Michigan Grindr slaying

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It’s that distinctive ping from your phone – a message that is new among the numerous dating apps available.

It is where in fact the adventure starts.

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Can there be the vow of love? Does their bio tantalise? Are the ones photos recent and real?

Dating has constantly carried risk that is inherent however in the present day times of electronic relationship, perhaps perhaps perhaps not all things are because it appears.

Fatal flirting

It had been Christmas time Eve and 25-year-old Kevin Bacon – perhaps not the star – but a hairstylist and therapy pupil during the University of Michigan had been longing for a very early xmas present.

He’d been chatting in the dating that is gay Grindr with a handsome guy twice their age. The guy wished to fulfill and was just a 30 minute drive away in semi-rural Morrice, Michigan.

25-year-old Kevin Bacon ended up being killed by their Grindr date. Credit: Supplied

Although he had been understood by a couple of other aliases, the man’s genuine title had been Mark Latunski. He had been a killer and a cannibal.

Maybe maybe maybe Not very long after Kevin stepped through the door that is front of house, he had been slaughtered.

Exactly exactly exactly exactly What occurred next had been a lot more rare and appalling.

A cruel end up to a life that is young

Around 5pm on xmas Eve, Kevin told buddy and roomie, Michelle Myers, he had been down to satisfy a man he’d been emailing on Grindr, but didn’t tell her where.

At 6.12pm he delivered her a text saying he had been fun that is having to not wait up. It absolutely was the time that is last heard from him.

Kevin, packed with hope, wandered as a nightmare.

Their daddy Karl, stated, ‘Evil does occur also it touched us.’

Kevin Bacon is lacking

Whenever Kevin didn’t appear in the conventional household xmas Day brunch, their dad rang Myers. (mais…)