Anyone You Want Me to Be: A True Story of Sex and Death on the Internet by
Douglas J & Singular SAnd, for a short period of time he did, providing them with accommodation and visiting them for erotic domination sessions. Unfortunately he had an ulterior motive and wanted their possessions and their cash. He murdered at least six of these women by suddenly battering a hammer into their heads, taking psycho-sexual satisfaction from their deaths.
Anyone You Want Me To Be is the third book which covers the John Robinson case, but it's a welcome addition to the literature, being both well written and impressively detailed. Stephen Singular (whose name is bizarrely mis-spelt as Steven on the front cover) has written several previous true crime books and it shows. John Douglas, his co-author also researched the case, though he sounds somewhat conceited when he writes that 'I suddenly had a new mission to tell the public that the same dangers it had needed to be aware of in the regular world, it now had to be aware of in the on-line realm.'
Most of us already know the dangers (as well as the amazing benefits) of
cyberspace, but this book also helps underline that we shouldn't rush into
a love affair with a casual work acquaintance or a financial deal with a
pushy neighbour. Numerous people who entered into such deals with
John Robinson got badly hurt. And Robinson's trail of destruction has
doubtless gone further, for as well as the six known deaths, five of his
other female acquaintances have disappeared.
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