A woman is suing Match.com for $10 million after a man she met on the dating website tried to kill her with a knife.
Mary Kay Beckman, a real estate agent in Las Vegas and mother of two, met Wade Ridley on the dating website in 2010. They went out a few times, but she dumped him after eight days.
That didn't sit well with Ridley. "He broke into my garage," she told local TV station KVVU, then he stabbed her 10 times with a butcher knife. "When the knife broke, he stomped on her head," according to the Daily Mail.
"When the police arrested him, he said he wasn't there to hurt me," Beckman told KVVU. "He was there to kill me. His intent was to kill me that night."
Beckaman had to undergo three head surgeries after the attack to "repair her jaw, preserve her eyesight, and remove a part of her skull," said the Daily Mail.
Police apparently let Ridley go free after the attack, because just a month later, while Beckman was still recovering in the hospital, Ridley met a second woman through Match.com, Anne Marie Simenson, and murdered her with a machete and a butcher knife "before getting away with her car, jewelry and elctronics."
"I struggled a lot thinking, why did she die and why did I live," Beckman told KVVU. She wants Match.com to display more visible warnings about the dangers of using an online dating website. Match.com, on the other hand, insisted they do provide proper warnings for users.
"What happened to Mary Kay Beckman is horrible but this lawsuit is absurd," the dating website said in a statement.
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