Infamous ‘Megan Had it Coming’ Blog’s Author Still Unknown
Authorities Continue Investigation
MySpace Crime Writer Give Us Him Thoughts 
[NOTE: DBKP has examined the ‘Megan Had it Coming’ Blog and it’s last post, dated December 3, “I’m Lori Drew”. We don’t know who is behind the blog–Lori Drew or Internet troll.
However, we’ve asked Trench Reynolds, who has covered […]

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Two Statements
One by Lori Drew’s Attorney, Jim Briscoe
One by Blogger. com, Host of the ‘Megan Had it Coming’ Blog 
More questions in the Megan Meier/MySpace Suicide/Lori Drew cyber bully Internet hoax story. They concern the authorship of a site we’ve been monitoring since its appearance over two weeks ago on November 18.
Two statements about the ‘Megan […]

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Authorities Continue Their Investigation into Blog
Blog Still Going Strong
Who is the Author?
It’s still chugging along, the vile little blog that could, “Megan Had It Coming.”
It’s been 48 hours since the news article reported that the St. Charles Prosecutor, Jack Banas, had begun an investigation into who was running the twisted little website. The […]

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch Looks at ‘Internet Fury’
Bloggers Fuel the Fury
A Closer Look
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has fingered a culprit in the Megan Meier story.
And the guilty parties are–surprise!–bloggers.
The traditional press, ever mindful of mouthing ethics that fall far short of what they actually practice, is again pointing a finger at their Internet brethren.
Joel […]

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 Local Authorities Open Investigation in Blog
Drew Claims It’s Not Her 
Drew’s Attorney Can’t be Reached for Comment
It’s been confirmed that the authorities are investigating the “Megan Had It Coming” Blog.
Local authorities have finally taken notice of the blog, which appeared on the Sunday when the Megan Meier story was reaching most of the nation.
The blogger […]

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Statements from Jim Briscoe, Lori Drew’s Lawyer
Briscoe Appeared on Today Show Tuesday 
Still Says She is Not Responsible for Megan Meier Suicide 
Video Report Link 
Highlights from Lori Drew’s lawyer, Jim Briscoe’s Interview earlier on Today:
* “She knew these girls were doing it and she didn’t stop it,” attorney Jim Briscoe told TODAY’s Matt Lauer during an exclusive […]

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 Prosecutor Lists Reasons for Declining to File Charges
Will it Make Any Difference in the Public Mind? 
Is This the “Other Side of the Story”?
Jack Banas, the St. Charles County prosecutor who announced that no charges would be filed over the Megan Meier Internet hoax, answered some questions yesterday about why no charges would be forthcoming.
But […]

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Part II in the Online War of Words
Bloggers Claims She’s Hoaxing Mother 
Is This Really Lori Drew? 
The conversation still rages between the author claiming to be Lori Drew, Internet hoaxer, and readers of the blog, “Megan Had it Coming”.
After posting twice as “Kristen”–the first on the weekend when most of the country was just learning […]

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Is “Kristen” Lori Drew?
Or Is It Another Hoax?
Words of the Original Hoaxer or Internet Troll? 
Part I 
Are we seeing a conversation between Lori Drew, Internet hoaxer, and hundreds of Internet surfers?
Or is this another hoax?
In either case, the reading is riveting. On one side is the author of the ‘Megan Had Coming’ Blog, which appeared on […]

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Hoaxer Claims Authorship of ‘Megan Had it Coming’ Blog
Is This One More Hoax? 
MySpace Suicide Takes Another Twist 
Let the speculation begin.
Parts have the ring of authenticity, others make one shake their head at the thinking process.
Neighbors, in numerous reports, have stated about the fact there has been no remorse from the family that hoaxed Megan Meier.  […]

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30 Quotes Taken From the Megan Meier’s story
Parents, Neighbors, Police, Press, Blogosphere Included 
25 quotes from the people involved in the Megan Meier MySpace Suicide story and the media.
Megan, the 13-year-old daughter of Ron and Tina Meier, was the victim of harassment by “Josh”, a boy she’d met at popular social site, MySpace. Upset at his […]

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A Candlelight Vigil for Megan Meier Tonight
Message from Tina Meier, Megan’s Mom 
The Choice of How She is Remembered
Tonight’s candlelight vigil held for Megan Meier in the town where she died, is to honor her memory after her story became known nationwide.
The vigil’s announcement was received by us and was held for a few hours […]

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Candlelight Vigil for Megan Meier Announced
Tomorrow Night is the Night
A Peaceful Remembrance
We received this message post to our website within the last few hours. It was signed “A Message from Tina Meier” and the heading was the same.
It is an announcement of a candlelight vigil tomorrow night at 6 pm to honor the […]

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Town Aldermen Declare Online Harassment a Crime
Future CyberBullies Face Up To 90 Days in Jail
Teen’s Suicide Prompts Action
The fallout over the Megan Meier’s MySpace incident continues:
DARDENNE PRAIRIE • City officials declared online harassment a crime Wednesday, fewer than two weeks after they learned of a 13-year-old girl who killed herself after receiving hurtful […]

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MySpace Suicide Story Sparked Many Reactions
Story Continues to Develop Along Those Lines
Story Reached Most of the U.S. Late Last Week
Many Conclusions
Megan Meier’s MySpace Suicide story sparked a host of reactions and then, reactions to those reactions.
It’s been ten days since the Megan Meier MySpace suicide story came over the horizon into the public’s perception. […]

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More Evidence of Internet’s Dark Side
Blogger Calls Dead Girl “Slut”
Anonymous Blogger Brags She “Covered Her Tracks Well”
A Sick Afterthought to a Sad Case
“You guys are totally wrong about Megan. I’m sick of all the news putting the blame on the lady. I knew Megan and what really went on you can read about it here: […]

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Megan Meier’s MySpace Suicide: Reaction Was Outrage
We first wrote about Megan last Monday. The reactions to the story were those of disgust, horror, anger, and outrage.
Outrage over the death of Megan Meiers, a girl targeted by vicious adults. Outrage at the perpetrators of the hoax. Outrage that no charges have been filed.
Lastly, outrage at the […]

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MySpace Suicide Story of Megan Meier May Prompt Discussion
Do Teens Know How Many Fake Characters Inhabit the Internet?
What Can be Done
The tragedy of the “MySpace Suicide” of Megan Meiers could prevent others like it from occurring in the future. As news of the tragic story spreads across the nation, perhaps an event calamitous for one […]

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Megan Meier’s Story Just Beginning to be Heard
The MySpace Suicide Story Sparks Reactions of Outrage

Angry Commenters Want Justice for Meier Family and Megan
Many Parts of the Country Still Aren’t Aware
The “MySpace Suicide” reaction to the Megan Meier story has been outrage. Outrage on a lot of levels.
Outrage at the vicious Internet attack on […]

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A Cruel Prank in Suburban St. Louis
Offenders Not Charged With Any Crime
Nightmare in Suburbia
MySpace Members Now One Less
A cruel and unbelievably vicious prank perpetrated upon a young girl has stripped away the Leave To Beaver veneer of a suburban St. Louis neighborhood. A fourteen year old girl is dead by her own hand, […]

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Which would you find more desirable in your community: a group that advocates to abide by U.S. law, or one that advocates to break U.S. law? Well, leave it to an American newspaper to present a story as if a member of a group that advocates for America is a less desirable person in the […]

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Bloggers at Adoption.com, the world’s largest and most comprehensive adoption-related web site, are joining forces from all sides of the adoption triad to address discrimination faced by a Missouri family in their efforts to adopt the child of a blood relation who chose them to be her son’s parents.
There are many occasions when points of […]

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Around 8:45 p.m. on Saturday night, a power outage occurred in St. Louis’ famed Gateway Arch, stranding the sightseers inside for about two hours. About 180 people were trapped inside the arch which is about 630 feet tall. Two trams containing about 40 people each and about 100 people were stranded at the top of […]

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Fans of Mark Twain‘s (aka Samuel Clemens) Huckleberry Finn can now visit the home of the boy whom this famous character was based on. The Huck Finn House, located in Hannibal, Missouri is now open to the public. The character was based on Tom Blankenship, a boy with an alcoholic father who lived in a […]

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A bookstore owner from Kansas City, Missouri is fed up with the declining book sales that he has experienced, blaming TV and the Internet as the forces behind this change. So, to make a statement, he has decided to burn his collection in public. He began on Sunday, piling up books from his estimated 20,000 […]

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Identical twins in Missouri are in court fighting over which one is the father of a 3-year-old baby girl. It seems they both had sex with the mother of the child during the same 24-hour period and they don’t know for certain which one fathered the little girl. DNA tells us that both Raymon and […]

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As has been my policy, I’m going to refrain from too much political commentary the day of a disaster, but I just wanted to do my part in getting the facts out:

THREE people have been shot dead including the assailant in a shooting spree at a Kansas City shopping mall - and a fourth death […]

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Temperatures may have been cold in St. Louis, Mo. today, but that didn’t stop 92 couples who married under the St. Louis Arch on Valentine’s Day.
According to the Associated Press, the brides wore wedding dresses and veils, and one even wore open-toed shoes. April Sermons, 25, of Shattuc, Ill., wanted to show off her french pedicure.
“They […]

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It’s just the news is so damn depressing
Who wants to write about the crap in today’s headlines? I just sat down and ran thru the headlines — again — and it’s just one awful thing after another. Sure there’s some “good” news here and there, like Ben Ownby and Shawn Hornbeck being returned […]

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The elation over the rescue of Shawn Hornbeck is gradually turning to ugly accusations and suspicion. These accusations against the now-15-year old have not been expressed but they are implicit in the headlines: The Arizona Daily Star headline asks “Why didn’t abducted boy run?”; many papers are more subtle with headlines such as USA Today’s […]

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