Nadia Kajouji wanted her death to look like an accident.

The 18-year-old Carleton University student planned to bring her skates to the frozen Rideau Canal then jump through a break in the ice.

"If drowning doesn't get me, hopefully the hypothermia will," she confessed to "cami," an online pal also planning a suicide, just days before her death last March.

"I'm planning to attempt this Sunday."

Cami didn't think it was a good idea. Nadia's friend encouraged her to hang herself in front of a webcam.

"I can help you with it," cami promised. "Proper positioning of the rope is very important."

That chilling exchange is included in dozens of pages of online conversations spread out on Mohamed Kajouji's living room table in Brampton. Nadia's father got the exchanges from Ottawa police. His eyes crest with tears as he reads them.

"He's a monster," he says of cami.

On Thursday night, Minnesota police announced they were investigating a local 46-year-old nurse named William Francis Melchert-Dinkel in connection with Nadia's suicide. Officers want to know if he is "cami."

After seizing the man's home computer, investigators from the state's Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force contacted Ottawa police in mid-January.

St. Paul police said in a statement Thursday night that they confirmed that Nadia "had been conversing with Melchert-Dinkel online just prior to her disappearance."

Peter Panos, a St. Paul police spokesperson, said Melchert-Dinkel was "very active on the Internet.

"We are looking into every single person he ever contacted that we can get the records for."

Police expect to lay charges in a few weeks, Panos said Thursday night.

In Minnesota, assisting a suicide is punishable by up to 15 years in prison and a fine of up to $30,000.

Nadia repeatedly thanked her new friend cami for listening and for the advice, but she had decided she was going to jump.

"Well, that is okay, but most people puss out before doing that," cami wrote back, adding that hanging "is so fast and certain. I can't think of no other way for me.

"That is why I'm so into that. I don't want to feel nothing."

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Cami wrote that all Nadia needed to do was purchase 3.5 metres of nylon rope, about 3 cm thick, then find somewhere in the apartment to hang from.

"I can help you with the (Web) cam when you need to."

On Feb. 5, Melchert-Dinkel's nursing licence was temporarily suspended by the Minnesota Board of Nursing.

No reasons were disclosed. Attached to the decision was a lengthy history of disciplinary action previously taken against the man, who currently lives in southern Minnesota.

In 1998, the board imposed a series of conditions against Melchert-Dinkel's licence. "Conditions are like probation," explained Rene Cronquist, the board's assistant director for practice and policy.

While employed as a practical nurse at Ebenezer Luther Hall in Minneapolis, in 1994, Melchert-Dinkel was verbally warned for failing to report a medication error.

A month later, he was again disciplined after he "failed to document (a patient's) condition or update the physician as instructed." The resident's condition continued to decline during the shift and the resident died en route to hospital.

The report documents a series of instances in 1997, while Melchert-Dinkel was working as a nurse at Pleasant Manor, where a patient received bruises after being restrained. The Commissioner of Health concluded he had "abused two different residents on two different occasions."

Conditions were put on his licence, including increased supervision, a $150 fine, and continuing education sessions. In 2003, the conditions of his licence were removed.

Yesterday, several mental health forums online issued warnings against "cami" who, posters indicated, may have gone by other names, including Falcon Girl.

In May 2008, the Sunday Mercury newspaper in Birmingham, England, ran a story about a mother of two who nearly fell victim to an Internet predator who attempted to coax the 35-year-old into a suicide pact. He wanted to watch her die online.

"I can just show you the proper knot/noose, positioning. That is all you need to know," Falcon Girl wrote.