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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Police Report On Webcam Suicide


NOVEMBER 24--Hours before broadcasting his suicide live via a webcam, a Florida man sent his mother a text message noting that, "It's not even life is boring, I actually loath my life," according to a police report. Abraham Biggs sent his mother the message at 4:18 AM last Wednesday, hours before the 19-year-old college student killed himself with a drug overdose. Biggs's mother told police that she called her son immediately after receiving the text, but that he "insisted that he was neither depressed nor suicidal and that he planned on going to work with his father." The Pembroke Pines Police Department report, a copy of which you'll find below, notes that a police dispatcher initially advised cops that Biggs "appeared to be down in front of his web cam." Police were reportedly contacted by web cam viewers concerned for Biggs's safety. When a quartet of cops broke into Biggs's locked bedroom, they discovered him dead on the bed. A suicide note was atop his computer keyboard. "It should be noted that both computer screens were on and a web cam was facing the bed and it appeared that he may have broadcast his death on the Internet," more

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