Hi All - The shootings at Dawson's College in Montreal, QC, Canada yesterday remain big and deeply disturbing news in Canada, as the Quebec and Montreal police begin to piece together a profile of the killer. Today's CBC online news site mentions a goth/vampire themed web community that the killer belonged to (vampirefreaks.com), where he apparently kept an online diary and gave hints about what he was planning (http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/09/14/gunman-shooting.html). In trying to access his blog today, I discovered that it has unsurprisingly been removed. I'm assuming that police officials are responsible for this, to allow the investigation to proceed without interference, but could also see the site operators taking it down for other reasons. I was wondering if anyone has heard anything to confirm when/why/by whom the diary was removed? Is it standard practice during this type of investigation? I seem to remember hearing about similar blog deletions after past shootings of this kind, but I can't find anything written on this. Sara M. Grimes PhD Candidate/School of Communication Research Assistant/Applied Communication + Technology (ACT) Lab Simon Fraser University