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About William Francis Melchert-Dinkel
- William Francis Melchert-Dinkel (born July 20, 1962) is an American former licensed practical nurse (LPN).
- In 2011, he was found guilty of encouraging people to die by suicide.
- He allegedly told those contemplating suicide what methods worked best, that it was a decent choice to take your own life, that they would be better off in heaven, and/or falsely entered into suicide pacts with them.
- He is a married father of two.Melchert-Dinkel was originally convicted of two counts of assisting suicide for encouraging the July 27, 2005 suicide of 32-year-old Mark Drybrough, a British IT technician, and the March 9, 2008 suicide of 18-year-old Nadia Kajouji, a student at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada via Internet chat rooms.
- Those convictions were later overturned by the Minnesota Supreme Court when it found that part of the state law used to convict him was unconstitutional.
- On remand, Melchert-Dinkel was convicted on one count of assisting suicide, and one count of attempted assisting suicide. He served 178 days in jail and will be on probation for ten years.
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