'Cyberbully' Mom Closer To Learning Her Fate

The jurors reportedly told U.S. District Judge George Wu they had reached agreement in the unspecified charges and "asked him if it was alright to be deadlocked on the fourth," according to The St. Louis Dispatch.

According to the paper, Wu said that the deadlock was OK and then sent them home. The jurors are reconvening Wednesday at 11 a.m. St. Louis time.

When the trial began last week, Thomas O'Brien, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, where the case is being tried, said that Drew "hatched a plan in order to prey on the psyche of a vulnerable 13-year-old," Megan Meier.

Meier, who had a history of depression, committed suicide in 2006 after Drew allegedly posed as a lovestruck teenage boy, Josh Evans, on MySpace and later e-mailed Meier, telling her "the world would be a better place without you." Consequently, a distraught Meier hung herself.

In May, the 49-year-old O'Fallon, Mo., mother was indicted and charged with one count of conspiracy and three counts of accessing protected computers without authorization to obtain information to allegedly inflict emotional distress on Meier. In addition to Drew, her daughter and another teen were reportedly involved in the harassment; all have denied their involvement and have not been charged.

After failing to indict Drew under Missouri laws, the case was brought to U.S. District Court in Los Angeles since it is the headquarters of Fox Entertainment, the parent company of MySpace.

Drew was indicted on one count of conspiracy and three violations of the antihacking Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The Drew case is the first of its kind to be tried under the act.

Drew's lawyer, H. Dean Steward, told the jury that Meier herself was abusive to Drew's daughter, and had started rumors about her.

"There are two sides to every story," said Steward.

Steward also told jurors that while "this was a deeply tragic case for everybody, most of all for Megan Meier," it should not be considered a homicide case but rather a "computer fraud and abuse case."