MySpace Killers
When Myspace, Murder and Mayhem Cross Paths
MySpace Killers

Marcos R. Lozano arrested for rape in the second degree

Lozano apparently meets and or communicates with his victims on Myspace and convinces them to meet him at the Red Wind Casino on the Nisqually Indian Reservation where he works as a bartender.<< MORE >>

Shawn D. Memarian admitted Wednesday to using the Internet to get even with his ex-girlfriend

The 29-year-old met his ex-girlfriend online, and in federal court Wednesday afternoon, he admitted he used the Web to threaten and harass her when the relationship went sour.<< MORE >>

Seth Cravens, who killed Emery Kauanui in 2007 was sentenced to 20 years to life

On Nov. 18, a jury found Cravens, 23, guilty of second-degree murder and other charges, including felony assault and making a criminal threat, stemming from other fights. << MORE >>

Justin Johnson arrested for 2006 stabbing death of Juan Carlos Ramos

Pieces of information were gathered as teens had conversations about the death on MySpace and Facebook.<< MORE >>

Sherwin Adrian Mora charged with murder for the killing of Armando Leon Hernandez

According to the prosecutors, a 17-year-old girl befriended Hernandez on MySpace.com and lured him to her Rancho Cucamonga home, where Hernandez was beaten to death by Mora and Ivan Pierce, 23, both alleged gang members. << MORE >>

Shawn Freemore and Ian Seagraves arrested in murder of Michael Goucher

Freemore admitted to police that he killed Goucher, telling them they met online last month and had sex in the victim's car. When they met on February 3, he said Goucher tried to have sex with him and when he refused and left the car, Goucher pursued him and Freemore stabbed him about 20 times. << MORE >>

Michael Collins and Teven Collins beat Robert Tracey

Pair told skier, 'We really have to kill you' Arrest warrants have been issued for 33-year-old Michael Collins and 16-year-old Teven Collins after police say they beat Robert Tracey with a wooden club, leaving him near death and stealing his car at a campground in the Gorge on February 9. << MORE >>

Martin Martinez charged with sex assault on a 13 year old

The victim told police that she met Martinez and after drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana allegedly supplied by the suspect, they had sex. Colorado law states that anyone 13 year old cannot consent to sex with someone more than four years older than them.<< MORE >>

MySpace gives clues to cops in Durham killing

Deamonte Tavaris Brooks, 18, is charged with murder in the Nov. 8 death of Nathan Elmore, 18, during a party at a townhouse on Glendale Avenue. Brooks is also charged with two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, in the shootings of Christopher Hunter, 16, and James Downey, 21.<< MORE >>

Portlyn Lauren Miller charged

When you commit a crime, it's a good idea not to document it if you want to get away scot-free. 21-year-old Portlyn Lauren Miller told her ex-boyfriend that he couldn't prove she vandalized his St. Paul apartment on three occasions. But then, police say, she posted photos of the vandalism, estimated to be $10,000 in damage, on her MySpace page. << MORE >>

Update: Brittany Navarra in murder of 18-year-old Krista Rae Pike

A Madera judge decided there was enough evidence to try 16-year-old Brittany Navarra for the murder of 18-year-old Krista Rae Pike.<< MORE >>

Lori Drew indicted in suicide of 13 year old Megan Meier

Lori Drew of suburban St. Louis allegedly helped create a false- identity MySpace account to contact Megan Meier, who thought she was chatting with a 16-year-old boy named Josh Evans. Josh didn't exist.<< MORE >>

One police officer has made it his mission

The officer specializes in Internet crimes, and his presentation focused on how to be aware of registered sex offenders -- of which there are 225 living in Cheyenne. He also spoke of how to safeguard children against the potential dangers of chat rooms and social Web sites like MySpace.com<< MORE >>

Rephael Brandon Swan charged with raping 13-year-old girl

Rephael Brandon Swan met a 13-year-old girl on MySpace, they exchanged photographs and she gave him her address and phone number. << MORE >>

Christopher “Christopher Jive” Leasher sexually assaulted a 15-year old girl

A Warminster musician who bought drugs for then sexually assaulted a 15-year old girl he met on MySpace.<< MORE >>

Tess Damm sentenced to 23 years

UPDATE: Tess Damm sentenced to 23 years in mother’s 2007 murder.<< MORE >>

Shawn D. Memarian indicted by a federal grand jury for cyberstalking

Shawn Memarian engaged in a course of conduct consisting of malicious postings to MySpace, Facebook, Craig’s List and other Internet social sites in which he caused the personal identity information of Melissa Sandfort – including her home address – to be publicly displayed.<< MORE >>

Cameron James Thomson Third arrest in bunker murders of Bodhisattva “Bodhi” Sherzer-Potter and Christopher Cody Thompson

Cameron James Thomson, 16, of Covina, allegedly served as the look-out while Bodhisattva “Bodhi” Sherzer-Potter, 16, of Helendale, and Christopher Cody Thompson, 18, of Apple Valley, were shot and killed inside an abandoned military bunker near Helendale on Jan. 5, said Deputy District Attorney Steven Sinfield.<< MORE >>

Shanika Graves Threats on MySpace

Shanika Graves allegedly used her and the victim's MySpace pages to post messages and photos to threaten the victim, according to a release from the sheriff's office. There were photos of Graves holding and pointing a pistol, which she referred to in threatening posts to the victim.<< MORE >>

Jeff Ipson accused of defrauding women he met on MySpace arrested

Police say Ipson would find women between the ages of 18 to 20 on MySpace.com, develop a relationship with them and eventually ask them out on a date, said West Jordan police officer Dan Harkness. One victim says she became engaged to Ipson, according to police.<< MORE >>

Jon Joseph Rutherford is wanted by police on charges of raping another underage girl.

The two kept in contact through the social networking Web site Myspace.com, according to court records, and later agreed to meet at Pearlridge Center.<< MORE >>

Teen Hughstan Schlicker Kills Father After Taking Away His MySpace

Hughstan Schlicker told detectives that he found a 12-gauge shotgun in the garage at his house and was contemplating committing suicide in front of his father. Instead the teen took aim at his father and pulled the trigger, killing 49-year-old Ted Schlicker.<< MORE >>

Bellevue Rape Victim Met Attackers on Myspace

Officer Greg Grannis tells 710 KIRO the teens then admitted to the crime on their Myspace pages, "According to the detectives the four were not only bragging about what they had done, but they were considering trying it again with a different victim."<< MORE >>

Update: Collin Lee McGlaughlin and David Brian Smith killers of Bodhisattva Sherzer-Potter and Christopher Cody Thompson

David Brian Smith ran track in high school, was set to enlist in the Marines, and -- most importantly, his attorney said -- had no idea a night at an abandoned High Desert military bunker would end in the execution-style killings of two teens. Attorney Bruce Bridgman said Wednesday that his 19-year-old client, who pleaded not guilty Tuesday to two counts each of murder, kidnapping and attempted robbery, "wasn't aware that anyone was going to be hurt." << MORE >>

Brittany Navarra and Dustin Gran Update in Krista-Rae Pike murder

The police investigation also focused on the pair's myspace pages. In one post, police say Brittany asked Dustin if he would help her hide a body. Dustin told Brittany that he would help her hide a body if she asked him to. << MORE >>

Walter Smith and Nicole Speirs met on MySpace

In the fall of 2004, Walter Smith and Nicole Speirs met on MySpace. On her page, Ms. Speirs — a Scorpio, Honda lover and Utah Career College graduate — said, “I have been described as a preppie, punk, ska8er, tomboy and car chick.” << MORE >>

Myspace Blog of Collin Lee McGlaughlin

Taken and unedited from the Myspace Blog of Collin Lee McGlaughlin, arrested in connection to the murder of Bohdi Sherzer-Potter and Cody Thompson: << MORE >>

Collin Lee McGlaughlin and David Brian Smith arrested on suspicion of killing Bodhisattva Sherzer-Potter and Christopher Cody Thompson

McGlaughlin kept a chilling MySpace.com blog with photos of himself brandishing a shotgun and pistol. He calls himself an "Equal Opertunity (sic) Merchant of Death." The suspect says he is a student at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, but a spokeswoman for the two-year school said there is no record of him ever being enrolled.<< MORE >>

MySpace parties result in violence and death

MySpace parties can do more damage than severing a young man's relationship with his parents: they can cost lives.<< MORE >>

Police say Dustin Gran and Brittany Navarra killed Krista-Rae Pike

Accused killer 19-year old Dustin Gran shows off his interest in guns on his MySpace page. A page that's filled with violent images, he sent this one to 16-year old Brittany Navarra about two weeks before police say the pair killed Krista-Rae Pike. << MORE >>

Langston Williams III to be tried for murder of brother Thaddaeus Williams

After the friend left, Thaddaeus kicked his brother off the computer so he could go on MySpace, in the process destroying some of Langston's work. According to testimony, Thaddaeus closed and blocked his bedroom door. Langston knocked it down, picked up a steak knife on the floor and confronted his brother.<< MORE >>

Did Justin Krueger set fire to a church and Catholic school in LaPorte?

Investigators took note of Krueger's MySpace Web page containing images of upside-down flags and burning churches with music from his favorite punk, death-metal band, court records disclosed.<< MORE >>

Misfits on a mission to delete us all

The young Finn who last month slaughtered eight people, having first boasted of his plans on YouTube, is the latest of a new breed of killer. Armed with a gun, a camera and a computer, they use dehumanising technology to turn bedroom cyber fantasies into bloody reality.<< MORE >>

John White guilty in the death of Daniel Cicciaro.

The confrontation came after his son, Aaron, was asked to leave a beer bash at a friend's house. A female guest had complained about a bogus MySpace posting claiming Aaron White wanted to rape her.<< MORE >>

MySpace drug busts lead to four arrests

Police used the popular website MySpace to set up two drug busts on Wednesday night, which led to a chase and seizure of almost three pounds of marijuana.<< MORE >>

MySpace Friendship Leads To Theft

Police said the man learned how to get into the house through the popular internet site MySpace.<< MORE >>

Teacher Oliver Thomas Bernsdorff Kills 4, Himself

Earlier in the day, Bernsdorff, 36, shot his ex-wife, 27-year-old Jennifer Davis, and her 53-year-old roommate, Andrea H. Pisanello, in their Largo apartment around 6:30 a.m. Friday, Largo police Lt. Mike Loux said.<< MORE >>

State Police To Use Internet In Crime Solving

"One of the things he thought about doing, between making the choice to shoot police officers and then to take his own life, was to go to MySpace.com and post a message to his friends," said Lieutenant Charles Cohen, of the Indiana State Police.<< MORE >>

Andrea Maxwell and Joseph Lee Coleman indicted on first-degree murder

Davidson County investigators have seized the journals of 17-year-old Andrea Maxwell as well as correspondence and other information from her MySpace profile.<< MORE >>

Nailah Franklin killer Reginald Potts Jr. denied bond

In the months after Franklin's body was found, Potts made bizarre public pleas on his MySpace page and to the media claiming his innocence. In an interview with the Tribune in November, he denied having anything to do with the slaying.<< MORE >>

MySpace Page Leads To Texas Fugitive Evelyn Mezzich

Accused Of Killing A Friend In A Drunk Driving Crash, She Fled To Peru. Datz didn't really intend to find Mezzich, but the young woman made it simple when she decided to flaunt her wonderful life on a MySpace page. Now efforts are underway to have her extradited back to Austin to stand trial for the death of Datz's daughter. << MORE >>

Four face charges in Sean Taylor's death

Although some media reports identified Rivera as the one who pulled the trigger, Smith said he had not yet spoken extensively with his client to determine whether that's true. Rivera's MySpace page is wallpapered with images of stacks of bills, and he's seen photographed lying in a bed with $100 bills strewn atop him. He lists "countin money" among his interests. << MORE >>

Lori Drew cyber-bully who drove Megan Meier to kill herself?

When the truth about "Josh" emerged six weeks later, her devastated parents suffered another blow. It turned out that an adult neighbour called Lori Drew who had fallen out with her daughter had pretended to be the 16-year-old Josh to gain the trust of Megan.<< MORE >>

Pekka-Eric Auvinen Cyberspace profile of Finland's teen gunman

Holed up in Jokela High School with eight victims lying dead nearby and the police closing in, Finland's teenage gunman prepared to leave behind the "miserable, arrogant and selfish human race".<< MORE >>

Megan Meier was contacted on MySpace by a boy named Josh Evans

When Megan Meier logged on to MySpace a little over a year ago, she was seeking a new start with new friends. She'd had some hard times: She considered herself overweight, had been bullied in school and had low self-esteem.<< MORE >>

Briton's murder probed in cyberspace

Knox no doubt regrets some YouTube footage showing her appearing drunk, as well as her MySpace page, signed "Foxy Knoxy" and since removed from the web, which displayed a picture of her laughing while handling a machinegun.<< MORE >>

Latasha Shaw was brutally slain by a mob made up mostly of women and teenage girls

In a recent telephone interview, Jasmine said the attackers were targeting the friend who accompanied her and her cousin that evening. That girl had been in a running dispute, played out through nasty messages posted on MySpace Internet pages, with one of the school-age attackers.<< MORE >>

Dwayne Stancill was arrested in the shooting death of Greg Ballard Jr.

A suspected gang member jailed in the slaying of a popular San Leandro High School football player in Oakland was identified with the help of his picture on the gang's MySpace page, authorities said Wednesday.<< MORE >>

Murder suspect identified in a group photograph posted on MySpace

At Malbrough & Lirette in Houma, La., a secretary browses MySpace and Facebook Web sites each day. She's not checking the online social networking sites for personal reasons, but is performing one of her job duties. "It's an everyday occasion," said Joan Malbrough, a partner at the three-attorney firm, which handles family law, personal injury and corporate law matters. "Every new client we do a MySpace and Facebook search on to see if they or their spouse have any useful information." << MORE >>

“Jena Six”

Robert Bailey (a “Jena Six”defendant) even posts a page on Myspace stuffing his mouth with hundred dollar bills he’s been sent, Barker said. Pictures showed Bailey with bills in his mouth, fanned in his hands and spread across his body. As of Friday, the pictures had been taken off Myspace.com, a social networking Web site. Catrina Wallace, a relative of Bailey’s, said Bailey’s attorney is aware of them.<< MORE >>