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TexasTowelie

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Mon Nov 18, 2013, 09:24 PM Nov 2013

1 year prison sentence for man who lured A&M professor into online relationship that lead to suicide

A Louisiana man was sentenced to one year in federal prison Monday for using an underage relative to lure a Texas A&M University professor into a sexually explicit online relationship that led to blackmail, and ended when the educator leapt to his death from a campus parking garage.

Daniel Timothy Duplaisir, 38, had demanded in insulting, obscenity-laced tirades that James Aune, chairman of the school's Communication Department, pay him to $5,000 to cover the cost of therapy for a supposedly transgender teenage relative.

"If I do not hear from you, I swear to God Almighty that police, your place of employment, students all over the Internet -- all of them -- will be able to see your conversations, texts and the pictures you sent," Duplaisir said one of several threatening messages as he sought to more and more money from the professor.

But in a final act on Jan. 8 2013, at 10:29 a.m. the 59-year-old professor turned the table on Duplaisir.

More at http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/One-year-prison-sentence-for-man-who-lured-A-M-4991514.php?cmpid=hpbn .

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