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Internet homicide, also called internet assassination, refers to killing in which victim and perpetrator met online, in some cases having known each other previously only through the Internet. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Also Internet killer is an appellation found in media reports for a person who broadcasts the crime of murder online or who murders a ...
Sharon Rina Lopatka (née Denburg; September 20, 1961 – October 16, 1996) was an Internet entrepreneur in Hampstead, Maryland, United States, who was killed in a case of apparent consensual homicide. Lopatka was tortured and strangled to death on October 16, 1996, by Robert "Bobby" Frederick Glass, a computer analyst from North Carolina.
Sharee Paulette Kitley Miller (born October 13, 1971) is an American woman convicted of plotting the murder of her husband, Bruce Miller, over the Internet with her online lover Jerry Cassaday, who later died by suicide.
Luigi Nicholas Mangione (/ l u ˈ iː dʒ i ˌ m æ n dʒ i ˈ oʊ n i / ⓘ loo-EE-jee MAN-jee-OH-nee; [1] [2] born May 6, 1998) is an American man who was identified as the suspect in the killing of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, which occurred on December 4, 2024.
After the trial, Sonya Ryan helped to set up The Carly Ryan Foundation (CRF) in 2010, a non-profit charity created to promote internet safety. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] In 2013, the foundation began lobbying for a legal change to improve the protection of minors online, [ 14 ] particularly given that 25% of teenage Australians are being contacted online by ...
Queenie Wong of CNET and Densley found that the murder demonstrated the problems with how social media responds to violent imagery. [10] [38] The Internet's connection in the murder has been noted by many. [29] The crime has been discussed as a case of domestic violence against women caused by toxic masculinity.
Armin Meiwes (German:; born 1 December 1961) is a German former computer repair technician who received international attention for murdering and eating a voluntary victim in 2001, whom he had found via the Internet.
William Francis Melchert-Dinkel allegedly met his victims in Internet suicide chat rooms, where he posed as a depressed woman in her 20s using aliases such as "Li Dao", "Cami D" or "falcongirl". According to his affidavit , Melchert-Dinkel spoke to dozens of people over the course of four or five years, encouraging them to kill themselves ...