The Wacky World Of Murder: Liam Youens




Liam Youens	BORN: ?? DIED: October 15, 1999 VICTIMS: 1
I guess it was always bound to happen. I mean there must be potential murderers visiting this site every day, but this is the first time that I know of any of you lot going through with your plans. What the fuck am I going on about? Liam Youens, a guy that signed the guestbook at this site, went out and killed a girl that he had been infatuated with for over eight years on Friday the 15th of October, 1999. You want to hear more? Liam had barely spoken to Amy Boyer since their initial meeting in eighth grade, but according to her parents he became obsessed with the young woman over the following years. He told the world of his 'interest' on his webpage, which has already been removed but I will be striving to find a new link for it ASAP. Anyway, his 'interest' was Amy. For those lucky enough to have seen his site they will be in total agreeance that Liam's infatuation was well out of control. The site was 'dedicated' to Amy. He had numerous pictures of her and her friends, and stories of his time with her Christian youth group. The site began, ''Amy Boyer. Hi, my name is Liam, and this site is dedicated to that wonderful person Amy Boyer.'' A very weird guy I'm sure you’d agree. ''He openly talked about what he planned to do, for anyone who found his page to see,'' said Tim Remsburg, Amy’s stepfather. But as I'm sure anyone who's set up a webpage will know it's very easy to not be seen on the Wide World Web. The stepfather went on to say, ''The only problem for us is that we didn't know about it. Nobody in her family, none of her friends, Amy herself never knew about it.'' Perhaps she should have paid some attention to the losers that followed her around then. Youens listed three goals on his web site - to kill Boyer, a person identified only as ''Owen,'' and as many of the students at Nashua High School that had mocked him, as possible. He also explained why he planned to kill the girl/woman. He had loved her, but not any more, and he couldn't understand why. According to police he was doing it to show the family and the local Police Department, that he was in complete control. Amy's family have also called for a regulation of the internet, ''I'm angry because we as a public have so little control over what is on the Internet." Liam's website had been on display for at least two years. Since no one reported it, It would seem to be pretty resonable to assume that there is no way possible that we will be able to crack down on sites like this in the future. What a pity. The family also had a crack at this humble little site stating that sites like this that "advocate criminal actions” to be removed from their servers before people like Liam can be influenced by them. Obviously I find this an astounding statement. It’s ludicrous to say thing like this, I mean over 300 people have signed the guestbook and only one of those (that I know of) has gone on to murder anyone, and it’s quite obvious that he was already well fucked up before viewing anything I ever typed up. I guess that I should be grateful to them and the newspaper though as they have helped bump up the number of visitors to this site over the past week. One of Amy's friends, Bethanie Walters, said that ''Amy had no idea of this guy, no idea she was being stalked,'' said the girl whose picture was on Liam's site. ''Amy would have spoken out and said something. She was the type of person who would have said something.'' Walters said she, Amy and Jen vonHagn, all of Nashua, had met Youens at a local church camp. ''He was a very quiet boy,'' Walters said. ''He never spoke out much. He was just a very quiet boy.'' Through high school, Walters said she and Boyer occasionally would see Youens on the school bus, but rarely spoke to him. ''He was one of those people you don't even know is there at all,'' VonHagn said. Brian Boyer said the youth group was the only time his sister and Youens' paths crossed. "She never knew that he had any feelings for her whatsoever." According to the Boston Globe, Liam had written something on a site about suicide. He was painted as a guy that didn't have the guts to kill himself, something he proved wasn't true later. ''when I tried this, right before I cut ... I dropped the knife and vomited.'' Again from the Boston Globe, "He was the only graduate of Nashua High School to post an entry on the school's alumni Web page, but under 'life story,' he wrote, 'Ummm ... I better not, but you can email me if you would like to find out more.' He gave ''johndoe'' as his user name." At this site Youens gave his job title as software engineer and included Rochester Institute of Technology under education. He was listed in the student directory. So after all this, what did Liam do? Apparently he waited in his car for Boyer outside the dentist's office where she worked, pulled up next to her, and shot her several times before shooting himself. Yeah I know, a very anti-climactic end to this story, but I think he may have made it to this site even if he didn't sign the guestbook. AND AS AN AMUSING POSTSCRIPT: Both Youens and Boyer will be buried from The Church of the Good Shepherd. It was this church where the two first met while attending the youth group. QUOTE OF THE DAY: ''How could somebody who was unstable and so clearly reaching out for help get a legal permit for this arsenal of guns?'' Some of Liam's poetry: Youens also included poetry about loneliness. ''Seventy years of misery is my fate, can anyone have the answer,'' and ''I pretend to be reading. I'm just thinking about dieing [sic],'' AND NOW FOR THE BIT YOU'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR...
MY OPINION How can this guy write, "BTW too much emphisis is put on serial killers, most of them are losers who can't get a date," in my guestbook. I mean if HE could get a date then why did he have to worship a girl (who wasn't THAT attractive) from a distance. I mean they are the comments of a guy that goes out shagging every weekend, not a pitiful loser that needs to kill someone to get any recognition from his peers. So I'm putting Liam down? Yeah. I mean he didn't even say anything particularly nice about this site. Maybe if he put that he loved it as much as he did Amy, and maybe if he wrote me something decent in his email instead of crap like, "Why don't you put more on school killers?", then maybe I'd like him more. But I doubt it. Still, it's pretty cool that he visited the site and got me quoted in some U.S. papers. Very cool in fact. Shame it wasn't a decent murder, and he was such a pathetic loser. I would have claimed him as my own if it was, but I guess I'll have to settle with this for now. note: I am NOT condoning his actions. I would NEVER condone any act of murder. So don't do it!!! Now I won't get sued by anyone I guess I can say that I would put you on the site :-)