'Nikki’s blood-covered face' in my mind I pictured a lifeless person with blood on their face in a car crash, similar to that diana photo that the press printed a few years back.Ĭurious I decided to click on the link. In that time I have not once come across these photos. I've had access to the internet for nearly 10 years now. I mean, it's just awful and gruesome and I really don't want to see those kind of photos surface onto the 'net. Ya know, I have seen all of those photos in their glory and it's really too bad. Some of the text messages and emails sent by mysterious cyber bulllies said, “What a waste of a Porsche”, “Whoo-hoo! I’m still alive!”, and “that spoiled rich girl deserved it.” Within days of Nikki’s death, the Catsourases were deluged with emails and text messages accompanying the grisly accident scene photos of their once-living 18 year old daughter. The teen was immortalized in a sub-culture of morbidity and dubbed “Porsche Girl.” Two California Highway Patrol (CHP) dispatchers, 39 year old Thomas O’Donnell and 30 year old Aaron Reich, leaked pictures of the accident scene and Nikki’s horrific death onto the Internet. Some who posted Web site comments or sent e-mails taunted the family parents Lesli and Christos and three younger sisters. Soon, nine images of her nearly decapitated body began appearing on Web sites and in e-mails sent anonymously to her family. Nikki, 18, had taken her father’s Porsche without permission and, moving at speeds estimated at 100 mph, was killed when she lost control of the sports car and slammed into a concrete toll booth on the 241 toll road in Lake Forest. Instead, what he saw his daughter Nikki’s blood-covered face accompanied by the following caption: “Whoohoo Daddy! Hey Daddy, I’m still alive.” - from AC She was killed instantly, and, much to her family’s horror, nine grisly Nikki Catsouras car crash photos found their way onto the Internet and went viral.Ī few days after the accident, Nikki’s father, Christos, who is a real estate agent, opened an e-mail that he thought to be a property listing. The 18-year-old Orange County, California, resident had been driving her father’s black Porsche 911 Carrera at speeds of up to 100 miles per hour when she lost control of the vehicle and smashed into a concrete tollbooth. Nikki Catsouras was killed in a horrible car crash on Halloween day of 2006.

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