One of the mysteries following the suicide of 13-year-old Megan Meier seems to have been solved. In the weeks after the public became aware of the Dardenne Prairie teen’s death – she hanged herself after being tormented by a fictional MySpace boy – someone started a controversial blog called Megan Had it Coming.

No one took credit for the blog, though its author claimed to be Lori Drew, the neighbor who is accused of helping to create and use the fake MySpace account to torment Meier. Drew denied it was her creation.

It turns out the blog was created by someone with no apparent local ties. In a recent New York Times magazine story, author Mattathias Schwartz looked into the bizarre world of trolls – those folks who delight in wreaking havoc in the online world.

One of the trolls interviewed for the story, Jason Fortuny, takes credit for the Megan blog:

In fact, Megan Had It Coming was another Jason Fortuny experiment. He, not Lori Drew, Fortuny told me, was the blog’s author. After watching him log onto the site and add a post, I believed him. The blog was intended, he says, to question the public’s hunger for remorse and to challenge the enforceability of cyberharassment laws like the one passed by Megan’s town after her death. Fortuny concluded that they were unenforceable. The county sheriff’s department announced it was investigating the identity of the fake Lori Drew, but it never found Fortuny, who is not especially worried about coming out now. “What’s he going to sue me for?” he asked. “Leading on confused people? Why don’t people fact-check who this stuff is coming from? Why do they assume it’s true?”

You can see a little more of Fortuny’s world on his blog, which he calls: “Getting away with everything you can only dream of.”