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FLORENCE, Ky. – Audree Heine loved to sing Taylor Swift songs. She had a celebrity crush on Eminem. She wore a bright pink cowgirl hat to her 13th birthday party last year.
A week after she turned 13 in December, she died by suicide. That’s when her mom, Jaimee Seitz, learned Audree was also part of an online subculture – one that idolizes the two black-trench-coat-wearing teens who killed 13 people at Columbine High School in 1999…