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Internet Romance Ends With Chain Saw Suicide

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Topsham, Maine - A Missouri man who came to Maine to pursue a relationship with a woman he had met over the Internet died after cutting his neck with a chain saw on her front lawn to prove his love.

James Dinardi, 44, of Columbia, Mo., died at a hospital Monday. Police said he had moved to the area on June 23.

"The distraught individual had met the individual lady on the Internet, started up a romance,'' Police Chief Paul J. Lessard said.

But the woman apparently wanted to end the relationship, so Dinardi drove up to her home, pulled a chain saw from the trunk and cut part of his neck off to show her how much he cared for her, Lessard said.

Police withheld the woman's name.

July 7, 1999
Source: Newswire

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