Tom Hackbarth, a Minnesota State Representative, started the trend when he used armed staking of a woman he met online, who may only exist in his imagination, to explain his presence in the parking lot of a Planned Parenthood clinic.
And now we have the story of a suicidal father who claims to have entrusted his three sons to the care of a woman with whom he had an online relationship but whose existence police hasn't been able to confirm.
