure…Mark Twain.
Cam
Awwww, the right wing troll account trying to deflect the story so it can pretend a homophobic bigot is a victim.
Let me know if Rush regrets saying all drug addicts should be locked up at the same time he was forcing his maid to buy him illegal drugs.
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The Grim Reaper can’t get to that pernocious smcubag Rush Windbag’s door quick enough and send him to the dark corner of Hell where it will burn in agony for all eternity…
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
Limbaugh’s diagnosis was cheered because he is a fierce opponent of a national healthcare plan while forgetting that a man of his wealth and contract will never have to worry about the costs associated with hospice care and all. He will soon understand what sympathy and mercy are once he can no longer wipe his own butt. We cheer his demise in that way, knowing he will think about those who don’t have that luxury and how he fought to make sure they didn’t and was it really the right thing to do. He will realize that no matter how rich he is he ain’t taking one dime with him.
ShiningSex
NO SYMPATHY!!!
My2Cents
No she didn’t “deserve” to die (people die all the time and most of them don’t deserve it). And it’s an all around sucky situation. But let’s be honest here. She put herself into that situation. She even knew her life would be in danger if she did it. I feel bad for her kids but sorry can’t shed tears for such a mean spirited, horrible woman and the stupid choices she made.
sonic_source
That woman would have gotten it one way or another (no pun intended). She tried to blackmail that guy for $5,000 and that was a FELONY the stupid sow admitted to in a LIVE BROADCAST. If she’d gone to trial, all the prosecutor would have had to do was play the video and she’d have gotten at least six months in prison.
Jared MacBride
Seems like a pretty good use of a bullet to me.
Prax07
It’s all opinion. My opinion is she was trash, and she got taken out like trash. No tears shed over her fat ignorant dead ass. If only More trash got taken out like her it’d be a better world.
Prax07
And yes, I’m Joyous about that fat pig getting cancer, I hope his final days are Excruciating. Here’s to hoping Trump suffers a similar date.
Kieran
It’s incredibly stupid that Graham has already judged, convicted and sentenced to LIFE IN PRISON(!) the man outed in the story. Get a grip. We have something called due process in the United States, not to mention extenuating circumstances.
Donston
I’m seeing some amount of comments on social media about how she “deserved it”. They’re comments that are completely uncalled for, and some have racist or misogynistic undertones. But I’m seeing even more comments that are misandrist and/or male homophobia. I’m seeing plenty variations of “all gay men hate women, they were just looking for an excuse to kill her”. I’m also seeing some of “she had the right to our them, I’m tired of these DL n*ggas”. They don’t care that this was none of her business and that she tried to extort them. There’s a lot of gender tensions. I’m seeing plenty of women show general bitterness towards men who have same-sex attractions, passions, affections, love. This thing is making a lot of people look messy. And it shows how problematic male “queerdom” still is, especially among minorities. It also highlights the problematic nature of having women dominate male sexual and identity politics and sociology. Even some “progressive” women have said some foul shit. But “straight” dudes are mostly keeping their mouth shut on this one. Ultimately, guys really need to start speaking for themselves and verbalizing their struggles and living their lives truly and utterly free and honestly. Too many are still being so dictated by ego and sociology, even “out” guys. All or even most men do that, and this type of shit does not happen anymore. But we still don’t know exactly what went down.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
I swear some times I think you are writing a book and getting feedback for the characters in it. It sounds as though that sheltered suburban upbringing didn’t prepare you for people like her that some of us have had to work. You made a comment not too long ago about my personal feelings. I am going to share a true employment horror story to give you some clues as to why I see this as I do. I don’t know her, true, but for some reason or other I see her resume with no less than six or seven jobs per year since her twenties. Of the many companies in the industry listed on her resume I’d give her best paying unarmed security guard job $11.50 per hour. I had no other choice but to work with people like her when I lived in Washington, DC and trust me, they become very challenging on ones nerves from the time you are introduced. I had some fantastic jobs with great benefits but had to put up with women like her on two of them along with young black males who answered any and every thing when you had to communicate to them in rap lyrics that they just created. I didn’t mind the ones that WEREN’T thinking they were scaring you when they got close while waving their fingers and hands in the air. It was the ones that thought they were that bothered me. Those kids have never even had white school teachers let alone white kids in their classes. I honest to god didn’t want to believe it until I was pulled aside one day in Dupont Circle and the white coworker explained to me how DC was and how it operated. Stand there and look at them was all we could do because the white supervisors didn’t want to be called racists and nearly all of them were retiring within three-five years so why bother. It was also during the time when the murder rate in DC stayed over 400 (to them, the HIV disease was a white boy’s disease but I knew it was present and too late to control in their case). I remember one very lonely girl who had to be screwed by every black man she came in contact with or they faced the wrath of “is he a PUNK?” if they complained about her aggressive come ons. It got so bad I told two supervisors in a room that if they didn’t do something about that girl (get rid of her). I was transferred to god fearing white christian northern Virginia, the white folks promised land as far as employment went. Or to be more specific, the land where proper screening was done before employment. I used to think that was racist but now I understand the point of making sure a person fits. You can learn to do anything but is that anything environment right for you? People like this are OUT OF CONTROL and need some serious help. How would you like being in the lunch room and a fool like her is marching back and forth girling and honey-childing on and on about something/someone who sounds just as low on the total pole with two coworkers just as bad. And I mean in a tone where you actually find yourself not taking your eyes off of her or them. Did you take note that imbecile was FORTY YEARS OLD? Do you think she just got the way she is? Would YOU want to be incarcerated on a job for eight hours with some one who would no doubt be voted Miss Most Likely To Be Shot Outside or Inside A Club By The Equivalent Of Her Clone? You are out of your mind. Deep down you do not feel the sympathy you THINK you feel for these people. Being suburban born and bred has given you a guilt complex that you need some serious counseling on. Her type are what they are and you just saw the face (posted videos like this) of many past and future killings. Had that guy been you I know you’d change your tune in a heartbeat.
Donston
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Donston
It’s funny how you assume I’m white, old and grew up in the suburbs just because I speak with intelligence, insight and nuance. It reveals just how prejudice and hateful you really are. It’s also funny how you defended, borderline praised, Eminem for spending years profiting off of and promoting male homophobia. Yet, this woman’s death was merely Karmic justice. I see through your BS. You’re just another insecure “queer” who secretly hates yourself, can’t see outside of themselves and who thinks all their trauma is the world’s problem. And I hope my posts continue to trigger you. Now, let me get back to calling my suburban mom.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
You can find all of that to say about me but see none of the self destructive faults of Miss Most Likely To End Up Forty Years Old And Still Cruising The Clubs For Young’uns Because Older Men Beat Her Ass And Don’t Want Anything To Do With Her? Child, you got problems.
Donston
Where did I say I support what this lady did? I’m also not even vilifying the guys who supposedly killed her. My post was not focused on the “incident” or the parties involved. I talked about what the actual article is about, which is the social media reactions. If you want my opinion on the actual “incident” then go to the original article. But in general, go somewhere else with your trolly, ranty, hypocritical BS.
Crystix
Quick question – Are we supposed to pity homophobes when they attack a gay person and the gay person fights back?
Asking for a friend.
RobotEmilio
No. But that doesn’t mean that the response is a good thing, or it is deserving, either.
Donston
RobotEmilio, that’s the issue I’m having. You can resent what this woman did. And you don’t even have to feel bad for death. But many folks are looking for any excuse to be anti gay, male homophobic, misandrist and/or to feel some type of way towards any type of same-sex passions, affections, relationships. So, showing your ass in this nature is not a good look. It’s not helping anyone.
Cam
If somebody decides to walk along a freeway at night wearing all black, do they DESERVE to be hit and killed? No……is it a stupid thing to do? Yes. Is it surprising if they get hit and killed? No
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Graham, not sure who appointed you to be the comments police….
Our community is under unprecedented attacks due to the unrelenting actions of the Orange Puppet and it’s vile minions. Even though this site has been infected with nefarious abhorrent smcubag trolls,it is still a place for us to vent. I have been posting on this site since David created it in 2005.
So please don’t attempt to scold posters here….
That being said, I repeat that I love a story with a happy ending!!
RyanMBecker
I think about the larger picture and as such, I think society is better without people like her. What’s to say she won’t blackmail or extort someone else for some other reason? As such, I don’t really care that she has died. A part of me actually wish that she suffered (but lived) — perhaps in jail, had the victims gone the legal route. Regardless, she died quickly and painlessly, so there’s no sympathy from me.
As for the killer/s, has it been proven that the murder is connected to her gay ex? She seems like the type to make lots of enemies. But if it was the ex (or any other victim), I think many juries would sympathetic and give a weaker sentence — not life, as this article claims. My guess is that this video is not the only evidence against her.
harrisonca
Just to be clear, she was black mailing these men and proceeded to release life-altering information along with her confession to her criminality. While she did not deserve to be murdered she deserves a greater punishment than what the law allows. If it turns out the cousin and the boyfriend are the murderers I hope the law takes the situation into account.
Regarding her daughters I can’t imagine that they’re going to have a worse role model now than they would have had with her as a mother.
fur_hunter
Reba McEntire sings a song that goes. “Sssshhh……it happens.” Yep. And for this bitch who outed the guy, there is an appropriate expression. If you play with fire, you can get burned. Got it?
Josh447
In this case it would seem the phrase “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” metaphorically goes to the gay guys who murdered the woman furiously scorned. She was out to completely ruin their lives emotionally socially and financially. You could also say that she was out to mark them for murder. Did she get what she had coming to her? Technically for her ruining lives to that depth, maybe she deserved being knocked off. She needed to be stopped. She was also on the warpath for other black gay guys on the down low to also have them taken out. She in a sense is a murderer herself. If you’re listening up there, Karma’s a bitch grl. Best think twice B4 you ruin a life
Godabed
I am not going to say she deserved anything, I don’t know this woman in RL. What I can say is that outing people is dangerous for the person being outed. That can and has gotten people killed, not in some third world country but here in the US.
The reality is there are no safe places really, gay bashing is still a thing, there is even a gay defense for murdering lgbtqa ppl, or just the act of existing and being yourself can get you killed. So it’s clear this woman was not conscious of that when she tried to out these guys, that was not a smart thing to do.
I hope they catch the person responsible for shooting her.
okiloki
Some of the comments on here cheering her death were disgusting. She may not have been a great person but the commenters revealed a lot about themselves and their own lack of character by those comments. Thanks for at least addressing that Queerty.
LARRY
You are most welcome to voice your opinion…it is never quite appropriate to pass judgement. I have no skin in the games this woman was playing, but there are life and death consequences for outing someone. I sincerely hope that the man she outed is not responsible for her demise. I also have absolutely no sympathy for her in any shape or form. Her daughters may grow without a mother but it was made rather evident that at least for them a major road block for any meaningful development has just been removed. Poop happens…life goes on.
Joshua333
Again. Bye Felicia.
ShowMeGuy
When you decide to invite someone to “come at ya” ……. you don’t get to set the rules for HOW they will “come at ya”.
Jerry
Absolutely did
jjose712
We didn’t know who killed her. If she acted the same way she did with her ex with everybody she must had tons of enemies
Raphael
I stand by what I said. “Justice was served”. Sorry, Graham, you’re outnumbered here.
Tarutaru
No she didn’t deserve to be killed but it’s one of those things where she was playing with fire and this was one of the possible consequences. You can’t threaten someone else’s livelihood and expect yours to remain safe.
Heywood Jablowme
Okay, she didn’t deserve to be murdered.
She deserved to be struck by lightning.
Better?
Jerry
Now, this is hilarious!
Dymension
She certainly asked for it. You don’t get on a live video and say you fear for your life unless you know what you were getting into.
yah_sure_youbetcha
Can someone please help me understand why my comments are always deleted?
yah_sure_youbetcha
Great! Now if only my previous comments “awaiting moderation” could be approved as quickly.
Raphael
Comments “awaiting moderation” are never approved, they will not show up. Don’t edit your comments, if you need to change or add something, just reply your own comment.