Myspace/Richard & Judy

weve experienced 2 gruesome murders in Lancaster in the past 2 years. Involved in each one , was a young girl and an older (by a few years ) young man. Theyd meet on Xanga or MySpace and then carried on an increasing intensity relationship.
In one case the girl let it be known that she was feeling confined by her "authoritarian" parents. (remember that the only thing the guy heard is from the girl and he, of course believes everything she wrote) Consequently, they begin meeting and carrying out a sexual relationship (apparently the introductory phases of relationships can be swept aside by normal computer communications). SO the guy goes over to the girls house with a demand to her parents that they "free her so she could be with him". The father kicked the boy out of the house because of his unreasonable emands. The boy had a series of guns in his car. He went out and got a few and went on a killing spree. He killed the father, mother, and brothers and young sister of te girl. Then he and she fled in an esily recognizable car. They were caught in a roadside rest in Indiana less than 24 hours later.

In the oher case , a similar event occured. It appears that intense computer relationships are being initiated by kids unable to cope with consequences of their actiions. Now, is Xanga or Myspace responsible? They are, if nothing else, an enabling mechanism that allows "speeding up" of relationships especially among immature individuals who havent fully gotten the differences between fantasy and reality. Usually after a tragedy occurs , the police gain access to the peps computer accounts to help them develop a "post action profile".

I think an entirely new area of forensic techniques will be developed to investigate violent crimes of passion that involve couples or groups who meet by computer chat rooms.

As far as Myspace, it and Xanga, appear to be very popular and , as such, they will be statistically significant in kindling some kinds of deviant behavior.

Good grief.

Im not implying that computer chat roms turn people into peado's or murderers, if people are gona be like that Im sure its in them pre chatting on computers.

It just amazed me that some sites seemed to be ok like this one but others are frowned upon.
Knowing R&J as the whole country does,I would have thought it would be a topic that they would discuss.

Of course there are many interacting factors, but, in the grand scheme of things, many of these antisocial acts have left big forensic tracks on computer chat rooms. kids and young adults being involved in multiple murders has seemed to expand (while the overall homicide rates are dropping in many places). In most cases , there is a long track of the perp spilling their guts out at some site like youve mentioned. In Lancaster County the schools have taken an "intervention" approach by urging kids who frequent the chat rooms to tell someone when they see conversation that turns to violence. Since many schools have adopted a zero tolerance when dealing with guns and explosives, the school officials are doing about the only things they can. Also, in PA, the State Police have officers who surf around the chat rooms "phishing" for possible crimes in process of becoming .

A friend and NYC cop described MySpace as a "pedophile picnic" - he said the place is saturated with perverts pretending to be teenagers in order to latch onto to some naive kid. The only good thing is their on-line conversations become excellent court evidence if they are caught.