Man 'set Valentine suicide pact'

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BBC
A US man has been charged with using an internet chat room to try to set up a mass suicide pact for Valentine's Day.

Police are now trying to use computer records to trace dozens of potential participants in the US and Canada.

Gerald Krien, 26, from Klamath Falls, Oregon, was charged on Friday with trying to solicit aggravated murder.

Police were alerted by a Canadian woman who became worried after learning that a mother planned to kill her two children before killing herself.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4259079.stm

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1. Another piece on the story.... Tooo bizarre!

An Oregon man who recently moved from Northern California has been arrested on suspicion of soliciting women and children on the Internet for a Valentine's Day mass suicide on the lawn of his parents' home.

Dean Krein, 26, was arrested Wednesday in Klamath Falls, a town of 20,000 just 15 miles north of the California border.

Krein was arraigned Thursday on a charge of solicitation to commit murder. That charge stems from one woman he contacted who apparently planned to kill her two children before she killed herself, said Capt. Chris Montenaro of the Klamath County Sheriff's Department.

Montenaro said authorities were alerted to the plan on Tuesday by a Canadian woman who was to participate in what Krein called his "suicide party. "

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