November 27th, 2007
MySpace romance ends on Dr. Phil:
Everyone’s favorite globetrotting Myspace runaway teen Katherine Lester was on the Dr. Phill show once again. This time it was to break off the relationship she had with the Arab man known as Abdullah Psycho. To make matters more humiliating for Abdullah is that the break up was done via […]
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November 14th, 2007
MySpace teen on Dr. Phil show:
It seems that our favorite word traveling runaway MySpace teen is back in the news.
Katherine Lester will be on Dr. Phil today and tomorrow to discuss her trials and tribulations. I thought this might set a bad example to teens willing to run away for some MySpace guy but Dr. […]
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September 12th, 2007
Teen heads back to Middle East:
You all remember Katherine Lester don’t you? She was the 16-year-old girl from Michigan who ran away to be with her boyfriend that she met on MySpace. And by running away I mean flying to Israel because her boyfriend lives in West Bank. She was stopped in Jordan before she […]
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September 8th, 2006
Mich. teen recounts MySpace romance to magazine:
Our favorite runaway to the Middle East, Katherine Lester, is back in the headlines again for telling her story to Seventeen Magazine…
GILFORD � A Michigan teenager who flew to the Middle East to be with a man she met on MySpace.com has detailed her online romance and the fallout […]
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June 29th, 2006
Prosecutors to drop runaway petition against teen:
Another chapter in the ongoing drama of Katherine Lester…
SCARO, Mich. (AP) — Prosecutors on Thursday agreed to withdraw a runaway juvenile petition they filed earlier this month against Katherine Lester, the Michigan teenager who flew to the Middle East to be with a man she met on the MySpace.com […]
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June 29th, 2006
Teen’s Journey May Have Legal Consequences:
More incredulous words from the ever-increasing spectacle that is the Katherine Lester situation…
“Now that our relationship is out in the open, I feel like I don’t have to go there to talk to him or to be with him,” she continued. “I plan on him coming here and us being […]
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June 26th, 2006
I received a comment on my very first entry about Katherine Lester. I thought it made such a good point that I decided to share it with you. It’s from a commenter named Mary…
If you know Katherine, please give her this message: I have a god-daughter who began dating a guy who was just like […]
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June 23rd, 2006
Teen Plans to Marry Middle East Man She Met on Myspace.com:
Oh cut me a break…
GILFORD, Mich. � A teenager who flew to the Middle East to be with a man she met on MySpace.com said Friday she intends to marry him.
“I love him very much,” 17-year-old Katherine Lester said of Abdullah Jimzawi, 20, who […]
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June 22nd, 2006
New details come in Katherine Lester case:
MID MICHIGAN (WJRT) - (06/22/06)–There were new developments Thursday in the case of Katherine Lester. The Mid-Michigan teen flew halfway around the world two weeks ago to meet with a Palestinian man she met on MySpace.com.
Thursday her mother’s attorney asked a judge to rescind a decision made Monday in […]
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June 20th, 2006
Michigan teenager involved in Web romance charged with being a runaway:
She’s not being criminally charged but this article clarifies some things regarding Katherine Lester…
DETROIT — Authorities have filed a runaway juvenile petition against a Michigan teenager who flew to the Middle East to be with a man she met on the MySpace.com social networking Internet […]
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June 19th, 2006
Tuscola County teen’s family trying to keep her home:
Remember when I posted the article that said Katherine Letser’s parents could use the courts to prevent her from running away again? It seems that’s what they’re doing…
TUSCOLA COUNTY (WJRT) - (06/19/06)–The family of a Tuscola County teen is making an attempt to keep her home. Katherine […]
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June 16th, 2006
Just some shout outs.
BelchSpeak has his take on the Katherine Lester situation.
Tech Crunch brings us the story of MySpace shuting down SingleStat.us, which seemed kind of stalkerish to me anyway.
Steve Huff has an article at Crime Library about missing mother Deidre Harm and how police are using her MySpace to help find her.
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June 15th, 2006
Parents may need court to rein in MySpace teen:
I found this to be an interesting article from the Detroit Free Press about what recouse Katherine Lester’s parents could have in keeping her from running away again…
Technically, Katherine Lester’s parents can prohibit her from reuniting with a Middle Eastern man she met on an Internet site. […]
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June 14th, 2006
West Bank family upset by Michigan teen’s no-show:
The creepy keeps getting creepier…
NABLUS, West Bank (AP) � Relatives of a West Bank man whose 16-year-old American girlfriend flew to the Mideast to marry him after they met on the Internet are distraught that she has returned home, and say they still hope to bring the couple […]
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