Strange Days Have Found Us
Pictured: the late Paul Berkley. CLICK on the photograph to go to his blog.Scenario: Police say Monique Berkley asked two teens (she was sleeping with one of them) to kill her husband, Paul, just home from Iraq. She and her late husband both had blogs. So did their two kids. The local paper, the News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C. quoted from (and linked to) all of them in its coverage.
"With so much written about blogging in the past year, it's amazing that just now we are witnessing the kind of high-profile crime case that raises new and, some say, troubling issues about how reporters and editors should regard the very personal, yet very public, information shared on Web logs..."
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Beware where you point, click and post your most personal details. information on blogs can be used in court, like letters and phone calls, especially since it's easy to prove on whose computer the blogs were created.Andrew Canty and Latwon Johnson, both 18, are charged in the murder.
Canty and Johnson were having relationships with Monique Berkley, as well as Paul Berkley's daughter, according to a family friend's blog. The blog includes a picture of all four together. "It's all just so ironic, isn't it?" Becky Berkley wrote Tuesday on her own blog, MistressBecky, as her stepmother was making her first court appearance. "My dad was in the Middle East for months and months and didn't get shot... then he came home, where you'd assume he'd be much safer... and then, all this happened."
I don't think this is the typical American family: Paul was known to keep a komodo dragon in his house. Monique had once been involved with a woman who has since had a sex-change operation and become a man. Their son is a punk rocker who tops his MySpace blog with, "I kill for sex."
Blogs as Evidence? - Investigators turn to blogs in Berkley murderMonique Berkley is charged with murdering her Navy reservist husband. Andrew Canty and Latwon Johnson, both black, also are charged in the murder. Canty and Johnson were having relationships with Monique Berkley, as well as Paul Berkley's daughter Becky, according to a family friend's blog. The blog includes a picture of all four together. - (NNN Newsroom)
NOTE: Some of the sources below disappeared between 10pm last night at 3AM today. If you see anything you're interested in, either "save" the webpage on your harddrive or perform a "print screen" then paste into a graphics editor to save. We learned our lesson with the Lynx & Lamb episode involving Teen People!
At least ONE blogger was thoughtful enough to copy some of the now-missing material: Click HERE to visit THE DARK SIDE.
RELATED: Monique Berkley Blog - Becky Berkley blog - Zeke Berkley blogs - Zeke Berkley - "I kill for sex"
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