Case 295
Nadia Kajouji & Mark Drybrough
*** Content warnings: Suicide, self-harm, pregnancy loss ***
When retired schoolteacher Celia Blay stumbled across an online forum where suicidal individuals shared their innermost thoughts, she had no idea that she was about to encounter a serial predator. Li Dao was a young nurse who trawled the forum, looking for people to push over the edge. She encouraged other posters to take their own lives and gave explicit instructions.
As members of the forum started to disappear, Celia Blay became determined to uncover Li Dao’s true identity and put a stop to her crimes. But nothing about Li Dao was as it seemed…
CREDITS
EPISODE
Research & writing – Erin Munro
Creative direction – Milly Raso
Narration – Anonymous Host
MUSIC
‘Flatline intro’ and ‘Come play with me’ intro and outro – www.dl-sounds.com
Audio production – Mike Migas
Scoring – Mike Migas and Andrew Joslyn
OTHER
Logo and website design – Paulina Szymanska
PREMIUM
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RESOURCES
DOCUMENTARIES
Dangerous Connection – NBC
DOCUMENTS
State of Minnesota v. William Francis Melchert-Dinkel – Summons
ARTICLES
‘For the thrill of the chase’: Online predator who posed as female nurse guilty of encouraging suicides – The Standard
Confessions of an internet suicide chat room ghoul – Crimelibrary.org
Ex-nurse accused of encouraging Nadia Kajouji’s suicide has conviction overturned – CTV News
Minn. man who helped coax 2 to suicide gets jail – Deseret News
Pensioner tracks down chatroom ghoul – The Telegraph
Meet Wiltshire’s real life Miss Marple – Wiltshire Times
Nurse may be linked to multiple suicides, tracker says – The Globe and Mail
Dangerous connection – NBC News
Student’s death highlights struggles in 1st year of university – CBC
Coventry family welcomes sentence after web suicides – BBC
Melchert-Dinkel gets half-year in jail over web suicides – BBC
Inside the tragic death of Nadia Kajouji: A teen pushed to suicide by an online predator – People
Unmasking the Faribault, Minn. suicide nurse – Grand Forks Herald
Are you sure you want to quit the world? – GQ
FACT SHEETS & WEBSITES
Suicide risk and protective factors
World Health Organization – Suicide