You might not remember it, but quite a while ago we ran a story where Advance Wars had somehow been linked to a murder. 20-year-old Mathew Pyke was found stabbed to death last year, and it had been believed that his Internet habits, in particular the running of an Advance Wars fan site, led to the killing.
David Heiss, a 21-year-old German office worker, has been found guilty of the murder, with police saying that he planned the attack "like a strategist." Heiss had, as suspected, met his victim through the Advance Wars fan site, along with Pyke's girlfriend Joanna Wilton. He had become insanely jealous of David Pyke's relationship with Wilton after becoming obsessed with her, driving him to stab the man 86 times in a "savage and sustained" assault.
"He planned it like a strategist in one of his war games," said Detective Inspector Tony Heydon. "He tried to cover his tracks and has lied continuously to the police and latterly to the court ... Heiss stabbed Matthew 86 times in a frenzied attack. He is the most callous, cold-hearted individual I have ever dealt with."
Just goes to show that dangerous psychopaths can come from anywhere, regardless of whether they play GTA. It's not the games that make the man.
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11:30 PM on 05.15.2009
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wait for turn and attack target, check.
retreat to city to replenish weapon and gas, check.
yep, game caused murder.
A guy who actually did plan a murder like a strategist would probably choose a less messy method to kill someone.... this guy just sounds like a nutcase who, after the murder, had the minimal number of brain cells to know he was in deep shit if he got caught.
I look on the bright side
By this acount OJ Simpson could be considered a "strategist"... He stabs the 2 people, lies about it, and then tops the guy by getting away with it. Hes a regular Napoleon Bonaparte.
I bet OJ would love Advance Wars.
"As he was dying, Pyke, 20, used his own blood to write the first three letters of Heiss's name on the side of his computer to alert police to his killer's identity."
So he lived long enough after all those stabs to write that. that has to be a hard long way to die.
This is a pic of that zit-fuck
img]http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g80/Septon/captphoto_1242043324647-1-0.jpg[/img]
If that guy really played Advance Wars he would have used a tank.