Thursday, November 18th, two-thousand and four.
After returning home from a holiday in Anchorage,
where she had visited the Hot Topic department store,
Rachelle Waterman made this cryptic post in her online diary:
Just to let you know, my mother was murdered.
I won't have computer access until the weekend or so,
because the police took my computer to go through the hard drive.
I thank everyone for their thoughts and emails.
I hope to talk to you when I get my computer back.
It is later revealed that Rachelle had enlisted the services,
of two of her ex-boyfriends to lock her mother inside of a van,
and then burn it.
Approximately one year later, a sixteen-year-old girl known online as,
rockonlittleone, was taken into custody.
She had allegedly stabbed her mother to death.
What could have caused these seemingly unrelated murders?
The only thread connecting these incidents is the internet website known,
as LiveJournal.com.
We attempted to contact the website's creator, bradfitz,
but we were stymied by his press secretary.
The only thing that we know for sure, is that LiveJournal is a disease.
A disease that infects anyone who is exposed to it,
imparting them with the will to kill their mothers.
This pandemic, like AIDS, will continue to kill again and again and again,
until stopped.
After returning home from a holiday in Anchorage,
where she had visited the Hot Topic department store,
Rachelle Waterman made this cryptic post in her online diary:
Just to let you know, my mother was murdered.
I won't have computer access until the weekend or so,
because the police took my computer to go through the hard drive.
I thank everyone for their thoughts and emails.
I hope to talk to you when I get my computer back.
It is later revealed that Rachelle had enlisted the services,
of two of her ex-boyfriends to lock her mother inside of a van,
and then burn it.
Approximately one year later, a sixteen-year-old girl known online as,
rockonlittleone, was taken into custody.
She had allegedly stabbed her mother to death.
What could have caused these seemingly unrelated murders?
The only thread connecting these incidents is the internet website known,
as LiveJournal.com.
We attempted to contact the website's creator, bradfitz,
but we were stymied by his press secretary.
The only thing that we know for sure, is that LiveJournal is a disease.
A disease that infects anyone who is exposed to it,
imparting them with the will to kill their mothers.
This pandemic, like AIDS, will continue to kill again and again and again,
until stopped.