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10 Awful Deaths Caused By Social Media
10.
Cassandra Porter, committed suicide after another student set up a Facebook page under
a false name encouraging her to kill herself.
Prior to her suicide by hanging, Cassandra attempted to commit suicide by overdosing
on pills as a result of the online harassment.
Thinking she had recovered and the bullying had ceased, her father went out of town on
business.
When he returned, he found her hanging.
9.
Terri-Marie Palmer stabbed her boyfriend after posting a Facebook status saying that her
bf was "p'ing me off sitting on Facebook, completely blanking me when I'm talking to
him."
In retaliation for her boyfriend's inattentive attitude while he checked messages on his
phone, Palmer promptly stabbed him through the heart with a bread knife, killing him.
The hairdresser was found guilty of Damon Season's murder and given a life sentence
in prison.
8.
In 2014, Courtney Ann Sanford crashed her car into a highway median moments after updating
her Facebook status with “The happy song makes me HAPPY.”
One of the drivers involved in the collision saw Sanford's car cross the median but was
unable to maneuver out of the way.
A life lost just to put up a meaningless status that we would guess nobody cared about reading
anyway.
7.
When a teenage gang in London decided to kill rival 15 year-old Sofyen Belamouadden, they
planned the attack online.
Further taking the ‘public sharing’ theme to absurd levels, the gang decided to hack
Sofyen to death while hundreds of people watched.
Armed with an assortment of weapons, from samurai swords and machetes to Swiss Army
knives and screwdrivers, the teens chased Sofyen across busy Victoria Tube Station before
stabbing, cutting, kicking, and punching him to death in front of hundreds of IRL onlookers.
Since the whole massacre took place in a public space it was captured on CCTV, and three of
the savage little lunatics were convicted of murder, five of manslaughter, and nine
on lesser chargers.
6.
When a normal 15-year-old is forbidden to use his favorite social networking site, they
might get a little stroppy or complain about needing it for digital ‘connection,’
But when the kid is not-normal it goes a different route.
Hughstan Schlicker’s parents banned him from using MySpace, so he killed his dad with
a 12-gauge shotgun.
To the the father's credit, the kid had been threatening to kill himself for weeks on MySpace.
While that is a good enough reason to take his Internet away, it may have actually been
a great warning sign that the kid had some serious issues
So one day, this seriously disturbed kid played hooky and came up with a plan: If his father
came home before 4:00 PM, he wouldn't kill himself - he'd kill his dad instead.
Obviously, his dad got home early, so the kid went into the kitchen and shot him in
the back of the head.
He called a friend who convinced him to turn himself in instead of killing himself.
5.
Richard McCroskey was just 20, and a self-styled ‘Horrorcore’ rapper from a small town
in Virginia.
Realizing that nobody actively follows bands on Facebook, McCroskey turned to Myspace.
On the site, he posted some of his profound musical stylings under the name ‘Syko Sam
and rapped about murder and killing people.
Syko Sam's victims were his own girlfriend, her best friend, and her parents.
Their bodies were found at home having been bludgeoned to death with a hammer and maul
while they slept.
4.
One day, Edward Richardson’s wife Sarah, decided to change her relationship status
from ‘married’ to ‘single.’
﻿ This would obviously annoy most married men
- but since this couple was actually already kind of separated, she probably didn’t see
it as a big deal.
He felt differently.
After their separation, Sarah decided to move back in with her parents, and he snuck in
to stab her to death.
After he committed this brutal crime, Edward ended up killing himself
3.
Scott Humphrey repeatedly punched his friend, Richard Rovetto, in a cab on the way back
from a guys' night out.
The reason was Rovetto had "poked" Humphrey's girlfriend on Facebook.
Rovetto claimed that he didn't know she was Humphrey's girlfriend.
The punches caused Rovetto to bleed profusely.
He died when Humphrey pushed him to the ground, causing him to hit his head on the pavement
2.
The craziest, most ridiculous social networking killer wasn’t actually a killer at all.
The only murders this woman committed took place in her own deranged imagination.
In a twisted, sadistic scheme taken to bizarre extremes, Natalia Burgess spent months creating
Facebook and Bebo profiles for fake attractive teenage girls.
Her main goal was Seducing dozens of teen schoolboys into online relationships.
Natalia would then ‘kill off’ the fake girls in tragic accidents or suicides, using
other made-up personas to break the news.
The girls' online boyfriends were traumatized and devastated.
Over 40 teen boys have been identified as victims of her Internet mind games.
1.
Adam Mann was a chef who murdered his former wife after she taunted him on Facebook about
child support payments.
He used a hammer to batter Lisa Beverley before slashing her neck with a knife.
He left her in a pool of blood, where she was found by the couple's five-year-old son,
in a scene of "unimaginable horror"
Beverley had 18 broken ribs and had no chance of survival after being hit repeatedly on
the face, head, neck and over her body.
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