Killers on the Web by
Berry-Dee C & Morris S
hbk out February 06
Published by Blake Pub
at £17.99
For most of us the internet is a brilliant resource, offering information on
an endless variety of subjects. But others use it as a dating agency,
occasionally with fatal results.
Several lonely women contacted supposedly-wealthy businessman John
Robinson through a chatroom and subsequently met up with him. Their
decomposing bludgeoned bodies were later found stuffed inside barrels
on Robinson's property. He continued to cash their social security and
disability cheques for many months to pay for the trailer he lived in with
his wife...
Dr Robert Johnson is believed to have met an equally tragic end after
travelling to Russia with a large cash sum to meet his internet bride for
the first time. He'd bought a return ticket as he planned to go back to his
five children, of whom he had custody. But the trusting doctor arrived in
Siberia and was never seen again.
This is an interesting and detailed read, though the authors use of Ted
Bundy's final words to anti-pornography campaigner Dr James Dobson is
somewhat disingenuous. Dr Dobson visited Bundy the night before his
execution and the serial killer, desperate for a reprieve, said `I was
exposed to pornography for years. It led me to my violent ways.' In
reality, he was raised by a violent grandfather - and his religious mother
was originally so ashamed of his illegitimacy that she put him in an
orphanage. It was childhood suffering, not erotica, which informed his
psychopathic rage.
Killers On The Web delineates that many cyber daters are not what they
seem, inventing impressive CVs and sending photos of beautiful people
which in no way resemble their true selves. Most of their victims lost
money and hope, but a few lost their lives.
; width=){kind=small}
Killers on the Web by
Berry-Dee C & Morris S
