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"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 2.14.2005 ::
:: "St Valentine's day mass suicide pact fears" ::
by Jenny Booth,
Times Online
A 26-year-old man allegedly used an internet chatroom to try to entice up to 31 lonely single women to kill themselves on St Valentine's Day.
Gerald Krein was arrested last Wednesday at his mother's mobile home in the town of Klamath Falls, Oregon, after a woman in Canada reported him to police.
The woman told detectives that she had been intending to join in the pact herself, but changed her mind after another chatroom participant said she would do it, and talked about killing her two children before taking her own life.
So far investigators have tracked down four women - in Canada, Oregon, Missouri and Virginia - who were in touch with Gerald Krein, and discussed taking their own lives.
But detectives fear that there may be other women who are unaware that Mr Krein has been arrested, who may be intending to go ahead and kill themselves. Mr Krein has said that he was in touch with 31 women.
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