A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich

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By msmashAug 29, 2025, 10:00 am193 pts
A 56-year-old tech industry veteran killed his mother and himself in Old Greenwich, Connecticut on August 5 after months of interactions with ChatGPT that encouraged his paranoid delusions. Greenwich police discovered Stein-Erik Soelberg and his 83-year-old mother Suzanne Eberson Adams dead in their home.…

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