He also recalled realizing in the 10th grade that he was in love with her and deciding shortly thereafter to kill her and himself, the Globe said. But Youens, who dropped out of college after a year and was living at his parents' home, found it difficult to stalk Boyer, in part because she often was surrounded by family. So he turned to online research services to track her. Web site Remsburg said he is angry that Geocities and Tripod didn't monitor their content and that Youens was able to use Internet companies including Docusearch and Infoseekers to hunt down Boyer's personal information. Internet companies say monitoring content is not technologically feasible.
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A Tripod official said that almost no one visited Youens' site and that they would have told police about it had they seen it. Tripod officials said they destroyed Youens' site as soon as police notified them about it. A Geocities spokesman refused to comment on Youens' site there. A spokeswoman for one research agency told the Globe the information it sells is gathered from public sources such as court or motor vehicle records. APB Multimedia Inc. All rights reserved.