Dating App Killers: The Monsters of Online Dating

In the almost six years that I've been making these videos, I've discussed many strange Internet stories, crazy

online

happenings taking place from 4chan to Facebook, but there is one realm

online

that I have yet to touch that arguably contains some of the darkest stories of the internet,

dating

apps and

dating

websites, from Tinder to Bumble, to combine with plenty of online dating fish and grinders, and using these pseudo social media apps to find a romantic partner is has become ubiquitous in the modern era for better or worse, I'll let another YouTuber answer, but what is undeniable is that these apps have made it easier for deranged criminals to gain access to new victims, from a psychopathic killer on match.com to a woman young man who uses a lot of fish to facilitate a robbery and an inhumane serial killer who used a grinder to bait his victims these are the

monsters

of online dating.

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Our first story involves a 50-year-old real estate agent who used match.com to find a romantic partner. However, her foray into online dating would prove disastrous after she crossed paths with one of the most psychopathic men in Las Vegas, Nevada. This story begins in the summer of 2010 with Mary Kay Beckman, 50, a Las Vegas resident and real estate agent in At this point in Mary Kay's life, she had just gotten over the death of a long-time partner that occurred the previous year and was feeling emotionally ready to get back into the dating scene again, so after recommendations from her friends, she decides to give online dating a try. and creates an account on match.com, sets up her account, uploads some photos and waits patiently for a compatible match and about two months later in September, Mary Kay thought she had found that match when she stumbled upon Wade Mitchell Ridley's profile, 52 years old.

Wade Ridley claimed to work as a professional golf caddy and Mary Kay was a golfer and found the man physically attractive, she became attracted to the boy and after texting and texting with the man for several days she felt comfortable enough to continue. . a date with him on september 25 mary kay and wade met at a local italian restaurant and according to mary kay the date went smoothly she described wade's behavior as gentlemanly and respectful she thought there might be some potential here so she decided to have more dates with the guy the two would continue dating, have a variety of outings over the next week, even going golfing together with mary kay putting weight on her friends in the process, but just as mary kay found herself falling head over heels in love with the The guys' red flags began to reveal themselves as the dates progressed and the two spent more time together.

Mary Kay noticed that Mr. Ridley's behavior changed from confident to irritable and paranoid at times, as a Mary Kay real estate agent would receive numerous text alerts and calls from clients this sparked unreasonable suspicions on Wade Ridley's behalf as in several times he angrily demanded to see mary kay's phone accusing her of talking to other men on match.com and at one point mary kay claims she caught the man rummaging through her purse without permission in a frantic effort to check her text messages definitely a behavior unacceptable during second week of casual dating with man's unfounded insecurities and paranoia revealing themselves mary kay would decide to call off their dating relationship just 10 days after she started telling wade ridley that things were moving a little too fast for her liking , the man would not handle this rejection well in the wake of the breakup, wade ridley reportedly sent a barrage of angry text messages to mary kay accusing her of being a terrible, selfish person which the woman tried to rationalize with the man and explain to him her hesitation to move forward, but the more she entertained his messages, the more indignant he became.

Finally, following the advice of her friends, she decided to cut off all communications with the man and move on with her life, but this would not be the case. The last I would see of Wade Mitchell Ridley Unbeknownst to her, Wade Ridley had sinister plans for a final meeting when when the police arrested him he said I wasn't there to hurt her, I was there to kill her several months later on the 21st. January. 2011 Mary Kay Beckman returns home from dinner after arriving at her residence, she parks her vehicle and heads to the door of her house with the keys in her hand but a creak in the darkness stops her in her tracks.

It is at this moment that Wade Mitchell Ridley emerges from the shadows wielding a steak knife. A horrified Mary Kay began screaming at Ridley and then begins a disturbingly violent attack by picking up Mary Kay and stabbing her 10 times and stomping on her head until she stops moving believing Mary Kay was dead. Wade Ridley fled the scene. disappearing into the night a neighbor who heard mary kay's screams during the attack called the police after arriving, they found mary kay beaten and bloodied outside her house, unconscious but still clinging to her life. mary kay was taken to the hospital and remained in a coma for At the moment I'm looking at this photo here you are on a ventilator, so you are on a ventilator, you have been on respiratory rest, you have a ventriculostomy in your head, yes, there was a brain trauma so severe that they had to do it. come in and make it known to do the surgery to release the trauma in the blood while the apparent Match.com killer, Wade Mitchell Ridley, is still at large and with no witnesses to the crime at Mary Kay, in a coma, unable to testify and therefore Therefore, Wade Mitchell Ridley is not named a suspect in this brutal stabbing, at this point you would think that the man would probably flee or hide, but in reality Wade Ridley's work was not finished.

Mary Kay was simply Wade's first victim. objective completed on a kill list he had created, this list was full of romantic partners against whom he had vendettas for alleged wrongdoings. One name on this list was another woman Ridley had met on match.com, Ann Simmonson, and unfortunately this woman from North Phoenix was targeted as his next victim. On the night of February 10, Wade Ridley would enter Simmons' home and He would attack her using a machete and a butcher knife, killing the woman. Wade Ridley then stole Simonson's car keys and fled the scene in the woman's own vehicle eager to get it over with. however, his list of murders, unlike the attack on mary kay beckman, wade ridley did not get away with murder of ann simmonson, it turns out that due to previous confrontations with wade simmonson he had an active restraining order against the man who immediately led authorities to name him as a person of interest regarding van simmonsen's murder days later, on february 14, wade ridley was taken into police custody and, while interrogated, chillingly confessed to stabbing beckman and being the murderer of Anne. simonson regarding simonson's successful murder, he said: I just became enraged and regarding Beckman's knife attack, he was quoted as saying that he wanted her to pay for her attitude, whether it was death or incapacitation or whatever she was talking about. accuse Wade later. first-degree murder and attempted murder for their respective attacks on Match.com because Ridley's attacks took place in separate states, he was to be tried for these two crimes in separate court systems.

The attempted murder trial in Nevada was first held in September 2011. With Wade convicted and sentenced to serve 28 to 70 years in state prison, Wade Ridley was scheduled to go on trial for the murder of ann simmonson in arizona in late 2012, but that murder trial would never take place, as in may 2012 wade mitchell ridley took his own life in prison the man never really faced justice for his match.com attacks miraculously mary kay beckman would recover from the cruel attack she suffered at the hands of wade ridley and continues to practice as a real estate agent to this day an interesting footnote to This story is that in 2013 Mary Kay filed a civil lawsuit against Match .com seeking $10 million in damages with Beckman and his attorneys, essentially alleging that Match.com was responsible for allowing a deranged individual like Wade Ridley to run roughshod over their site.

But Beckman and her attorneys have struggled to find the company liable in this regard and I cannot find any reports indicating that any damages have been issued or that a settlement has been reached. I have to read a statement from match.com that claims to cite what happened. For Mary Kay Beckman it is horrible, but this lawsuit is absurd. The many millions of people who have found love on Match.com and other online dating sites know how rewarding it is and although that doesn't make what happened in this case any less horrible. This is about one sick and twisted individual with no criminal record, not an entire community of men and women looking to meet each other, while Match is generally considered one of the safest dating apps out there.

The case of Wade Mitchell Ridley demonstrates this. that even boomer dating sites can contain vicious

killers

. We begin tonight with the search for a murderer. A 27-year-old Auburndale father and well-known area boxer was found murdered in his apartment last night. Our next story is a disturbing example. showing what happens when malicious criminals take advantage of one's romantic desires, allegedly using the Many Fish dating app to lure a man into a deadly robbery. This story begins in 2016 with 27 year old single father, Adam Hillaire, Adam was an amateur boxer and mma fighter. of Auburndale, Florida, when Adam was not training for combat sports, he spent time raising his five-year-old daughter, Lejaya.

Adam was described as a hard-working man and a good father. Being a single father, one could imagine that Adam was looking for a new romantic relationship which brings us to the summer of 2016. In August, Adam began using the Many Fish dating app to search for potential single women in his area who might be interested in dating and that's when he hooked up with 18 years old. Old Haley Bustos, Adam and Hayley chatted for a while and felt some chemistry. Finally, the two agreed to go on a date and meet in person on August 18. Adam and Hailey were meeting at a local bowling alley and apparently the date went well.

After spending a lot of time at the bowling alley, Haley Bustos actually allowed Adam to take her home, then the two would spend some time there until late at night, when the date concluded, after which Adam dropped Hayley off at a apartment where she was. stay sometime after they dumped me, Haley reportedly texted Adam, I had a good time and I'd like to see you again. It's a message that implies that Hayley Bustos enjoyed her date with Adam and was possibly interested in moving forward romantically, but in reality this was probably far from the truth after she was dropped off at the apartment she enters, where three associates are waiting for her. return.

These men were 26-year-old Andre Warner, 26-year-old Joshua Ellington, and 31-year-old Gary Gray. Once inside, Haley Bustos allegedly begins a conversation with these individuals detailing several expensive items she noticed inside Adam Hillaire's home, including video game consoles. games, multiple televisions, jewelry, liquor and cash, and it is at this point that the four individuals allegedly hatch a plot to return to Adam's apartment and steal his possessions in The early morning hours of August 19, Haley Bustos along with Andre Warner, Josh Ellington and GaryGray, they get in the vehicle and head to Adam's apartment, a place Haley Bustos was very familiar with since she was there hours before his arrival, the team parks our vehicle.

Outside Adam's apartment, Haley Bustos and Josh Ellington stay in the car to keep watch while Andre Warner and Gary Gray proceed to break into Adam's house. Once inside, Adam Hillary is detained and held at gunpoint as they rob the house in fear. For his life, he begs the robbers, they begged them not to kill him, he explained to them that he had a five-year-old daughter to raise and that they could take whatever they wanted, simply begging them not to kill him, but unfortunately these callous criminals did not care. The man's circumstances mattered, and after robbing him blind, Andre Warner forced Adam to his knees and shot him in the back of the head execution-style, killing him in cold blood.

After the murderous looting, the men rushed out of Adam's apartment and piled into the vehicle along with Joshua Ellington and Haley Bustos. The group fled the scene with only a few hundred dollars of stolen property at the expense of Adam's life. Adan's belongings were sold for In the following days, the group with Haley Bustos allegedly received a 50% cut for their participation in the robbery, but these criminals would not get away with their brutal crime, as some time later the partner Adam's roommate would discover his body, notify the police, and a murder investigation would be opened. Initially, police had no suspects, but a break in the case came through Haley Bustos.

According to police, in the weeks following the crime, Bustos was involved in a separate testimony from a robbery witness that led to Haley was identified as a suspect and was subsequently arrested and linked. to the adam hillaire murder case, after some questioning, the detectives learned of his three accomplices and now the entire group was forced to face justice in a court of law, in which prosecutors allege that haley bustos participated in what is known as a honey trap essentially using the application of many fish as a means to get close to adam hillary and then explore his house with the intention of robbing him later with the help of warner ellington and grey, in fact, in The court Haley Bustos would testify that a friend had told her to download these dating apps because they could be used to attract men and exploit them for money and with that testimony in mind, it seems like we are dealing with a honey trap situation here, the first of this gang of many fish.

The man who murdered Adam execution-style in December 2021 was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison, with the jury recommending the death penalty facing Josh Ellington and Gary Gray. first degree murder charges their cases are still ongoing Haley Bustos, the seemingly innocent young woman who approached Adam for a lot of fish in 2016, was recently convicted and accepted a plea deal for snitching on her associates that prevented her from being Sentenced to life in prison in early 2022, Haley was sentenced to serve 25 years for her role in the criminal robbery conspiracy that led to the death of Adam Hillaire.

Haley Bustos was charged with conspiracy to commit armed robbery, robbery and theft. She has been sentenced to 25 years in prison, although it is heartwarming to see her. that the despicable individuals involved are facing serious sentencing for their crimes, this entire situation is heartbreaking to say the least, this conspiracy to murder many fish is a case that shows how easy it is for malicious criminals to take advantage of people who use romantic partners as bait. first appeared as an innocent young girl in a pile of fish turned out to be a deceitful conman with murderous associates, his despicable acts and petty greed left an innocent man dead and his five year old daughter fatherless, there's no point in having that in your heart. wanting to be violent killing someone that's just I don't understand it, I don't understand how people can want to be like poor men, young men, the kind of men you say you find attractive, all now dead, Stephen our end.

The story is undoubtedly the most disturbing example of a dating app used to facilitate criminal activity. It's a heartbreaking story that shows what happens when a serial killer uses gay shredder and escort sites to lure victims. The central figure in this gruesome story is a British man living in London called Steven Port. Born in February 1975, Stephen has been described by many throughout his life as a loner. People who knew him personally say that he was bullied while he was growing up and that he always had trouble adjusting when Stephen became an adult. He is said to have an immature and childish personality and a neighbor reported that he was seen playing with children's toys when he was an adult man on numerous occasions when he was in his early 20s.

Steven would come out as gay, which further excluded him from society, and he later moved out after getting into a stable relationship. Working as a chef for a catering company from that point on, Steven would live alone in an apartment located in the Barking suburb of London, a place that approximately eight years later would become the headquarters of a sexual deviant and serial killer. Let's move on. a bit. Now it's 2014 and Steven Port is 39 years old. As the man grew older, he apparently became obsessed with sex and compulsively used dating apps and escort services such as Grindr Sleepy Boy Fit Lads and Gaydar to obtain sexual encounters with young gay men in their 20s.

This time, Steven maintained an athletic physique in an effort to attract these men and sported a blonde toupee to appear younger than he actually was. On Steven's dating app profiles, he would completely fabricate information about himself to make him seem more interesting or exotic than he was. In reality, he went from presenting himself as an Oxford University graduate, to a special needs teacher, to a Royal Navy soldier, Steven invented many falsehoods in an effort to relate to young men, while what he was doing in These apps were actually very questionable, they weren't. illegal or something, but what we soon discover is that Steven Port had criminal fantasies that he was willing to act on on June 19, 2014.

Steven Port makes an emergency call to 999 and remains anonymous. He explains to dispatchers that while he was driving he had witnessed the young man drunk. He collapses on the street and suffers a seizure near the east block apartments. He sets off sometime after Steven's call. Emergency services arrive at the complex specified by the caller and find the body of the 23-year-old fashion student and escort Anthony Wallgate. What area does he see himself in? He collapsed or anesthesia or something always drunk the authorities would declare the young man dead shortly after arriving a bottle of the party drug ghb was found on his person and the cause of death was ruled as an overdose the police did not think there was any foul play here They felt this man was abusing the drug ghb, he overdosed and died from it.

They just didn't think anything was going on with this, however, what the authorities didn't realize at the time was that Anthony Wallgate was a companion of Steven Port. Had hired on an escort site called Sleepyboys.com, Steve had lured the young man to his flat with the promise of paying £800 for his services, only to spike his drink with a lethal amount of ghb, sexually assault his unconscious body and murder him. . of a drug overdose, Stephen then moved Anthony's body to the street and allegedly planted the drugs on him to fool the police, then gave emergency dispatch the false story that he randomly passed a man who was collapsing on the street. street and no one noticed, while the police did not.

I initially found Anthony Wallgate's death suspicious. A later tip provided by a friend of Wallgate would actually cast doubt on Steven Port. Here this friend explained that he knew Anthony Wallgate and knew that Wallgate was going to an apartment owned by a man named Steven Port. On the night of his death, Walgate had discussed this meeting with his friend before addressing the police, then pieced things together and realized that Steven Port was actually the individual who made that call to the emergency services, which they considered quite suspicious on June 26. Steven Port was arrested and charged. with perverting the course of justice by accusing him of essentially lying to them about what had happened, then the detectives question him, they want the real story of what happened that night, so Stephen makes up a story that is extremely charitable to himself.

Stephen would admit that he knew Anthony. and in fact invited him to his apartment on the night of his death, but Steven spends the narrative stating that he had actually left home at some point to go to work, leaving Wallgate at his apartment alone to then return from work early in the morning. morning to find that Anthony Wallgate had apparently taken ghb of his own volition and overdosed in the process. He frames this in a way that suggests that the only reason he lied about the circumstances in which he met Anthony Wallgate was because he feared the police would implicate him in a murder. that he didn't do it and well, the police would believe Steven's story considering Anthony Wallgate's death was just some kind of freak accident.

Steven would be released on bail and then have to go to a low-risk hearing for perverting the course of justice. We'll get to that hearing later. Steven had gotten away with a brutal trial and murder and once he realized how easy it was for him to get away with these heinous crimes, he continued to commit them, delving deeper and deeper into the criminality he would continue to use. . hookup apps and services to commit more trials and murders over the next year his next victim would be gabriel kavari stephen had reportedly hooked up with gabriel cavari using the dating app grinder and the two would talk online for some time and finally Gabriel moved into Steven Port's apartment in August 2014.

However, this move would prove to be a deadly mistake, as just five days after moving into Steven Port's apartment, Gabriel would become his next victim, as Steven drugged the man. young man with ghb, committed S.A and murdered him. This time, Steven would place the body of his victim. Gabriel Kavari's body was discovered some time later by a woman who was walking her dog. Police ruled the death an overdose and made no arrests in connection with the circumstances. On September 18, Stephen contacted a 21-year-old man. Chef named daniel whitworth on a pinwheel-like dating site, steven used the same devious tactics he had used on his previous victims with daniel and just two days after the men hooked up, daniel whitworth was found dead, his body was discovered by the same dog walker in the In the same place, in the same cemetery now, if you already thought Steven Port was part of this, learn what he did with Daniel Whitworth in an effort to keep the authorities out of his trace.

Stephen wrote a fake suicide note and planted it on Daniel's person earlier. Dumping his body in the cemetery, this fake note stated that Daniel's reason for supposedly committing suicide was because he had killed Gabriel Kavari and could not live with the pain. Surprisingly, this disgusting manipulation worked on the police and his death was not considered a homicide, Stephen. Port had gotten away with his disturbing third murder on a dating app, but in March 2015, Stephen had to take a short break in his crime spree as he was forced to appear in court on that old charge. of perverting the course of justice he received.

In 2014. In court, Stephen pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice in the Anthony Wallgate death case. He was sentenced to serve three months in jail and was released in June, several months later. it's frustrating to think that this killer was literally inside the court building, but no one knew what the hell was going on, so they're punishing him for some charge related to lying to the police. He was right under their noses the entire time, so after being released from prison months later in September 2015, Steven Port would go on strike. again drugging and killing another victim this individual was jack taylor, a 25 year old forklift operator, after committing his crime, stephen would return to dump jack's body in the same cemetery he had dumped the others in at this point, I'm sure you're banging your head against your keyboard in frustration, furious at the idea that the police can't find anything suspicious about three bodies found in the same place in a cemetery.

It is ridiculous that a murder case has not been opened at this point. The favorite place ofcemetery to throw their bodies. It did have a purpose though, as these urban London cemeteries were frequent gathering places for the homeless and drug addicts, it was not unusual to stumble upon a dead body in such a place, whether it was death from exposure or overdose, perhaps this narrative played a role in the apparent enforcement of the law. apathy regarding the deaths in the cemetery, but Jack Taylor's death would be different as it served to break the cycle of Steven Port's cruel murders.

Jack Taylor's family couldn't imagine the young man walking near a cemetery late at night. The circumstances surrounding his death did not make sense and they immediately suspected he had been murdered, so the family would pressure the authorities to scan the area for CCTV footage, perhaps a surveillance camera had caught him. Jack that night after doing some research on the CCTV footage. was found on the date of his death jack taylor was captured on surveillance camera footage meeting and walking with a tall blonde man the individual was immediately named as a person of interest regarding jack taylor's death and an appeal to It was made public asking people to help identify who it was.

This man would soon be identified as none other than Stephen Port and in October 2015 he was arrested on suspicion of murdering not only Jack Taylor but Gabriel Kavari, Daniel Whitworth and Anthony Wallgate thanks to the collaboration of the four victims, their families and witnesses who came forward, was implicated in all four murders, this mass murderer had finally been caught and would face justice for his repulsive crimes, while in court Stephen would plead innocent and maintain that he had nothing to do. to do with the murders while he was being interrogated, Port would adamantly deny putting bodies in any cemetery and denied giving anyone ghb.

The other three were found just across the road in the cemetery or right next to the cemetery in that area we've discussed. against a wall a short distance from your house again with high levels of ghb enough to kill them yes I don't know anything about them being free how they came to be Stephen could deny and lie all he wanted but the evidence discovered spoke for himself in the wake of his arrest, an investigation of his laptop found disturbing searches asking how to perform sa and other ghb-related searches. All four victims were also found to have traces of Steven's DNA and witness testimony would corroborate that Stephen Port did know. the four victims of him and all this combined with the fact that these dead bodies were found less than half a mile away from Stephen Port.

There was no denying that he was guilty in November 2016. Stephen was found guilty of all four murders and sentenced to life in prison. He is currently being held in Her Majesty's Prison in Belmarsh. a prison so infamous it is sometimes known as Britain's Guantanamo Bay, there is no better place for this heartless monster to spend the rest of his days following Steven Port's conviction, after all, much research has been done about police mishandling of these murder cases. Law enforcement really messed up all the time here, at one point 17 police officers were facing discipline for failing to interview key witnesses and for improper evidence collection techniques.

However, no action was ever taken. Some family members received monetary payments in civil claims court related to the case. Mishandled by the police, but no money will heal the scars created by the loss of loved ones, more than the other two stories discussed today, this one shows the damage a monster can cause when given the seemingly limitless pool of victims. which is the world of dating apps. Using these services, Steven Port was able to systematically abuse and kill young men with disturbing efficiency. Fortunately, with the help of the family police he finally woke up and put an end to the madness and with that those were the

monsters

of online dating, let me know what you say.

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