There were two more murders 15 miles away in the Silver Lake section of Los Angeles.

We have a weird homicide.

Chat rooms can be dangerous.

Filled with anonymous people who can lie with just a few strokes of a keyboard,

it's sometimes hard to find the good in meeting people online. On September 15, 2006, a man

pulled the trigger and removed one person from his devastating online love triangle. So if you like

your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and start

your day with a morning cup of murder. Thomas Montgomery in the year 2005 was a loving father,

a husband, a machinist, and a devoted Sunday school teacher living in upstate New York with his family.

He was also a man who, at 46, got onto the children's section of a gaming chat room

and began conversing with an 18-year-old high school student with the username Tall Hot Blonde.

Masquerading as an 18-year-old Marine named Tommy with the username Marine sniper,

Thomas found out that the girl, Jesse, played basketball and softball, was absolutely gorgeous,

and just so happened to be a virgin.

Eventually, photos were exchanged, and using a 30-year-old photograph of him while serving

in the Marines, Thomas began regaling his new friend with stories that hinted at covert

ops and dangerous missions.

It wasn't long before both the photos and the conversations turned somewhat suggestive,

and the pair began engaging in an affair that involved packages filled with love notes

and talks about marriage.

It was at this point that Thomas, in his own words, began seeing his online life as the

real world and even wrote a note to himself declaring that, quote, on January 2, 2006,

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