The seemingly empathetic nurse struck up conversations over the Internet with people who were pondering suicide. She told them what methods worked best. She told some that it was all right to let go, that they would be better in heaven, and entered into suicide pacts with others.
But the police say the nurse, who sometimes called herself Cami and described herself as a young woman, was actually William F. Melchert-Dinkel, a 47-year-old husband and father from Faribault, Minn., who now stands charged with two counts of aiding suicide.
Mr. Melchert-Dinkel, whose lawyer declined an interview request on his behalf, told investigators that his interest in “death and suicide could be considered an obsession,” court documents say, and that he sought the “thrill of the chase.” While the charges stem from two deaths ”” one in Britain in 2005 and one in Canada in 2008 ”” Mr. Melchert-Dinkel, who was indeed a licensed practical nurse, told investigators that he had most likely encouraged dozens of people to kill themselves, court documents said. He said he could not be sure how many had succeeded.
The case, chilling and ghoulish, raises thorny issues in the Internet age, both legal and otherwise. For instance, many states have laws barring assisting suicide, but rarely have cases involved people not in the same room (much less the same country) or the sharing of only words (not guns or pills).
It was inspiring to learn of Cellia Blay trying to expand what the police are willing to call murder and to finally succeed. However, there are other cases that haven’t succeeded.
The most noted in Michael Jackson’s sister La Toya, being horrified about her brother being subjected to systematic stress, the perpetrators hoping he’d die so he was worth more dead than alive, keeping La Toyar away from him. And accidentally got Dr. Conrad Murray charged with murder even though he had a stake is seeing Michael live not die, and was subjected to distractions by those systematically wanting Michael dead. However we live in a court system that even giving a drunk drinks that are stronger than he asked for, or not reminding a heart patient to take his blood pressure medicine, while telling the other relatives you are watching him won’t lead a prosecutor to charge murder.
When I open my mouth I am referred casually to other incidents.
With myself, my landlord who I had called 9/11 about or rushed with him to the hospital 6 times before suddenly had his shades drawn, and the handyman that took my place after being in a car accident, urged me not to call the police when I yelled into his apartment until I first contact his new girlfriend who might have a key, and he refused to go with me to the payphone down the street. I stung my land phone by 100 phone extension line out the door (I didn’t want to let that creep into my apartment but since my key to my landlords appartment was missing from where I kept it he might have already been in my appartment).
The 9/11 tapes should show me hysterically on the payphone calling 9/11 to come quick then a caller on my land phone and I think the experts could tell it was a land phone saying it was a problem but not probably not an emergency, then in a later hysterical call from me to 9/11 being told by the dispatcher that another call came right before yours. So his call took precedence. I am tempted to claim that they stole his medicine but that would not have been in keeping with the rouge of a perfect murder.
Anyway, perfect murders occur all the time, not just with people urged to commit suicide. Unfortunately have been unable to find out how to contact La Toya directly.
I want to claim without evidence but a good hunch that if one checked the life span of sick people where the ones caring for then have something to gain with the patient having a long life to those where they have something to loose, the difference in life expectancy would be significant.
Rarely is someone involved as famous as La Toya or have perpetrators so confident that they moves are recording on 9/11 tape. It’s a shame (and I am afraid typical) that people like Dr. Conrad Murray who had much to gain for Michael to live but didn’t want to be replaced by someone more willing to give desperate Michael more of the medicine he wanted is charged with murder, who probably has good info on those who wanted Michael died if the police would associate wanting someone dead and chasing away people who don’t want the victim dead as a case of murder.
I confess I was slightly on the other side once when I was constantly pestered by a very aggressive drunk to again by him some booze, I had a dark thought that I felt guilty about of buying him a couple of gallons of the highest proof booze I could fine. To be fair to the police they feel they have enough work to do without, trying to prosecute someone hiding or stealing a sick person’s medicine.
http://www.phillyimc.org/en/michael-jackson-la-toya-his-sister-cried-had-been-surrounded-shady-characters-who-wanted-him-dead