Megan Meier had made a new friend on Myspace when a cute teenage boy named Josh contacted her and began exchanging messages with her. Megan, a 13-year-old who suffered from depression and attention deficit disorder, corresponded with Josh for more than a month before he abruptly ended their friendship, telling her he had heard she was cruel. The next day Megan committed suicide by hanging herself. It was later learned that Josh never actually existed; he was created by a former friend of Megan's. Megan's parents are now hoping the people who made the fake profile on Myspace will be prosecuted. The girl's mother, Tina Meier, said she doesn't think anyone involved intended for her daughter to kill herself. Law enforcement officials have said the case did not fit into any law. But sheriff's officials have not closed the case and pledged to consider new evidence if it emerges. Megan Meier hanged herself in her bedroom on Oct. 16, 2006, and died the next day. She was said to be a normally happy girl who loved hanging out with her friends, watching movies and fishing with her dad. Megan had been on medication and had been upbeat before her death, after striking up a relationship on MySpace with Josh Evans about six weeks before her death. Josh had said he was born in Florida and had recently moved nearby. He said he was home schooled, and didn't yet have a phone number in the area to give her. Megan's received a message from him on Oct. 15, essentially saying he didn't want to be her friend anymore, that he had heard she wasn't nice to her friends. The next day Megan's mother knew she was upset about the messages online. Someone was using Josh's account to send cruel messages. Then, Megan called her mother, saying electronic bulletins were being posted about her, saying things like, "Megan Meier is a slut. Megan Meier is fat." Megan's mother, who monitored her daughter's online communications, said she was shocked at the vulgar language her own daughter was sending. She told her daughter how upset she was about it. Megan ran upstairs and her father tried to tell her everything would be alright. About 20 minutes later, she was found in her bedroom. She died the next day. Her father said he found a message the next day from Josh. It told the girl she was a bad person and the world would be better without her. Another parent, who learned her own daughter had access to the Josh profile, told Megan's parents about the prank in a counselor's office about six weeks after Megan died. That's when they learned Josh was imaginary. The woman who created the fake profile has not been charged with a crime. She allegedly told the St. Charles County Sheriff's Department she created Josh's profile because she wanted to gain Megan's confidence to know what Megan was saying about her own child online. The mother told police that she, her daughter and another person all typed and monitored the communication between the fictitious boy and Megan.