#internetdates

“Want to talk about torturing to death? I hope you all don’t think I'm strange or anything.”  Sharon Lopatka posted this ad as NanConcentric on alt.sex and in August 1996, began an online relationship with user Slowhands, real name Bobby Glass.   Two months and 870 pages of erotic emails later, Sharon set out to meet Bobby in Lenoir, N.C.  She left behind a note for her husband that read, “If my body is never retrieved, don’t worry. Know that I’m at peace.” A week later, her husband contacted police who were able to track Glass down after pouring through their correspondence.  Her body was found in a shallow grave 25 paces from his trailer, easily found because of the neighborhood dogs that took to the spot.  Glass claimed it was an accident during rope play.  “I don’t know how much I pulled the rope,” he told investigators, “I never wanted to kill her, but she ended up dead.”  Glass eventually plead guilty voluntary manslaughter in 2000 and was sentenced to four years and five months with an additional 26 months applied because of sexual images of children found on his computer.  Two weeks before being released from prison, Glass passed away in prison from a heart attack.