The first known Internet suicide pact occurred in Japan, October 2000. A 46 year old male dentist and a 25 year old woman met each other through a suicide website chatroom and exchanged numerous e-mails in which they asked for the support of the other in committing suicide. They later met at the mans house and swallowed a lethal quantity of sleeping pills.

Japan’s ‘internet suicide’ community is a growing, and morbid underworld of chat rooms and websites with names like “Suicide Club” where thousands of young people meet and plan their deaths.

Some say sites can be a place to discuss suicidal thoughts and other subjects hard to discuss in real life and people can use the sites to find another to share in their death, so they don’t have to go through it alone. Others argue that some of the sites really encourage people to kill themselves, and the group creates a momentum which makes it hard to stop - members egg each other on until they become irrational.

Overall Japan has one of the highest suicide rates in the world. Internet suicide pacts represent 2% of all group suicide pacts, and around 0.01% of all suicides combined. However, they are on the increase with 34 deaths from such pacts occurred in 2003; at least 50 are estimated to have occurred in 2004; and 91 occurred in 2005, with these figures set to rise further.

Complex 320-325, Naval Amphibious Base, Coronado

When veiwed from the air Complex 320-325, of the Naval Amphibious Base, Coronado is shaped like a swastika. A draft study conducted by the National Register of Historic Places noted that the shape of the six-building complex was simply an oversight that went undetected during the Navy’s approval process.

In early 2007 the San Diego chapter of the Anti-Defamation League began quiet talks with the Navy, and on September 26, 2007 the Navy announced that they would budget up to $600,000, to modify the buildings’ walkways and rooftop to hide the swastika look from the air.

Serial Killer Statistics

Of all the states in the union, California has the single highest number of serial homicide cases in the twentieth century - fully 16 percent of the national total. Maine, on the other hand, had the lowest - none. Other states to avoid: New York, Texas, Illinois, and Florida. The safest places in America, at least in terms of serial murder, are Hawaii, Montana, North Dakota, and Vermont, each of which had only one case of serial murder in the twentieth century.

• The United States is the hands-down leading producer of serial killers, with 76 percent of the world’s total. Europe comes in a distant second with a measly 17 percent.
  
• England has produced 28 percent of the European total. Germany is a very close second with 27 percent, and France is third with 13 percent.
  
• In terms of demographics, the vast majority of American serial killers - fully 84 percent - are Caucasian and a mere 16 percent black.
  
• In terms of gender, men constitute the overwhelming preponderance of serial killers - at least 90 percent. Indeed, depending on how the crime is defined, many experts believe that serial murder is an exclusively male activity.
  
• While women constitute, at most, an infinitesimal fraction of serial murderers, they make up the majority of victims - 65 percent.
  
• It is very rare for a serial killer to prey on members of another race. Since most serial killers are white, so are the vast majority of victims - 89 percent.
  
• Serial murder tends to be a young person’s crime. Most serial killers - 44 percent - embark on their deadly careers in their twenties, with 26 percent starting out in their teens and 24 percent in their thirties.

Sleep tight

Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, If I shall die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.

Heavens Gate Cult

Heaven’s Gate was an American UFO religion based in San Diego, California, founded and led by Marshall Applewhite (1931–1997) and Bonnie Nettles (1928–1985). On March 26, 1997, police discovered the bodies of 39 members of the group who had committed suicide in order to reach an alien space craft which they believed was following the Comet Hale-Bopp.

Varg Arrested

“In October 2003, Varg Vikernes failed to return to his low-security prison in Tønsberg, Norway after having been granted a short leave. He was found riding in a stolen Volvo car, which, according to the media, contained an unloaded AG3 automatic rifle, a handgun, numerous large knives, a gas mask, camouflage clothing, a laptop, a compass, a Global Positioning System, various maps and a fake passport (it is thought that Vikernes came to be in possession of this equipment by means of a military barracks). For this thirteen months were added to his sentence, and he was moved to a maximum-security prison in Trondheim.”

Elyse Marie Pahler

Elyse Marie Pahler (April 24, 1980 – July 22, 1995) was a murder victim, whose parents attempted to sue the American thrash metal band Slayer claiming that their music contributed to their daughter’s death.


Fifteen year old Elyse Pahler’s body was discovered near her home in Arroyo Grande, California, in March 1996. She had been raped and murdered there eight months earlier by acquaintances Jacob Delashmutt, Joseph Fiorella and Royce Casey. The trio had lured Elyse from her house with the stated intention of killing her as part of a satanic ritual, although the crime bears many of the hallmarks of similar sexually motivated murders. The perpetrators apparently returned to the corpse and had sex with it on several occasions. The body was located after Casey confessed to the crime following a religious conversion to Christianity.


In their defense, the defendants said they had needed to commit a “sacrifice to the devil” in order to give their heavy metal band, Hatred, the “craziness” to “go professional”. All three eventually pleaded no contest to her murder and are now imprisoned and serving 25 years to life.


David and Lisanne Pahler claimed that the Slayer songs “Postmortem” and “Dead Skin Mask” gave the three killers detailed instructions to “stalk, rape, torture, murder and commit acts of necrophilia” on their daughter. The lawsuit was originally filed in 1996 but delayed until 2000 when the killers’ trial was concluded. Initially the case was thrown out of court as the judge stated “There’s not a legal position that could be taken that would make Slayer responsible for the girl’s death. Where do you draw the line? You might as well start looking through the library at every book on the shelf.”


Undeterred however, the Pahlers launched a second lawsuit claiming that Slayer “knowingly distributed harmful material to minors.” This case too was dismissed, with Judge E. Jeffrey Burke stating, “I do not consider Slayer’s music obscene, indecent or harmful to minors.” Jacob Delashmutt himself stated in a Washington Post interview that “The music is destructive [but] that’s not why Elyse was murdered. She was murdered because Joe [Fiorella] was obsessed with her, and obsessed with killing her.”

Columbine crime scene report

Body # 11

Dylan Klebold, a white male, was on his back with his head pointing East. His legs were bent at the hip with his knees towards the North and his lower legs pointing West. His left arm was across his stomach with a fingerless black glove on his left hand. His right arm was extended by his side and his right hand was around the grip of the TEC - 9 pistol. Grey tape, holding two match strikes to the inside of his forearm, was around his right wrist. He was wearing a black t - shirt with the word “WRATH ” in red on the front, black cargo - type pants, black boots and white socks. A large knife was on the left side of his belt. His face was blood-stained and a pool of blood was on the carpet under his head. Ammunition on his body included 14 rounds of 2 3/4 Federal Shotgun shells in an ammunition belt around his waist; in a bandoleer were 19 rounds of Federal 00 buckshells; and numerous live shotgun shells in a pants pocket. Klebold had a near contact wound to his left temple with a corresponding exit wound through his right temple. He also aspirated blood. He could have been capable of some involuntary movement.

Body # 12

Eric Harris, a white male, was to the North of Klebold. The upper back was leaning against the bottom shelf of the West side of Row 6 with his head pointed South. His skull was open at the top and the shelves behind him and the ceiling above him and the carpet below his head were blood-stained. His arms were by his chest with this forearms and hand angled up towards his face. He had a fingerless glove on his right hand, which was next to a green pouch with Shotgun shells. He was wearing a white t - shirt with the words “NATURAL SELECTION ” on the front, black pants with a green ammunition belt, black boots and a knife strapped to his right leg. He had an ammunition pouch in his left cargo pants pocket. The pouch contained 10 rounds of Winchester 12 Gauge Shotgun shells, each shell labels as containing 15 pellets of 00 buck. Two single - column magazines with 9mm rounds were in his pants pocket. A black ball cap with the letter ’ B ’ was between HARRIS’s leg and KLEBOLD’s head. Harris had a shotgun wound to his head with the muzzle in his mouth. Bleeding was observed through his nose. The left knee of his pant leg was blood - soaked and a piece of skull was found to the North of his left calf. The stains on the ceiling and shelves were consistent with HARRIS receiving the gunshot wound to his head while in a seated position.

Dimebag Darrell Murder

Darrell Lance Abbott AKA ”Dimebag Darrell” the founding member of the heavy metal bands Pantera and Damageplan was murdered onstage on December 8 2004. Abbott was shot onstage while performing with Damageplan at the Alrosa Villa in Columbus, Ohio by 25 year old former marine Nathan Gale. Minutes into the band’s set, Dimebag Darrell’s bodyguard exited the stage, at which moment Gale ran onto the stage from the wing and began shooting, hitting Dimebag’s torso and head eight times, killing him instantly. Gale then continued shooting, killing four others and wounding a further seven. Gale fired a total of fifteen shots, stopping to reload once and remaining silent throughout the shooting.

• Jeff “Mayhem” Thompson, the band’s head of security, was killed while engaging in hand-to-hand combat with Gale after chasing him onto the stage as he shot Dimebag.
• Audience member Nathan Bray was shot and killed while trying to perform CPR on Dimebag and Mayhem.
• Erin Halk, an Alrosa Villa employee, attempted to charge Gale when he ran out of bullets. However, Gale was able to reload faster than anticipated and killed Halk.
• Damageplan drum technician, John “Kat” Brooks, was shot three times as he attempted to get the gun away from Gale, but was overpowered and taken hostage in a headlock position.

• Tour manager Chris Paluska and Damageplan singer Pat Lachman was also shot and injured.

Seven police officers came in the front entrance, and Officer James D. Niggemeyer came in through the back door, behind the stage. Gale only saw the officers in front of the stage; he never saw Officer Niggemeyer, who shot Gale in the face and killed him. Gale was found to have had 35 rounds of ammunition remaining.

Early theories of motive suggested that Gale might have turned to violence in response to the breakup of Pantera, or the public dispute between Dimebag and Pantera singer Phil Anselmo, but these were later ruled out by investigators. Another theory was that Gale believed Dimebag had stolen a song that he had written.

Gale had in fact been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 2003 and apparently believed that the band could read his mind, and that they were “stealing” his thoughts and laughing at him.

Dimebag was buried with Eddie Van Halen’s black and yellow-striped Charvel electric guitar. Edward Van Halen originally agreed to make Darrell a copy of the guitar, but upon hearing of Abbott’s death, offered to place the actual guitar in his casket. Dimebag was buried in a KISS Kasket. Kiss frontman Gene Simmons said, “There were a limited number made and I sent mine to the family of ‘Dimebag’ Darrell. He requested in his will to be buried in a Kiss Kasket.”