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I read your article Blind Dating with Myspace.com the other day and it really got me thinking. I wondered how many people actually use this site for dating purposes. I ran a search just as your writer did to see how many people in my area were:

single/divorced
between 25-55
simply looking for dating.

I revised what you searched for because I am not going to be dating a 55 year old woman I met on MySpace, so I entered a search for:

single/divorced
between 18-35
here for dating

I live in Baltimore, MD and within 10 miles from my zip code there were 3,000 women, just like in your search. I then went to Google, and typed in MySpace Dating Baltimore and the first story that came back was about a woman that was murdered by a guy that she met on MySpace!

The woman’s name was Josie Phyllis Brown. She met a guy named John Christopher Gaumer through MySpace and decided to go out and get a few drinks. After she agreed to go back to Gaumer’s apartment, she decided that she had changed her mind and wanted to go home. At this point Gaumer became enraged and pulled the car over to the side of the road near I-95 exit near Arbutus - which is only about 15 minutes from where I live and threw Brown over a guard rail. He then proceeded to beat her to death with a tree limb. The rest of the details of this story from this point on are far too graphic to get into. John Gaumer did avoid the death penalty, just last month on May 16th, due to the fact that this murder did not fit the criteria for the death sentence in Maryland. However, he will spend the remainder of his life in prison for this crime. I read a little more into this story and found out that she knew Gaumer for a little more than two hours before going out to drink with him.

I am not sure if you have heard of this story, but it kinda fits in with what your writer was trying to say about running background checks on people you meet online. You never know who you are talking to or what they are capable of just by seeing someone’s profile. Keep up the good work!

-Lee Stevens
Baltimore Md.

Jun 11, 2007

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