Cyberspace vigilanties

DARDENNE PRAIRIE, Mo. – Megan Meier was buried in the polka-dot dress she planned to wear for her 14th birthday. She had handed out the invitations to her party the day she died.

Her eighth-grade classmates attended her funeral, instead, heads bowed and hands clasped as her casket was loaded into the hearse.

At the time, Megan's suicide was considered a private tragedy in a quiet suburb near St. Louis. A collective grief seemed to envelop the look-alike houses on Waterford Crystal Drive.

A year passed before the truth began coming out.

In November, the grieving parents told their local newspaper that a 47-year-old neighbor – a family friend – had orchestrated a cruel prank on MySpace.com , driving Megan to hang herself in her bedroom closet.

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