John Mark Karr Under Investigation For Cyberstalking

Posted by : Mohadeseh Pourbehzadi | Friday, October 15, 2010 | Published in

The man who falsely confessed nearly four years ago to murdering JonBenet Ramsey is under investigation for cyberstalking a woman he met when he was a teacher and she was 9 years old, a Seattle TV station reports.

KING 5 News is reporting that Samantha Spiegel, 19, told Inside Edition that she first met John Mark Karr in San Francisco 10 years ago when he taught there as a substitute teacher.
They reconnected over video chat and e-mail. When she tried to break off their relationship, she claimed that Karr threatened to kill her, according to the TV station's Web site. San Francisco police told KING 5 News that they are investigating Karr.

Karr was arrested in August 2006 in Thailand after confessing to killing Ramsey, the 6-year-old beauty queen, in her Boulder home on Dec. 26, 1996. A DNA analysis 12 days later revealed Karr was lying about the murder. KING 5 News said Karr may be living in Seattle and may have changed his appearance to look like a woman. He even stayed at a shelter for battered women, the report states.

The station cites court documents showing that Karr changed his name to Alexis Valoran Reich in Washington's King County district court in 2008. Spiegel said Karr, against whom she has a restraining order, became a woman in to get closer to young girls, the TV station reported."That's part of the reason he wants to change his appearance," Spiegel said.

The station claimed that Karr is also accused of trying to form a cult of JonBenet look-alikes, and that he would call these young girls "The Immaculates."

http://www.dailycamera.com/ongoing-coverage/ci_15156316

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Cyber-Stalking Project Launched

Posted by : Mohadeseh Pourbehzadi | Thursday, October 14, 2010 | Published in

Over 1 million women and 900,000 men are stalked in the UK every year** but until now there’s been very little research available about cyber-stalking. Today sees the launch of a research project expected to reveal the true extent of the problem.  The Electronic Communication Harassment Observation (ECHO) was commissioned by the charity Network for Surviving Stalking and will be carried out in partnership with University of Bedfordshire.    
Project leader Dr Emma Short from the University psychology department expects the research findings to change public attitudes towards stalking,”There are stalkers for whom the internet and mobile phones are just convenient ‘tools of their trade’.  But we think there are also vast numbers of internet users who are engaged in harassing behaviours simply because they don’t know the rules of appropriate on-line communication. At the moment there are very few widely agreed guidelines or rules about how to behave on-line – we hope ECHO will define behaviours that are generally experienced as anti social or likely to cause distress in on-line communication.”
Chief Executive of Network for Surviving Stalking Alexis Bowater, herself a cyber-stalking victim, urges anyone with experience of on-line harassment or cyber-stalking to participate in the study. “If you’ve been bombarded by emails, or if someone’s made you feel alarmed, distressed or even frightened by what they’ve sent, written or posted about you on-line, please tell us about it by filling in an ECHO questionnaire. It’s anonymous. Network for Surviving Stalking is putting cyber-stalking on the agenda in government; industry and the criminal justice system – it’s time everyone started taking this crime seriously.”
Anyone who thinks they’ve experienced on-line harassment or cyber-stalking can take part in ECHO.  Participants are asked information about their on-line behaviour; what form the harassment has taken and how it has affected them.  The questionnaire is at www.nssadvice.org/survey




http://www.nss.org.uk/2010/09/cyber-stalking-project-launched/

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Cyberstalking in Social Networks

Posted by : Mohadeseh Pourbehzadi | Wednesday, October 13, 2010 | Published in


I think it can more clarify for us the hidden dimension of cyber stalking which is already exist in social networks same as Facebook

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Hong Kong court jails its first cyber-stalker

Posted by : Mohadeseh Pourbehzadi | Friday, October 8, 2010 | Published in

A 23 year-old man has been jailed for one year by a Hong Kong district court for sending obscene and threatening e-mails to two female students in what is said by South China Morning Post to be Hong Kong’s first cyber-stalking case.
Ko Kam-fai set up a free internet e-mail account with USA.net and used it to repeatedly e-mail the 22 and 24 year-old students over a nine month period. In his messages, he included obscene images and threats of rape. He downloaded a hacking program from the internet and used it to monitor the on-line activities of one of the two women.

According to today’s South China Morning Post, Ko Kam-fai pleaded guilty to eight counts of criminal damage and two counts of criminal intimidation. He told the court in mitigation that he intended the acts as a joke and deserved only community service. The judge rejected his plea, adding that a custodial sentence was necessary to deter others.



http://www.out-law.com/default.aspx?page=1402

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