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They didn't actually meet online - according to the news stories, they met when she visited the campus before going to school there. Which doesn't make it any less creepy, depressing, or whatever, and I don't know why I'm being so pedantic and making this point. Except maybe to say that you can meet weird, creepy, bad motherfuckers anywhere and shitty things happen with or without Myspace, LJ, or whatever. It's just those things give the rest of us a chance to peek in on those nutters without having to wait for the book.