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The most interesting thing about that New York Times article is that the only reason the story got out into the public according to the Times article is because of the douche bag parents. They had told the parents of the dead girl to hide a ping pong table they had bought for their own children for christmas in their home and when the parents of the dead girl found out who was behind the boy's myspace account they destroyed the table in anger. The douche bag parents filed a complain and then the story hit the national media. Wow talk about shooting themselves in the foot. Good article.
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Actually I think this would have hit the national media no matter what - I think it took so long to go public because of this (from the article, which I hadn't heard before):
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On the advice of F.B.I. agents who did not want the Drews to learn of their investigation of the hoax, Ms. Meier said, her family said nothing publicly about the case for a year.
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I agree, though, they were stupid to file that complaint, in which they essentially confess to doing these things (I guess? I haven't actually seen the report myself). I wonder if that police report will ever come around to biting them in the ass.
...went looking and just found the police reports here:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive...072megan1.html
thanks for the post of the NYT article - hadn't seen that. had new info and was written pretty concisely. the original article was a bit hard to follow for someone just wanting to know the barebones of WTF happened.