Breaking: MySpace At Center of Death Controversy Again
First, the MySpace suicide case brought attention to the use of MySpace for rather nefarious purposes. I’ve blogged the issue extensively and a quick search will give you a perspective on the situation in which a grown adult allegedly caused the suicide of a young high schooler using MySpace. Consumer rights group praised the dismissal of criminal charges against the lady, and celebrated the outcome as a “victory” for the “hands off the Internet” movement they so lovingly embrace.
Now, for another breaking story coming this morning from my home state of Virginia. Richard Samuel Alden McCroskey III has two MySpace profiles. One is “Lildemondog” and the other “Syko Sam”. He brags about “defiling graves”. Claims to have seen the dead come to life. Claims to be “Sam”, a Web designer, a graphic designer, a musician, a photographer, a gamer, a promoter, a “juggalo”, but states on his pages he is not “a creeper, a stalker, a rapist, a serial killer, a zombie…”. He’s a song writer…lyrics include “tonight is not your ordinary night ’cause last night I had the murderous rage, now I’ve got to get rid of the bodies before the corpses start to get to rotting…I’m washed up, there’s still blood on my hands. Driving in my car thinking of a getaway plan.”
He is from California and had apparently developed a MySpace relationship with a teenager in Virginia. How they met and how MySpace fits into this relationship is developing. The profiles show an excited anticipation by the teen in having McCroskey come visit her last week.
Police visited the teen’s home and he answered the door and assured them all was fine on Thursday. They returned on Friday and McCroskey was gone. The teen, Emma Niederbrock, another teen, Emma’s father Mark (a Presbyterian minister), and Debra Kelley, a Longwood University professor, were found dead Friday evening at their home in Farmville, Virginia. McCroskey was arrested in my hometown of Richmond, Virginia yesterday trying to board a plane back to California.
The “hands off the Internet” mantra and the belief among the far left radical element that “all information yearns to be free” are both concepts that have seen their day. And their day has passed. We need accountability. We need responsibility. We need change.
Now.
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