Re: Cornbleet - Murder suspect linked to Web posts
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- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:50:10 -0400
"Indigo Ace" <indigoace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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From the Chicago Tribune--
Murder suspect linked to Web posts
Repeated criticism of Loop doctor put on Internet forum
By Angela Rozas and Kristen Kridel | Tribune staff reporters
September 11, 2007
Just nine months after the murder of a Loop dermatologist, a man who
identified himself on an Internet forum as Hans Peterson wrote that he
believed there would be no justice in the legal system for the makers
of Accutane, a drug he blamed for his loss of sexual enjoyment and
persistent ringing in the ears.
"If you seek real justice, it will not come through the legal system
-- they know this, that's why they continue to deceive and play
ignorant," the man wrote in July, just one of 64 posts he made on a
Web site forum for people who took the controversial drug used to
treat acne and say they suffered ill effects.
Although the posts never mention him by full name, the person
identified as "hansp" on the Accutane/Roaccutane Action Group Forum is
likely 29-year-old Hans Peterson, a suspect in the slaying of Dr.
David Cornbleet last year, said Hans Peterson's father, Thomas.
"That looks like my son's writing," said Thomas Peterson by telephone.
Cathy Spokes Perkins, a longtime moderator for the site who lives in
the United Kingdom, said that a man who identified himself as Hans
Peterson when he registered on the site logged on as hansp, and said
he had been posting for years.
The details and dates of the man's use and problems also mirror those
alleged in Peterson's life. Chicago police said they are aware of
numerous blogs and "ancillary outlets" of information that are part of
the ongoing Peterson investigation, but they would not comment
further.
Peterson, a suspect in the Oct. 24 killing of Cornbleet, traveled to
the French-controlled island of St. Martin, where he turned himself in
to authorities Aug. 6. He remains on the French Caribbean island of
Guadeloupe, where authorities have so far refused to extradite him
because he has both French and U.S. citizenship. Sources said he
admitted killing Cornbleet to French police, and blamed Cornbleet for
prescribing the drug to him.
The posts, which were first reported on a blog called The Outfit by
Chicago writer Kevin Guilfoile, span five years and show a man
distressed with what he said were side effects of taking Accutane
twice in 2002. The posts also show Peterson's anger toward the company
and the doctor who prescribed the drug.
Lawsuits have alleged Accutane causes depression and has contributed
to suicides, and warnings on the package describe the possibility of
those side effects. But the maker of the drug, Roche, denies a link
between the drug and violent side effects.
The first post by hansp was in June 2002, when the man described going
to a dermatologist in April for mild, but persistent acne. He called
the dermatologist an "unethical old man" and said the doctor told him
it was a safe and popular drug and didn't show him consent forms for
the drug.
Peterson said he took it for two days and stopped, but felt a number
of effects, including depression, the loss of sexual sensation and
persistent ringing in the ears, a condition known as tinnitus. In
numerous posts over the years, hansp described taking anti-depressants
to help his symptoms, debated with posters on ways to get more
attention about their concerns, argued with other posters who
questioned whether his problems were psychological, and expressed
resignation, saying he did not believe he could be cured.
In February 2003, he described difficulties he was having while at law
school.
"Perhaps I can use whatever legal knowledge I gain to take my revenge
... I have nothing else to live for," he wrote.
Relatives of Cornbleet have said he was a caring and attentive doctor
who worked long hours to meet his patients' needs.
On Oct. 10, two weeks before Cornbleet was stabbed to death, hansp
posted a message about an article on dopamine. He did not post again
until Feb. 7.
"Doubt my problems and their connection to Accutane all you want - I
know I wouldn't believe a word of it if I had never taken the drug and
someone told me the story I have told above," he said.
On his final two posts in early July, about a month before Peterson
turned himself in to French authorities, hansp said justice would not
be found in the legal system.
"Would legal justice even be justice, anyway? The people who have
profited from Roche's deception won't be personally brought to justice
-- they will be shielded from personal liability," he wrote.
this almost reminds me a bit of the way Joseph Duncan posted a lot about his
thoughts online.
td
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-cornbleet11sep11,1,5438462.story
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