The Curse of D&D

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The 60 minutes acknowledges you can't reduce murder or suicide to just one simple cause. The psychiatrist they interview in the story blames 28 deaths on the influence of the game. One mother, whose son took his own life, describes finding out after his death that he played D&D. Greg was pointedly asked if anyone had acted strangely while they were playing it. Jeff had gotten these kind of questions too. This is the kind of set him up to rat someone out.

The UNABOM investigation was one of the longest manhunts in American history - it lasted for 18 years starting in 1978. Before the FBI started investigating Ted Kaczynski, they looked into a number of suspects, including a group of friends who loved playing Dungeons & Dragons.

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