WCAX TV: Oregon man indicted in Valentine's Day suicide plot

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KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. An Oregon man accused of trying to organize a mass suicide for Valentine's Day has been indicted.

Last week, investigators discovered the 26-year-old was using the Internet to try to persuade women to kill themselves either at his home or while logged on.

The 26-year-old is now facing one count of solicitation to commit murder and four counts of solicitation to commit manslaughter.

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1. From the Guardian:

Man accused of recruiting women for Valentine suicides

David Teather in New York
Tuesday February 15, 2005
The Guardian

An Oregon man arrested last week for trying to arrange a mass Valentine's Day suicide had been preying on vulnerable women online for five years, police said yesterday.
Gerald Krein, 26, was charged with solicitation to commit murder after a Canadian woman who joined a chat room called "suicide ideology" tipped off police.

The woman, who had been planning to kill herself as part of the pact, said she decided to go to police when she learned that another participant was planning to kill her two children before taking her own life.

Investigators have tracked down four of the women Mr Krein was in contact with and are searching for others.

Klamath County sheriff Tim Evinger said Mr Krein had been trying to lure women into committing suicide since at least 2000.


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http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1414759,00.html