After being stalked online -- without her knowledge, for years -- Amy Boyer's life came to a sudden end.

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While Youens was the person most immediately responsible for the murder, he ended his own life immediately.

Paison, who investigated Boyer's murder, says some of the burden should be shouldered by the Internet service providers.

"I think absolutely, these Internet service providers are responsible for what they carry on the Internet," Paison said. "They're making a fortune. It's a billion-dollar industry. There should be some federal or governmental regulation as to what you have to do or the approvals you have to meet, before you can put something on the Internet."

Yet, the Communications Decency Act states that ISPs, like GeoCities, which hosted Youens' site, cannot be held responsible for the postings of third parties.

And while Tim Remsburg has a clear understanding of the law, he says morally, it's a different story.

"That's the hardest thing," he said. "Knowing how easy this thing could have been avoided and how unfair it was that I wasn't notified. No one let me know that I'm in this, this war with this kid. You know, these companies said there were at least 50 hits on the site, you know? Most were probably him creating the site, we don't know. But I'm sure some weren't."

Trudy Gregorie, director of training at the National Center for Victims of Crime, believes that something could have been done before the murder.

"If indeed she had known that she was being cyberstalked, that there were pages that described what her murder would be like, then indeed she could have taken some actions, that, that maybe could have given her measures of protection," Gregorie said.

"Certainly the Internet service providers who were allowing these types of home pages to exist on their service could have removed those home pages.

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