Sharon Lopatka wanted to be strangled to death, so she met a man online who was willing to do it. Sharon told her husband she was going to visit friends, and left her Maryland home for North Carolina where her new friend Bobby Glass would end her life. On October 25,1996, police found Sharon’s body near Bobby’s home. The ligature marks on her neck suggested her violent death was what she’d asked for.

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After a week of preliminary hearings during which the court heard investigators describe how 22-year-old Marine wife Brittany Killgore was brutally raped and strangled, a judge in Vista, Ca., has ruled that the man and two woman accused of her murder will stand trial.

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A hearing begins today for the three defendants accused of murdering Marine wife Brittany Killgore in California last April. The hearing is expected to last five days and will determine whether there is sufficient evidence to try Marine Sgt. Louis Ray Perez and his lovers Jessica Lopez and Dorothy Maraglino for Killgore’s murder.

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On February 28, 2005, a hooded, harnessed and latex-clad Stern was found shot in the head four times, having insulted the wrong person and received the ultimate punishment. The salacious details of his murder spread quickly as speculation regarding the killer’s identity ran wild.

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It’s a strange case that keeps getting stranger. Three people involved in a master-slave BDSM relationship are accused of murdering a pretty young Marine wife in April of last year. Now, the prosecution has reportedly hired an expert to decipher a cryptic note found in one of the defendants’ jail cells.

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When Saudi prince Al Saud bin Abdulaziz bin Nasir al Saud’s male companion was found dead in their posh London hotel suite, Al Saud claimed his friend’s death was an accident. Evidence instead pointed to a Master-Slave affair characterized by extreme violence.

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The case has been compared to Fifty Shades of Grey, but unlike in the bestselling book, the sex slave dies.

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Was MI6 spy Gareth Williams the target of a professional hit, or an introverted computer geek seeking fetishist gratification inside a gym bag dying by misadventure? His family believes that there is still much to be revealed in this perplexing case.

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Robinson, the first Internet serial killer used BDSM chat rooms to lure lonely, unsuspecting women to their deaths, and continued to cash their government or alimony checks. His brutal treatment of his sometimes willing victims stands in stark contrast to his benign, fleshy appearance. Despite it all however, on October 11, 2000, at his murder trial, his wife told the court said that she still loved him.

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A California woman charged with murder in the death of Marine wife Brittany Killgore has reportedly delivered a baby. The San Diego Reader reported Monday that Dorothy Maraglino, 37, gave birth to a child fathered by Louis Perez, 46, who is also charged in Killgore’s slaying. Maraglino, Perez, and a third co-defendant, Jessica Lopez, 25, have all pleaded not guilty to murder.

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