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Carly Ryan lived in Stirling, South Australia with her mother, Sonya Ryan. Approximately 18 months before her death, while using MySpace (and Vampirefreaks.com), she befriended "Brandon Kane", [5] a user who claimed to be a Texas-born teen living in Melbourne who was a musician and had similar taste in music as Ryan.
The news of Svidersky's murder spread worldwide within days through internet sites, creating a phenomenon of collective grief from users, the great majority of whom were complete strangers to her. In Britain, The Guardian newspaper compared the widespread expression of grief by strangers to that seen after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.
Garry Francis Newman, a 50-year-old man, was convicted of the murder of 15-year-old Carly Ryan in 2007. He posed as "Brandon", a 20-year-old musician, and began an online relationship through online platforms MySpace and VampireFreaks.com.
In 2011, Specific Media and Justin Timberlake bought Myspace from News Corp for $35 million. They got to work on rebranding the site and narrowed in on the music users, rather than trying to ...
BPD Detective Brad Thorne warns of a growing trend of “sextortion” scams targeting teen boys and details strategies parents can use to keep kids safe. | Opinion
Georgia prosecutors placed Jose Ibarra, the suspect accused of murdering Augusta University nursing student Laken Riley, at the scene of the crime on the morning of Feb. 22.
Joseph Edward Duncan III (February 25, 1963 – March 28, 2021) [1] was an American convicted serial killer and child molester who was on death row in federal prison following the 2005 kidnappings and murders of members of the Groene family of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
Megan Taylor Meier (November 6, 1992 – October 17, 2006) was an American teenager who died by suicide by hanging herself three weeks before her 14th birthday. A year later, Meier's parents prompted an investigation into the matter and her suicide was attributed to cyberbullying through the social networking website MySpace.