00:01Sydney Loof. On November 15th, 2017, Sydney Loof, a 24-year-old store clerk in Lincoln,
00:08Nebraska, posted a selfie on Snapchat. The caption was simple, upbeat, and tragically
00:14ironic. Ready for my date? She was heading out for a second date with a woman she'd met
00:20on Tinder named Audrey. A second date. It's supposed to be the one where you feel a little
00:25safer, a little more comfortable. But Sydney's date wasn't with Audrey. It was with Bailey
00:31Boswell and her much older boyfriend, Aubrey Trail. And they weren't looking for a relationship.
00:37They were looking for a victim. When Sydney didn't show up for work the next day, she
00:43was reported missing. The search quickly led investigators to Boswell and Trail, who posted
00:48a series of bizarre, rambling videos on Facebook proclaiming their innocence. They claimed they'd
00:54drop Sydney off at a friend's house and that she was fine. But it was all a lie. They had
01:00been planning this for weeks. Court records later showed they had bought tools to kill
01:05and dismember someone before they even met Sydney. They had selected her, lured her in
01:10with a fake profile, and then, on that second date, they killed her. Her body was found three
01:17weeks later, scattered in garbage bags along remote gravel roads in rural Nebraska. She had
01:23been strangled, and then her body was cut into 14 pieces. The case that followed was a media
01:29circus. Trail dramatically slashed his own throat in the courtroom, shouting,
01:34Bailey is innocent and I curse you all. He survived. He was later convicted and sentenced
01:41to death. Boswell, the woman who had posed as Audrey on Tinder, became the first woman to
01:47be sentenced to death in Nebraska. The case was a horrifying look into the dark side of
01:53online dating, a world where the friendly face on the other side of the screen might
01:58not be who they say they are, a world where a simple, hopeful selfie can become the last
02:03picture you ever take. Grace Mullane
02:07Grace Mullane was on the trip of a lifetime. A 21-year-old from the UK, she was backpacking
02:13through New Zealand after finishing university. On December 1, 2018, the eve of her 22nd birthday,
02:21she was in Auckland and decided to go on a Tinder date. She matched with a man, and CCTV footage
02:27shows them having a relaxed, affectionate evening, bar hopping and kissing in elevators before heading
02:32back to his hotel room. She was never seen alive again. The man she met, whose name was later revealed
02:40to be Jessie Kempson, strangled her to death in his apartment. And what he did next is what turns this
02:46from a tragedy into a truly monstrous story. He didn't panic. He didn't call for help. Instead,
02:55he took explicit photos of her dead body and then watched pornography. He then calmly went about the
03:03business of covering up his crime. He used his phone to search for Hottest Fire and Waitakere Ranges,
03:12a nearby area of dense forest. He bought a large suitcase and cleaning supplies. He folded Grace's
03:19body into the suitcase, rented a car, and drove to the Waitakere Ranges, where he buried her in a
03:26shallow grave. And then, while her body lay hidden in the woods, he went on another Tinder date.
03:34It's a level of cold, calculated evil that's hard to comprehend. He was eventually caught, of course.
03:42Police traced Grace's last movements and found him. He tried to use the rough-sex-gone-wrong
03:49defense, but the jury didn't buy it. He was convicted of murder. The case sparked a worldwide
03:55conversation about the dangers of online dating and the insidious nature of the rough-sex defense.
04:02But more than that, it was a story about a bright, adventurous young woman who went out for a birthday
04:08drink and never came home. A woman who was murdered by a man who saw her not as a person,
04:14but as a
04:15disposable object. Luke Limbrick. This story is a little different. It's not about a date that ended
04:24in immediate violence. It's about how a single, careless conversation on a Tinder date can plant
04:31a seed that months later blossoms into a fatal home invasion. Luke Limbrick was a 29-year-old man
04:39from Western Sydney, Australia. He lived with and cared for his terminally ill mother. And, as he
04:45casually mentioned to a woman named Lisa Price on a Tinder date, he kept a large amount of cash at
04:51home.
04:52That one piece of information, shared in a moment of casual conversation, would be his death sentence.
04:59Price told her criminal associates about the cash. And in August 2019, months after the date,
05:05a group of them broke into Luke's home to rob him. Luke fought back. He grabbed a knife to defend
05:12himself and his sick mother. But he was outnumbered. During the struggle, he was stabbed multiple times.
05:18He collapsed and died in his mother's arms. The robbers fled, leaving a scene of unimaginable trauma.
05:26A son dead, a sick mother injured and heartbroken. The police investigation eventually led them back to
05:32Lisa Price and the Tinder date that it started at all. The case was prosecuted as a joint criminal
05:38enterprise, a robbery that had turned into a murder. In 2024, all of them, Price and the men who had
05:46carried out the home invasion, were convicted of either murder or manslaughter. It's a chilling
05:52reminder that the dangers of online dating aren't always immediate. It's not always about the person
05:57you're meeting. Sometimes it's about the information you share. A careless word, a moment of misplaced
06:04trust, can have consequences that you can't even imagine. For Luke Limbrick, a single sentence on a
06:11Tinder date months earlier led to his death. Samantha Stewart. Sometimes, a Tinder date isn't just a bad date.
06:21It's a hunt. In July 2018, Samantha Stewart, a 29-year-old nurse from Queens, New York, matched with a
06:30man named
06:30Daniel Drayton on Tinder. What she didn't know was that Drayton was a serial predator, a man who used
06:38dating apps to find his victims. And she was his next target. He went to her home for a date.
06:46Days later,
06:47when she didn't show up for work, her family called for a welfare check. Police found her dead in her
06:53bedroom. She had been beaten, raped, and strangled. The apartment showed signs of a violent struggle.
07:01Drayton, meanwhile, was gone. He had fled New York, using Samantha's credit card and carrying her
07:08driver's license. But this wasn't his first time. Drayton had been arrested just weeks earlier for
07:14choking another woman he had met on Tinder. But due to a clerical error, he had been released.
07:20A simple mistake, a piece of paperwork that fell through the cracks, had allowed a violent predator
07:27to walk free. And now, Samantha Stewart was dead. A fugitive task force tracked Drayton across the
07:35country to a hotel in North Hollywood, California. And when they found him, he was with another woman,
07:41holding her captive. He was charged with Samantha's rape and murder, as well as the kidnapping and rape
07:48of the woman in California. Police described him as a man who used Tinder as a hunting ground. A man
07:55who had slipped through the cracks of the justice system and left a trail of terror in his wake.
08:02Samantha's death was a horrifying example of how the systems that are supposed to protect us
08:06can fail. A story about a woman who invited a man into her home, a man she thought she knew,
08:13and paid for it with her life. Ingrid Lynn
08:19Ingrid Lynn was a 40-year-old nurse and a mother of three from Renton, Washington.
08:23She was divorced and cautiously reentering the dating world. In April 2016, she met a man named
08:30John Robert Charlton on a dating app. They decided to go to a Seattle Mariners baseball game for their
08:36first date. She told friends she was excited but a little nervous. She left her kids with their father
08:43and went to the game. She never came home. The next morning, a homeowner in Seattle found a human head,
08:51an arm, and a leg wrapped in plastic bags in his recycling bin. Police quickly identified the
08:57remains as belonging to Ingrid Lynn. The investigation led them to her home and to John Charlton.
09:04What they found there was a scene of unimaginable horror. Ingrid had been murdered in her home and
09:11then dismembered in her bathtub with a pruning saw. Her body parts had then been transported and dumped
09:16in recycling bins around the city. Charlton was arrested. He gave inconsistent stories, claiming he was
09:24too drunk to remember what had happened. He eventually pleaded guilty to first-degree murder
09:29and was sentenced to a lengthy prison term. The case sent a shockwave through the Seattle community.
09:35A story about a mother of three, a nurse, who went on a date to a baseball game and ended
09:41up in pieces
09:41in a recycling bin. It's a story that highlights the ultimate vulnerability of inviting a stranger into
09:48your life, into your home. A story about the monster that can be hiding behind a friendly profile picture.
09:55A story about a woman who was just trying to find a little happiness, a little connection,
10:00and instead found a brutal and senseless end. A story that is, in every sense of the word,
10:07a true horror, a modern-day nightmare.
10:26I will lift up my hair
10:29and place a white flag in the ground and place a white flag in the ground.
10:33We'll dig our graves by the bedside if we don't lay these weapons down.
10:44We don't have to go and break our hearts.
10:49We don't have to go and fall apart
10:55I want you and only you
10:59I'll take a long shot
11:02Cause I will forever
11:04On the words and words I'll make my room
11:09That you're
11:11That you're
11:11You're
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