So for a while now I’ve been collecting webpages of killers. I haven’t done it by any grand design, but whenever a news story comes out about a killer, very often you hear about (or can simply find on your own) the weblog or other info that the killer maintained before they turned to killing.
Looking back, the first killer website I ever saw was probably the multi-colored Heaven’s Gate site of the sicko San Diegan web designers back in 1997.They scared the shit out of me.
I started back again recently with Jeff Weise, the kid who killed himself and 9 others and kept a LiveJournal, had a Yahoo and an MSN profile, posted stories to bulletin boards, and sought community at Neo-Nazi sites. An active online life had he.
Then the track of the news took us to Joseph Edward Duncan and his disturbing Blogger life called "Blogging the Fifth Nail". In the last post before he apparently went on a murderous and rapacious rampage, he wrote, "
I wish I could be more honest about my feelings, but those demons made sure I’d never be able to do that". There are currently 1200 comments to his last post.
The most recent killer website I’ve seen contains relatively Not-Safe-For-Work photos on Jeanette Sliwinski, the woman who killed three guys on their lunch break with her car. More on her later.
But the killer websites I’m most interested in, and hear the most about, but am unable to find, is the "Isalamist websites" that claim credit for terror attacks. Where are they?