“The Internet has become a staple source of information for American households about health care, government services and potential purchases, a survey to be issued on Monday finds.” NY Times … which neatly seques into this:

Killing prompts suit against Internet brokers: This story about the obsessed father reaching out to sue anyone he could after his daughter’s murder is “no different from that of other parents who lose a child”, as even this article concedes. But the obsessed killer, that’s a different, chilling, matter:

Boyer and Youens graduated from Nashua High School in 1997. Though her family says she never knew him, Youens had an obsession for Boyer that went back to junior high.

The infatuation was chronicled on a Web site where Youens described his murder plot in gruesome detail.

“I don’t love her anymore, I wish I did but I don’t,” he wrote. “I wish I could have killed her in Highschool (sic). I need to kill her so I can transport myself back into highschool. I need to stop her from having a life.”

Youens paid Docusearch Inc. of Boca Raton, Florida, about $150 to get Boyer’s Social Security number and other information, including her work address.

“Docusearch pulled through (amazingly) it’s like a dream,” Youens wrote on his Web site.

A few weeks later, Youens pulled alongside Boyer’s car after she left her job at a dental office and shot her 11 times before killing himself. CNN