From a poisonous date to finding love with a serial killer, these six hair -raising cases show how unsuspecting Dating -App -users In the search for romance, they led to the claws of danger.
Dating – apps – from Tinder to Grindr – are the modern way for people to make contact with potential partners from the comfort of their own space.
Brace yourself for stories that fade the border between love and terror. Here Fox News Digital’s List of some recent cases where love went wrong.
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Grace Millane corresponded to Jesse Shane Kempson on Tinder while he backpack all over the world. (Istock)
Backpacker’s fatal tondon date
A New -Zeeland man Spends the rest of his life behind bars for the horrible murder of a British backpacker after the couple was linked to Tinder in 2018.
Jesse Shane Kempson was convicted of killing Grace Millane after a night of drinking in Auckland – only one day before she would have turned 22.
During the trial, prosecutors revealed that Kempson had strangled Millane during consensual sex in a hotel room and had taken photos of her naked body before puting her remains in a suitcase. After the discovery of the authorities of Millane in the nearby mountainous Waitakere Ranges, an autopsy revealed that injuries were “consistent with restraint”.
A year after Millane’s death, Kempson was found guilty of murder and convicted to life in prison.
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The case of the catfish
Two suspects were arrested in connection with the murder of missing Mercer Island -resident Curtis England, 74. (Washington State Patrol)
Curtis England, 74, of Mercer Island, Washington, Was entangled in an extensive catfish schedule on the LGBTQ+ Dating app Scruff.
He was missing on February 23, 2024 and his body was found on March 7, 2024. Authorities said England “had had a blunt strength trauma against his face” and had a stab wound in his neck.
Researchers soon heard that England was said to have been the target of online criminals who had met him on a dating website. Before his death, England was reportedly robbed of thousands of dollars, abducted and poisoned with Fentanyl.
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Philip J. Brewer, 32, and Christina Hardy, 47, are confronted with murder, kidnapping and identity theft.
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Trans ‘baby face’ killer in cool blood
Alex Ray Scott appears in the New York Criminal Court for conviction in Manhattan on Thursday 26 September 2024. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)
The trans “baby face” murderer has been convicted of two brutal murders on one New York City Seller and a land boss in Oklahoma.
Alex Ray Scott used a dating app to meet antique dealer Kenneth Savinksi in 2020, the New York Post reported. Scott, who started to switch from male to woman while he was in prison, Savinksi put dead in Savinski’s Upper East Side apartment using a decorative plate and kitchen knife.
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Scott also gave in to the murder of 2019 and the disintegration of Robin Skocdopole in Broken Arrow, OklahomaBefore the researchers are led to the location of the chopped head of Skocdopole.
Last year, a judge in Manhattan handed Scott’s prison sentence to life in prison for the murder of Savinski, only a few months after Scott was sentenced to 45 years behind bars for the death of Skocdopole.
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Trans teen killed and fall apart by date
Dashawn Dale Depree Watkins, 29, by Sharon, Pennsylvania, is in the prison of Mercer County after he was linked to the disintegration of 14-year-old Pauly Likens. (Prison of Mercer County)
A Pennsylvania -Man Sit behind bars after he reportedly lured the 14-year-old Pauly in the forest and the transgender teenager explained after he met her on Grindr, an LGBTQ+ dating app.
According to judicial documents submitted to the Mercer Police Department, Eikens was in a friend’s house before he met the 29-year-old Deshawn Watkins.
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The police have linked Watkins to the death of Pauly with the help of Video Supervision and Mobile Records. The cause of death of the 14-year-old was revealed as a sharp strength trauma, according to the criminal complaint, and the way of death was ruled a murder. Watkins was sued in the death of Likens.
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‘Shopping cart murderer’ convicted
Anthony Robinson has been convicted of using dating apps to kill two women and use a shopping cart to transport their lifeless bodies in 2021. (Harrisonburg Police Department/Fox 5 DC (WTTG))
A man from Virginia Dubbeds the “shopping cart Killer” has been found guilty of using social media dating -apps to kill two women in 2021.
Anthony Robinson was able to spend the rest of his life behind bars for the murders of Beth Redmon and Tonia Smith after a jury had convicted him last month. Researchers have also linked Robinson to two extra dead in Fairfax County and one in Washington, DC, but he still has to be tried.
Public Prosecutors revealed that Robinson, who was staying in the motel while working in a local chicken processing factory, killed Redmon in room 336 of his Motel Room in Alexandria, a shopping cart use. A month later, Robinson did the same with Smith.
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During the process, jury members were shown video images of Robinson Wheeling Redmon’s leaf -packaged body from the motel. Robinson then pushed the shopping cart to a wooded area behind the hotel, where the body of Redmon was later found, According to the police.
Robinson is planned to be convicted later this year, according to the court reports.
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To catch a murderer
Khalil Wheeler-Weaver, 25, arrives to the courtroom for his conviction in Newark, NJ, on Wednesday 6 October 2021. (AP Photo/Seth Little, Pool)
A New Jersey Man has been sentenced to 160 years in prison for using dating apps to lure three women to their death in 2016.
Khalil Wheeler-Weaver will spend the rest of his life behind bars for the murders on Joanee Brown, Sarah Butler and Robin West after Friends of Butler used social media To catch the murderer.
A fourth woman, Tiffany Taylor, survived an attack and gave identifiable information to law enforcement to help crack the matter.
During the 2021 test, prosecutors painted a picture of how Wheeler-Weaver used dating apps to meet the women for sex before they strangle them and dump their bodies in northern-new jersey. The attacks were just a few weeks apart, so that, according to public prosecutors, Wheeler-Weaver was given the opportunity to plan before he hit again.
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Authorities have credited Friends College Friends for their work to use the social media accounts of Butler, to make fake profiles and lure Wheeler-Weaver to a proposed meeting place where the police were waiting.
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