EnigmasMuse Posted July 26, 2008 Posted July 26, 2008 I was watching a news story on TV. It was about this man who was married, they had a child together. Picture perfect family of course, one of these people, who no one would think would such things etc. He was having an affair, and was a member of a dating site. One that has been mentioned here before (I wont mention it though) its a pretty popular one, and come to find out this site he belonged to, is the one where he met the woman he was having an affair with. He ended up being arrested for the murder of his wife and child. It was just scary, for lots of reasons, but to think someone you might could be talking to, or know of, on a site (any kind of site for that matter) has killed their family or whoever, is just plain creepy! You just never know. Has anyone ever known or been in contact with someone on a site(I'm not saying to mention the site, thats not what I mean) but have you ever talked to or known someone on a site and later on found out or heard on the news that that person had committed a crime of some kind?
blair08 Posted July 26, 2008 Posted July 26, 2008 I would think it probably happens more often then we know. There's all kinds of people on all different kinds of sites. I don't know of anyone personally though that has been on a site I was on that was involved in a crime of some kind, but that doesn't mean it hasn't happened, and I just wasn't aware.
theobserver Posted July 27, 2008 Posted July 27, 2008 I know whom you're speaking of well most people should have an idea the story recently repopped but anyway back to the question I can't say I have ever specifically tried to find out too much about who I'm talking to unless I have plans to meet them. Fact is though so many leave clues about who they are online and in real life it's surprising what you find. We never really know who we're talking to online but then we never know who the people are we walk past everyday. Undoubtly I've walked past murderers, rapists, victims of crimes etc etc while we must be aware if we focus on it too much you could lose all respect for humanity. We like to believe "Bad" people do not use the internet but if that were the case we wouldn't have people talking to hitmen online and pedophiles targeting kids chat rooms. Sad world, but no sadder then the beginning of Homo Sapiens .
zxcirce Posted July 27, 2008 Posted July 27, 2008 Not online, but reminds me of a situation a few years ago. I worked at a doctors office and we had a couple as patients for a few years. One morning in the newspaper there was an article stating that the husband had been arrested on conspiracy to kill the wife. That was crazy. I don't know if there was an affair involved or anything, but it made us all stop and wonder about how well you really know someone.
annieo Posted July 27, 2008 Posted July 27, 2008 I was out with a friend at a club in my hometown, quite a few years ago. We were getting hit on pretty persistently by a couple of seemingly normal guys. The one who was trying to get me to talk to him showed me his driver's license, to prove his age or something, so I saw his full name. I was getting a bad vibe from this guy, he was really aggressive with no encouragement from me, so my friend and I got out of there. About a year later, I see this guy's name in the newspaper, the name I had seen on the driver's license - unusual name, small town, same age, same guy. He had been arrested for involvement in the death of a young (like 16, 17) year old girl, who had OD'd at his house. There was some question as to whether or not she was there of her own free will, took drugs of her own free will, whether or not she had been sexually assaulted. She had been dead for several hours before the police were called. Got a shiver when I read it. I knew there was something not right about him.
Mz. Pixie Posted July 28, 2008 Posted July 28, 2008 Not exactly a crime but she lied about her entire life- even creating a boyfriend that she later said died in a tragic accident. With a little snooping we found out the boyfriend never existed. Several of my mutual friends had met this girl over the net and met her in person numerous times. I had even hung out at her home a couple of weekends on a "girls weekend". We actually got to be pretty good friends IRL. Then she was caught in some lies, a few things she lied about she could have gotten sued over.
silktricks Posted July 28, 2008 Posted July 28, 2008 The other side of it is that a person's entire life can be destroyed by stories that are whispered about as if true. The worse the story they more people want to believe.
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