Valentine’s Day suicide man tried to entice women for years

AN Oregon man who used an internet chat room to try to set up a mass suicide on Valentine’s Day had been trying to persuade women for at least five years to engage in sex acts with him and then kill themselves, a sheriff said.

Gerald Krein is charged with solicitation to commit murder and prosecutors are expected to add an attempted manslaughter charge today, said Klamath County Sheriff Tim Evinger.

Combing through old chat room records, investigators discovered that Krein had been trying to entice women across North America to commit suicide as far back as 2000, Mr Evinger said. Krein told investigators he been in touch with 31 women, authorities said.