Bamboozled: Californian Bobbie Beale was left scratching her head after she started being abused online by EastEnders fans A Californian teenager called Bobbie Beale who had never heard of EastEnders was swamped with abuse on Twitter last night from people demanding to know if she was a killer. More than a million tweets were sent during the BBC soap's live episodes, which revealed that 11-year-old Bobby Beale killed sister Lucy by hitting her over the head with a jewellery box. But some of the messages were aimed at the American Bobbie, who thought she was being accused of murdering her dog Lucy.
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American girl thought trolls were accusing her of killing her pet dog Lucy
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'Why are people I don't know tweeting me about killing someone?'
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Tweets from the UK continued and Bobbie Beale asked: 'Who are you?'
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She said: 'At first I was really confused because I thought it was a real-life thing and I thought Bobby Beale killed someone and I was like 'It's not me'
Exchanges: The tweets began arriving at around 9.30pm uk time when it emerged that @placeholder was the killer