Catfish murders, vengeful exes & deadly insults – chilling rise of ‘Facebook killers’ & what …

IT’S late at night and a friend request from a stranger pops up on your feed – it seems harmless enough, but by accepting it you might have signed your own death warrant. Welcome to the sinister age of the ‘Facebook Killer’, a modern breed of monster forged by the dawn of social media, who, according to top criminologists, can take six chilling ‘forms’ – and put any one of us at risk. 10 Peter Chapman was jailed for life for the kidnap, rape and murder of 17-year-old Ashleigh Hall Credit: PA:Press Association 10 Murdered teenager Salum Kombo, whose friend was upset by online comments Credit: Collect Over the decades, social media killers have dominated headlines, but experts explain they can wear many masks – ranging from ‘Tinder Swindler’-style con artists to jilted lovers embarrassed by their personal lives being exposed online. In what is considered one of the first social media killings, a 17-year-old girl was lured into a meeting by an adult sex offender posing as a teenager who then kidnapped and murdered her. Another saw a lorry driver murder his estranged wife with a meat cleaver after she changed her online status to single, while one featured
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