November 23rd, 2007
Thanks to tipster Angie we have what appears to the MySpace of Joran van der Sloot. If the name sounds familiar to you it should because he’s the kid from Aruba who has been re-arrested in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.
From his about me section:
First of all, if this about the Holloway case I will […]
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November 23rd, 2007
Boy questioned over YouTube assault video:
Australian authorities in Geelong are concerned about a video of a beating that took place at a skate park that appeared on YouTube.
The footage, caught on a mobile phone camera, shows a boy being repeatedly kicked and punched by four other boys aged approximately 10 to 14, police said.
A 13-year-old […]
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November 23rd, 2007
Parents concoct ‘joke’ that leads to shame, anguish, death for teen:
Leonard Pitts Jr. is one of the few newspaper columnists I respect. Hell, he might be the only one. In his latest column he gives his take on the death of Megan Meier and his wishes for the Drews. In my opinion it’s the best […]
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November 23rd, 2007
Meredith suspect arrested after Facebook trace:
One of the suspects in the murder of British student Meredith Kercher was nabbed when he logged into his Facebook.
Rudy Guede, a 20-year-old student with joint Italian and Ivory Coast nationality, was stopped by German police after he tried to board a train between Mainz, in the south of […]
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November 23rd, 2007
Suburban man found guilty in MySpace sex case:
I originally posted about Huston Kline here and here. He’s a male from suburban Chicago who was arrested for exchanging explicit photos with a 13-year-old girl over MySpace.
This past week he pleaded guilty to a charge of persuading a minor to engage in sexual activity.
He’ll be sentenced in […]
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November 20th, 2007
Hacked MySpace page used to deliver school threat:
17-year-old Cozy Lynn Schick of Olivia, Minnesota was charged with making terroristic threats and facilitating access to a computer security system last week after hacking in to another girl’s MySpace. Then with the hacked MySpace she posted a threat against Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City High School in Grove City, Minnesota […]
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November 20th, 2007
MySpace hoax victim’s kin seek justice:
This is an article about the interview Megan Meier’s parents gave on the Today Show yesterday. Where they say that the ‘adults’ who caused their daughter to kill herself have offered no apology. In fact they’ve done quite the reverse.
“They’ve absolutely offered no apologies,” Ron Meier told TODAY co-host Matt […]
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November 19th, 2007
Suspect Detained in YouTube Video Threat:
After the Jokela High School shooting there were other YouTube copycat threats. The first was also from Finland. The next one was from Australia. Now we have one from Norway.
The video posted to YouTube threatened a secondary school in Askoey, near the western coastal city of Bergen, and referred […]
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November 19th, 2007
From the people who brought you MySpace’s five dumbest criminals Tech.Bloge now has The Five most creepy MySpace criminals.
If you’re a regular reader of this site you should recognize a few names.
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November 18th, 2007
Steve Huff of The True Crime Weblog has posted about 17-year-old Andrea Maxwell of Lexington, NC who is accused of killing her mother Judith Maxwell.
He has all the MySpace linkage.
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November 18th, 2007
Man guilty of sex with teen met on MySpace loses bid for lenience in Lake County court:
Back in July I posted about Andre Johnson. He’s a 30-year-old man from Ohio that was on parole for the rape of a 14-year-old girl when he raped another 14-year-old girl. Johnson had met his most recent victim through […]
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November 18th, 2007
Man Charged With Rape Of Teen He Met On MySpace:
21-year-old Jerry Fluker of Greensboro, North Carolina has been charged with statutory rape and sexual exploitation for having sex with a 15-year-old girl he met on MySpace.
A Burlington police officer found Fluker and the 15-year-old while he was checking on a vehicle at Joe Davidson Park […]
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November 16th, 2007
Blog Readers Out Anonymous Adults that Newspaper Refused to Identify:
According to this article from Wired readers of some blogs, not this one, that read the story about Megan Meier have published the names of those responsible for her suicide.
The St. Charles Journal wrote in the story that it decided not to name the woman and […]
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November 16th, 2007
Stepdad, friend charged in girl’s death:
One of the more recent stories circulating in the crime world is the disappearance and subsequent murder of 9-year-old Rowan Ford. Her step-father and his friend are accused in her death.
CASSVILLE, Mo. - The stepfather of a 9-year-old girl found dead in a hillside cave and his friend were each […]
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November 16th, 2007
Over at CrimeNe.ws I posted about Michigan thrill killers Jean Pierre Orlewicz, 17, and Alexander James Letkemann, 18. They killed, decapitated, and burned an acquaintance of their’s, 26-year-old Daniel Sorenson.
Thanks to a commenter by the name of JS we have Letkemann’s MySpace. JS was quick to point out all the comments in support of […]
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