I found some cache in waybackmachine, too. Interestingly, somebody just made up the killer's journal to tease him http://vampirefreaks.com/u/Trench It's my personal opinion but if the decision of removing the journal was made by the sites themselves, this copy site will be removed soon with the same reason. In the case of Japan, since 2004 when "net-group-suicide" has become in vogue, the law has obliged providers to report criminal/suicide-suggestive messages to the official. From comparative perspective, I'm interested in Canadian cases... Yukari -- M.A. candidate Communication and Culture Studies Comcult GSA Webmaster (York) yukaseko@yorku.ca Quoting "Sara M. Grimes" <smgrimes@sfu.ca>:
Thank you to those who have suggested I look in Google cache and similar web archives.
Just to clarify on my last post and question, however, I'm trying to find information about how and why and by whom the journal was deleted. It seems that this is standard practice in these cases, but who makes the actual decision to remove it - is it the sites themselves, or is it a standard part of the police investigation (or is there even some law within the patriot act that dictates that they have to)?