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4 ONLINE DATING APP Horror Stories Animated · Martin Animations

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  Speaker 1: This happened in September of 2022, and at the time
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  Speaker 1: I lived in Wisconsin. I was also a sophomore in
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  Speaker 1: high school. I met a 17-year-old named Austin at my
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  Speaker 1: summer job. He used to attend the same high school
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  Speaker 1: as me, but had been expelled for plagiarism. That's what
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  Speaker 1: he told me, and I didn't question it. You can
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  Speaker 1: be thrown out of a university for plagiarizing someone else's work,
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  Speaker 1: but high school would put you into detention at worst.
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  Speaker 1: leading me to believe that he was kicked out for
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  Speaker 1: a different reason. We became friendly, and he would pick
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  Speaker 1: me up and drop me off during the summer whenever
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  Speaker 1: we had work, because I didn't have a driver's license
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  Speaker 1: at the time. I also want to point out that
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  Speaker 1: it was pretty obvious that he had a crush on me,
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  Speaker 1: but I didn't feel the same way about him. To clarify,
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  Speaker 1: he insisted on giving me a ride, and I even
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  Speaker 1: offered to give him money to cover gas. I was
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  Speaker 1: not leading him on in any way Fast forward to
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  Speaker 1: the second or third week of school. Austin and I
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  Speaker 1: were driving home from a party that a mutual friend
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  Speaker 1: from school was throwing. Again, I needed a ride. When
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  Speaker 1: Austin pulled up to my house to drop me off,
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  Speaker 1: he finally popped the question. Hey, listen. I think you
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  Speaker 1: and I should go out sometime. Uh, I'm sorry, Austin.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't have those kind of feelings for you.
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  Speaker 1: I would prefer if we stayed friends. I could tell
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  Speaker 1: that my response really upset him. Looking back, I can
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  Speaker 1: see how he may have gotten the wrong idea. Please
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  Speaker 1: try not to judge me too harshly. The only excuse
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  Speaker 1: I have was that I was only a teenager back then.
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  Speaker 1: We waved goodbye to each other, and I went inside
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  Speaker 1: my house, took off my shoes, changed into my pajamas,
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  Speaker 1: brushed my teeth, and was ready to call it a night.
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  Speaker 1: Before I fell asleep, I got a text from a friend.
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  Speaker 1: What I read on screen is something I'll never forget.
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  Speaker 1: It was a paragraph-long message about how Austin had been
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  Speaker 1: secretly taking photos of me while I was sleeping in
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  Speaker 1: my bed, through my window. While that revelation was still
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  Speaker 1: sinking in, several photos of me sleeping came through. Apparently,
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  Speaker 1: Austin had been bragging about it at the party, and
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  Speaker 1: even showed off his collection, which found their way back
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  Speaker 1: to me. When you're hit with news like that, you
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  Speaker 1: feel cold. I knew that Austin had a thing for me,
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  Speaker 1: but I didn't think it would ever be something this twisted.
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  Speaker 1: On top of that, I was literally in the exact
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  Speaker 1: spot of where the photos were taken. The first thing
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  Speaker 1: I did was check my window and close my blinds.
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  Speaker 1: I then immediately sent him a text in all caps,
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  Speaker 1: NEVER CONTACT ME AGAIN. He seemed to know right away
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  Speaker 1: why I said that to him and quickly began to
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  Speaker 1: apologize and started playing the victim card. I felt like
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  Speaker 1: screaming after reading his pathetic texts and then told him,
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  Speaker 1: lose my number and never speak to me again. Then
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  Speaker 1: I blocked him. I wasn't feeling tired anymore and I
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  Speaker 1: got up to take some melatonin so I could fall asleep.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how long I was out for. but
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  Speaker 1: I woke up to the sound of my window shattering.
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  Speaker 1: I sat up in bed to see a dark figure
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  Speaker 1: stepping through. I quickly got out of bed and ran
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  Speaker 1: toward the door. The figure moved to catch me, but
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  Speaker 1: slipped on a piece of broken glass and fell to
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  Speaker 1: the floor. When I looked back, I could see that
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  Speaker 1: the intruder was in fact Austin, and that he also
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  Speaker 1: had a knife in his hand. I started to scream hysterically.
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  Speaker 1: My dad quickly came out into the hallway, asking me
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  Speaker 1: what the hell was going on. All I could do
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  Speaker 1: was point to my bedroom door. When he rushed inside,
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  Speaker 1: Austin was gone. After I told my father who it was,
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  Speaker 1: he immediately called the police, and they arrived ten minutes later,
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  Speaker 1: along with the paramedics. I didn't know it at first,
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  Speaker 1: but when I rushed out of my bedroom... My feet
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  Speaker 1: were cut on the broken glass. I had lost a
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  Speaker 1: lot of blood and was now feeling dizzy. After I
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  Speaker 1: told the police my side of the story, the paramedics
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  Speaker 1: ended up taking me to the hospital where I stayed overnight.
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  Speaker 1: It took the cops a while to track down Austin,
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  Speaker 1: but they eventually arrested him. During his sentencing, he addressed
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  Speaker 1: the court and admitted that he didn't know why he
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  Speaker 1: did it and also expressed that he was in love
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  Speaker 1: with me. Austin was convicted of multiple felony charges. The
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  Speaker 1: prosecutor was able to uncover more evidence that proved he
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  Speaker 1: intended to kill me, so the final verdict was breaking
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  Speaker 1: and entering and attempted first-degree murder. A year later, he
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  Speaker 1: successfully appealed the murder charge. I don't know all the details,
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  Speaker 1: but his mental health and lack of criminal record before
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  Speaker 1: that night played a major factor. Austin is currently serving
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  Speaker 1: a 16-year prison sentence. Although justice has been served, I
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  Speaker 1: still get very skittish whenever I meet new people, especially men.
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  Speaker 1: I know I sound crazy, but I still have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of PTSD over what happened that night. I hope
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  Speaker 1: Austin goes to hell for what he did.
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  Speaker 2: My wife passed away over 15 years ago caused by
• 5:46
  Speaker 2: a drunk driver. After mourning for several long years, I
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  Speaker 2: decided that I'd try online dating to get my dating
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  Speaker 2: life back up and running. This was in the early 2000s,
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  Speaker 2: so the world of online dating was just being introduced.
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  Speaker 2: I signed up for Match.com, filled out the usual forms,
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  Speaker 2: and chose some photos of myself I thought looked presentable.
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  Speaker 2: Within a day, I had matched with a woman with
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  Speaker 2: similar interests. She had claimed to be just a little
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  Speaker 2: younger than I was, lived in the same town, and
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  Speaker 2: while she wasn't a 10 out of 10, she wasn't ugly.
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  Speaker 2: Her name was Alexa, and we hit it off well.
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  Speaker 2: We started off as online friends, but as time went on,
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  Speaker 2: I started to see her something more than a friend.
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  Speaker 2: I decided I wanted to meet her, so I grew
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  Speaker 2: some balls and asked her out. Alexa, would you be
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  Speaker 2: interested in grabbing a drink at, say, the local bar?
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  Speaker 2: Alexa replied saying that she'd be happy to. She knew
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  Speaker 2: of my family's situation about the passing of my wife,
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  Speaker 2: so she was very patient and understanding with me. The
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  Speaker 2: local bar is this country-styled pub where everyone in town
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  Speaker 2: hangs out. Before social media, the bar is how you
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  Speaker 2: knew where everyone was at. It was sort of the
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  Speaker 2: spot that only locals knew about. Our town doesn't get
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  Speaker 2: many tourists, so everyone pretty much knew each other. The
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  Speaker 2: bar is also a major gossip spot. We're a small town,
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  Speaker 2: so there are no secrets. Even the state police stop there,
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  Speaker 2: as well as truckers and stuff like that. I made
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  Speaker 2: a few trucker friends here and there, and pretty much
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  Speaker 2: got along with everyone. Alexa and I agreed to meet
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  Speaker 2: the next day, so I had to make sure I
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  Speaker 2: was ready for it. I haven't been on a first
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  Speaker 2: date in years, so I was understandably nervous as hell.
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  Speaker 2: I got cleaned up, made sure I had enough money,
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  Speaker 2: car was cleaned, and the usual pre-date preparations. The bar
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  Speaker 2: is only about five minutes from my house, so I
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  Speaker 2: get there a few minutes early to get situated. When
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  Speaker 2: I walk in and look around, Alexa was nowhere to
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  Speaker 2: be seen. I assumed she must have been running late,
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  Speaker 2: so I took that chance to find a table and
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  Speaker 2: text her saying that I was here. Everyone in the
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  Speaker 2: bar began to stare and make comments on how I
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  Speaker 2: was dressed. The server Gabriella was a 19-year-old college student
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  Speaker 2: who is also the owner's daughter. Remember when I said
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  Speaker 2: the bar is a gossip spot? If you want to
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  Speaker 2: know what's going on, you ask Gabby. When times were
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  Speaker 2: slow at the bar, Gabby would go online and dig
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  Speaker 2: up some research about criminals and anything weird that goes on.
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  Speaker 2: They even have a bulletin board with pictures of all
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  Speaker 2: criminals and local pedophiles. Like I said, small town, no secrets.
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  Speaker 2: Gabby comes over to me commenting about the way I
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  Speaker 2: was dressed and asked if I was on a hot date.
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  Speaker 2: When I told her that I was, she had asked
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  Speaker 2: if she could see a picture of my lady friend
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  Speaker 2: and when I showed her, she got this strange look
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  Speaker 2: on her face. She muttered a nice comment and left
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  Speaker 2: to go get my drink. This was unusual for Gabby
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  Speaker 2: because she chats everyone's ears off. So much that she
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  Speaker 2: sometimes forgets to give people their orders. I got a
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  Speaker 2: message from Alexa saying she was 10 minutes away and
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  Speaker 2: that she was caught in traffic. It was then when
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  Speaker 2: I noticed Gabby talking to other patrons, only for all
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  Speaker 2: of them to constantly glance over to me with this
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  Speaker 2: look I can't even explain. As I looked around the bar,
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  Speaker 2: I noticed that everyone would look away when I made
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  Speaker 2: eye contact with them. I got another text from Alexa
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  Speaker 2: saying that she was five minutes away. Gabby comes back
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  Speaker 2: with my drink and asks if she could see the
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  Speaker 2: picture of Alexa again. I gladly showed her. After seeing
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  Speaker 2: it again, she asks me, You know who that is,
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  Speaker 2: don't you? Um, it's Alexa, I reply. um that's a
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  Speaker 2: guy dressed up as a woman this guy likes to
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  Speaker 2: stalk people and lure them into taking people's money he
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  Speaker 2: got out of jail six months ago for good behavior
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  Speaker 2: I blurted out a what the hell as she said
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  Speaker 2: this As it turns out, this guy enjoyed seeking pleasure
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  Speaker 2: of preying upon lonely men, just like me. He was
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  Speaker 2: the black sheep from a very influential family that had
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  Speaker 2: relatives in law enforcement, local papers, county councils, the judicial system,
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  Speaker 2: and even school board positions. Alexa was charged with both
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  Speaker 2: stalking men and women on dating sites and would sometimes
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  Speaker 2: even go into their homes only to steal all of
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  Speaker 2: their valuables. Apparently, he even broke into the victims' homes
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  Speaker 2: before targeting them. From what Gabby had told me, he
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  Speaker 2: was in jail for two years and was released but
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  Speaker 2: given a deal from the county attorney's office with the
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  Speaker 2: following conditions. 1. Not to use dating sites. 2. Mandated
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  Speaker 2: management counseling to control his impulse. 3. To wear a
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  Speaker 2: monitoring device so he couldn't go back to his victims' homes. 4.
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  Speaker 2: Never to contact any of the victims. 5. He would
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  Speaker 2: be on probation for four years. Gabby had told me
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  Speaker 2: that she had called the police as this guy wasn't
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be on any dating sites. The police also
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  Speaker 2: requested for me to act calm and natural until they
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  Speaker 2: got there. I thought to myself, act calm? How the
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  Speaker 2: hell am I supposed to remain calm when this guy
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  Speaker 2: is dressed up like and sounds like a woman was
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  Speaker 2: hitting on me? I was beyond furious. I couldn't even
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  Speaker 2: find the right words to use to describe what I
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  Speaker 2: was feeling. However, I wanted to keep the peace so
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  Speaker 2: I tried to pull myself together not to erupt into
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  Speaker 2: a raging madman Right then, I received another text from
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  Speaker 2: her saying she was parking and it was at that
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  Speaker 2: point where I wanted to go outside and kill the bastard.
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  Speaker 2: Gabby had told me that one of the truckers would
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  Speaker 2: protect me if things went south. A few seconds later,
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  Speaker 2: the door to the bar opened and the woman from Match.com appeared.
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  Speaker 2: A dead silence came over the bar. I waved half-heartedly
• 12:28
  Speaker 2: while trying to keep my composure so I wouldn't find
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  Speaker 2: myself breaking his jaw. Gabby very formal and politely walks
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  Speaker 2: up to Alexa asking if she needed a table. Alexa replies,
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  Speaker 2: oh no, there's my date, over there. Just as that
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  Speaker 2: was said, two county sheriff cars pull in and the
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  Speaker 2: Alexa imposter flees running out the door. He didn't get
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  Speaker 2: very far though. One of the officers got out and
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  Speaker 2: body slammed him to the ground. All the while, Alexa
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  Speaker 2: tried convincing the police that he was in fact a
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  Speaker 2: woman by faking the female voice I was all too
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  Speaker 2: familiar with. He was arrested and put in jail much
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  Speaker 2: longer than before. From that day forward, I swore to
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  Speaker 2: myself that I would never go on another online dating
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  Speaker 2: site again. I'm a 20 year old college student and
• 13:27
  Speaker 2: this recently happened to me a few months ago. My
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  Speaker 2: dating life hasn't always been the best but I've been
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  Speaker 2: with a few girls here and there. This was primarily
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  Speaker 2: because I didn't have the time to date as my
• 13:40
  Speaker 2: life was basically revolving around school. I'm currently majoring in
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  Speaker 2: engineering so you could imagine how much school work I
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: was swamped with. Anyway, I had been at my friend's
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  Speaker 2: dorm one night who had just introduced me to his
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: new girlfriend. They had apparently met over a dating site
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  Speaker 2: called Plenty of Fish, an app I've never heard of.
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  Speaker 2: She was nice, but as the night progressed, I started
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  Speaker 2: to become jealous of my friend's relationship. My desire to
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: meet someone grew stronger than ever, and so I decided
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  Speaker 2: to try out online dating myself. I've never done online
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  Speaker 2: dating before, so all of it was new to me.
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  Speaker 2: My friend had recommended Plenty of Fish, as it was
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  Speaker 2: apparently the most reliable site out there Just gotta say,
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  Speaker 2: paying $ 30 for a membership on a dating site is outrageous.
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  Speaker 2: I paid the fee and began creating my profile with
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  Speaker 2: info and pictures of me. The first week on the app,
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  Speaker 2: I matched with absolutely no one. The very few women
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  Speaker 2: I did match with either didn't bother messaging me back
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  Speaker 2: or were bots. This was one of the big reasons
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  Speaker 2: as to why I was not a fan of online dating.
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  Speaker 2: Reliable my ass. After a few days of getting basically
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  Speaker 2: zero attention, I sort of stayed off the app for
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  Speaker 2: a good while and continued with my normal life. About
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  Speaker 2: two weeks later, I'm at the movies with my friends
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  Speaker 2: when I get a notification from Plenty of Fish. I
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  Speaker 2: open the message to see that I had matched with
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  Speaker 2: this really cute girl who was just a bit younger
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  Speaker 2: than I was. She attended the same university as me
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  Speaker 2: and didn't live too far. She had messaged me wanting
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  Speaker 2: to know more about me and referred to me as
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  Speaker 2: a hunk. Hunk is slang for basically saying someone is
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  Speaker 2: attractive or good looking. Being the ecstatic guy I was,
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  Speaker 2: I gladly reply and tell her more about myself. My
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  Speaker 2: friends make a few comments about her, telling me how
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  Speaker 2: I was lucky and how I'd get laid. The usual
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  Speaker 2: comments close friends would sort of make. The person I
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  Speaker 2: had matched with was named Samantha and we really seemed
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  Speaker 2: to connect. She was a gamer like myself and we
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  Speaker 2: both shared similar interests which is what made us connect
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  Speaker 2: even more. We chatted through the app for a good
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  Speaker 2: few days and eventually led to SMS. Nothing was out
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  Speaker 2: of the ordinary, just casual talk and the iMessage games
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  Speaker 2: we played. However, little did I know that would all
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  Speaker 2: change in just one night when Samantha started being sexual
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  Speaker 2: with me. Of course, being the hormone-filled young adult I was,
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  Speaker 2: I decided to play along. We played it safe by
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  Speaker 2: sending photos of us removing our clothing until I eventually
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  Speaker 2: sent her a nude. Nothing really happened the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the night, but I noticed that she wasn't texting me
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  Speaker 2: the next day at all. This was unusual for her,
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  Speaker 2: as she's normally very responsive and fast. At one point,
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: I was sitting at my desk studying for my midterm
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  Speaker 2: when I receive a call from her. She had never
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  Speaker 2: called me before, so I was kinda surprised, but picked
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  Speaker 2: up and greeted her. There was a long pause before
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  Speaker 2: I hear someone on the other end. However, on the
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  Speaker 2: other end was not Samantha at all. The voice on
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  Speaker 2: the other end was a man's voice saying, What are
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  Speaker 2: pictures of you doing on my 15-year-old daughter's phone? I
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  Speaker 2: felt my blood run cold and hung up the call
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  Speaker 2: immediately and deleted everything dating related from my phone. I
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  Speaker 2: was in a panic as I knew hanging up was
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  Speaker 2: the wrong move. Did this girl lie about her age?
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  Speaker 2: Was I a victim of some sort of trick? Then,
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden, a text from her contact pops
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  Speaker 2: up that read, You better call me back or you'll
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  Speaker 2: be in a prison cell within an hour. All I
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  Speaker 2: can remember was explaining to the supposed father that I
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  Speaker 2: didn't know she was underage and that her profile said
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  Speaker 2: she was 19. All I got in response, though, was
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  Speaker 2: how I was a monster, a pedophile, and how he
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  Speaker 2: was going to lock me up. For a second, I
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  Speaker 2: really thought about my life being over. All my hard
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: work and education being ruined because of this. He then
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  Speaker 2: presented me with a proposal. If I would send this
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  Speaker 2: man $ 1, 000 for the deactivation of his daughter's phone, he
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  Speaker 2: won't call the cops. At the time, my bank account
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: had about $ 700 in savings. It was my savings for
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: a car, but I was prepared to give it to
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  Speaker 2: him if that meant I didn't have to be put
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: behind bars. I had asked if I could call my
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  Speaker 2: family to help pay the remaining $ 300, and he said yes.
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  Speaker 2: After a whole ordeal with my parents, they sent me
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the money, but that my dad wanted
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  Speaker 2: to talk to this man. I'd say my dad sent
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  Speaker 2: over a hundred messages to this man, threatening him in
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  Speaker 2: the worst way possible. All we got in response was
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  Speaker 2: that he hoped I would enjoy prison. My parents said
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  Speaker 2: I didn't have to worry about it as this was
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  Speaker 2: all likely a scam, an attempt to extort me because
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: I was so young and naive. For the next couple weeks,
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  Speaker 2: I was paranoid that a police officer would come to
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  Speaker 2: my door with a pair of handcuffs with my name
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  Speaker 2: on them. However, no one ever came. The number I
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  Speaker 2: had saved for this guy ended up being disconnected after
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  Speaker 2: a week. Till this day, I still wonder if it
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  Speaker 2: really was just a ploy. Even if it was, it
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  Speaker 2: was the scariest thing that's ever happened to me. And
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: if it wasn't, I guess it technically means that I'm guilty,
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  Speaker 2: even though I really never knew her real age. My
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  Speaker 2: parents are convinced that it was indeed a scam. I
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  Speaker 2: hope that you'll use my story as a sort of
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  Speaker 2: lesson to be learned about scams like this and the
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  Speaker 2: dangers of online dating. Be careful out there, folks. For
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: the past year, I've been on a lot of online
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: dating apps non-stop. I had a recently broke up with
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  Speaker 2: my boyfriend due to his toxic behavior and knew I
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  Speaker 2: had to find someone else who would benefit me in life.
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  Speaker 2: Being a girl who had already graduated college, it was
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  Speaker 2: hard to find new people, so I turned to online dating.
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  Speaker 2: Sites like Tinder, OkCupid, Bumble, etc. One day, I had
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: matched with a guy named Zach on Tinder who I
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: enjoyed talking to really well. Based on his profile picture,
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: he seemed cute and confident about his career and hobbies.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: We had messaged back and forth, and at one point
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: he wanted to meet me. I've never been involved with
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: the dating life since college, so I was very nervous.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: I told him that he could come over to my
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: house as my parents were out of town and we
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: could have the place to ourselves. He agreed with that
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: idea and made plans for him to come over during
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: the weekend. When the day finally came to meet Zach,
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: I cleaned the house, dressed nice, and even made some
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: fresh brownies for us. Fast forward to 3pm, I hear
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: a knock at the door and go over to open it.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Standing at the front of the door was a man
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: I had never seen before greeting me. However, it was
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: not at all Zach and he didn't even look like him.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: He wore torn and dirty clothing and looked like he
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: hadn't been to the gym in years. When I questioned
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: him about why he lied about the photos, he said
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: that that was actually pictures of his nephew. At this
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: point I'm immediately creeped out but I didn't want to
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: be rude and kick him out. We both agreed to
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: watch a movie on the couch and I made sure
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: to stay far away from him as possible. During the
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: movie I felt his eyes stare at me in this
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: weird way I didn't understand. It was as if he
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: were staring through my soul. It came to a point
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: where I made up a lie saying that my parents
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: were coming home and that he had to leave. Thankfully
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: he respected this and got up to leave Before he did,
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: he took out a pocket knife and said something that
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: made my skin crawl. I could have killed you today, Ashley.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: He jokingly chuckled as he made his way out of
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: my house and into his old pickup truck. I never
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: heard from Zach again, but this is one of the
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: creepiest moments I've ever experienced. I'm now more aware of
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: online dating, and I'll just stick to meeting people in
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: real life.