Swipe Right for Murder - Season 1

Swipe Right for Murder - Season 1

Season 1

The series delves into the dark side of online dating, revealing cases where app-based interactions led unsuspecting people into deadly encounters. With access to families, friends, and investigators involved, the series examines how technology brings unique dangers, allowing criminals unprecedented access to potential victims and posing complex challenges for law enforcement.
Network
Episodes8
DatesNov 16, 2017 - Dec 28, 2017

Episodes

Nadine Aburas
Season 1Episode 160 min

Nadine Aburas

In 2012, when Nadine Aburas from Cardiff met New Yorker Sammy Almahri on a Muslim dating site, he seemed charismatic and glamourous. Their online relationship became intense and he came to Cardiff to visit her. In July 2014, Almahri paid for Nadine to fly out to New York to visit him. There, however, Nadine saw a different side to him. He was jealous and violent and threatened to blackmail her with compromising photos he'd taken of her if she left him.

To try and regain control, she invited him back to Cardiff in December 2014 when she planned to finish with him on her own turf. After an altercation with one of Nadine's brothers Almahri drank heavily and called Nadine who had his passport. After she brought it to him he went on to strangle her before going on the run. He spent the following days taunting Nadine's family and the police, telling them he was in a variety of locations including Cuba, when in fact he moved from Qatar to Tanzania.

With the help of the Tanzanian police, South Wales Police tracked Almahri down and extradited him. He refused to plead guilty to Nadine's murder – until, on the second day of his trial on 19th October 2016, he surprised everyone by admitting his guilt and was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 17 years.

Nov 16, 2017
Nicole White
Season 1Episode 260 min

Nicole White

This week looks at the case of young mother Nicole White. She met Jonathan Harris online and he seemed to be just the rugged type of man she found attractive. Their first date went well and they decided to meet for a second time, a couple of weeks later. CCTV footage from their second date showed their evening getting off to a great start and at the end of the evening the pair drove off in Nicole's car, but she never made it home. Harris denied any involvement in her disappearance, and despite a huge search, there was no sign of Nicole. The police had little evidence with which to use to arrest Harris. However, when the FBI later arrested him on munitions charges the police continued their investigations and uncovered key evidence about Harris' whereabouts the day after Nicole's disappearance linking Harris to the remote spot where Nicole's body was finally discovered. In the face of overwhelming evidence Harris pleaded guilty at his trial and on October 31 2016, he was sentenced to 26 years in prison.

Nov 23, 2017
Clare Wood
Season 1Episode 360 min

Clare Wood

In April 2007, lonely and looking for love, Clare Wood met 40-year-old fairground worker George Appleton online. At first, it seemed to be the perfect relationship but neither her father nor her brother warmed to him. When she discovered that Appleton was having affairs Clare attempted to end the relationship and over the next six months made several complaints to Police about him. On 6th February 2009, her ex-husband discovered her burned body at her home in Salford and a national manhunt began until Appleton, was found hanged in a derelict pub near her home. After Clare's death, it emerged that Appleton had a history of violence towards women, and had several previous convictions for harassment and assault.

Nov 30, 2017
Carly Ryan
Season 1Episode 460 min

Carly Ryan

When teenager Carly Ryan went online to meet new friends, she thought she'd met the boy of her dreams in 18-year-old musician, Brandon Kane. She lived in Adelaide and he lived in Melbourne, so their relationship developed over the internet. They chatted intensely online for 18 months - always under the watchful eyes of both Carly's mother Sonya, and Brandon's stepfather, Shane. When Brandon couldn't come to her 15th birthday party, Carly was delighted that Shane said he would come instead. Being so far from home, Shane stayed the night but the following morning Sonya was horrified to discover Shane not in the guest room, but in Carly's room, sleeping on top of her bed. She threw him out of the house immediately. After begging and pleading, Sonya allowed Carly to continue chatting to Brandon online, and life continued as normal. Or so it seemed. On 19th February 2007, Carly went to stay the night with friends. When Sonya called Carly the next morning, Carly didn't answer and her mother was instantly worried. She then got a call from a man saying he'd found Carly's purse on the side of the road. Carly's body was discovered at a beach 80km south of Adelaide and the terrifying truth was revealed. Carly had kept a secret from her mother - she wasn't seeing friends. Carly had planned to meet Brandon. What neither Carly nor Sonia knew was that Brandon and Shane didn't exist. They were just two of more than 200 online personas created by 50-year-old Garry Newman. Newman lured Carly away from her family, attacked and killed her.

Dec 7, 2017
Lorraine Long
Season 1Episode 560 min

Lorraine Long

Finding herself alone for the first time in many years following the death of her husband, 62-year-old Lorraine Long decided to try online dating. In 2009, she met Robert Wiesner on an online dating site. Lorraine and Robert quickly hit it off and the relationship flourished. But friends and family had misgivings about Lorraine's new man - he seemed vain, spent too much time on his car, he didn't have a steady job and he led a transient lifestyle. Their relationship soured after he started to show signs of jealousy and an explosive temper. Lorraine tried to end the relationship, but Robert refused to let her go. Lorraine was so frightened by his actions and his refusal to leave her alone, that she took a restraining order against him. Five months later, he broke in to Lorraine's house, drove with her to her remote ranch house in the desert, and he shot her twice in the chest. Wiesner is serving a total of 27 years in prison for burglary and the murder of Lorraine Long.

Dec 14, 2017
Kayleigh Haywood
Season 1Episode 660 min

Kayleigh Haywood

Kayleigh Haywood was 15 when 27-year-old Luke Harlow contacted her out of the blue online. He bombarded her with messages, saying she was pretty, special, and that he should be her boyfriend. From this intense grooming (over 2,500 messages exchanged in just two weeks), Harlow persuaded Kayleigh to lie to her parents to meet him. On Friday 13th November 2015, Kayleigh told her parents she was staying overnight with a friend, and instead went to meet Harlow for the first time. On the Saturday, Kayleigh messaged her mother to ask if she could stay another night, and believing she was safe, her mother agreed. It was on the Sunday morning, when a local builder found Kayleigh's smashed phone on the side of a road, that her parents realised something was terribly wrong and called the police. Kayleigh's social media activity lead them to Harlow, who denied knowing what had happened to Kayleigh, instead implicating his neighbour Stephen Beadman. Trying to explain away fresh injuries to his face, Beadman told police he'd fallen while doing some contract work at an outdoor site. He inadvertently led police to this location, where they discovered a bonfire with clothing stained with Kayleigh's blood. After three days of questioning, he finally confessed to her murder, and disclosed the location of her body. On 19th November 2015, Beadman was charged with Kayleigh's rape and murder, and Harlow with grooming and sexual activity with a child. They were later sentenced to life in prison and 12 years respectively.

Dec 21, 2017
Ashley Pegram
Season 1Episode 760 min

Ashley Pegram

Twenty-eight-year-old Ashley Pegram was a mum to three young children. Her world fell apart when her partner, and the father to her youngest son, was killed in a car accident returning home from work. Lonely and depressed, Ashley began to use dating apps to meet new men. On Friday 3rd April 2015, Ashley hastily arranged to meet a guy she'd met online just a few hours earlier. He called himself 'E Money Bon'. She left for her date around 9pm, and she was never seen again. That night, she had left the phone she shared with her family at home, and the police were able to use a text that her date, Edward Bonilla, had sent her, to track him down. Bonilla denied any involvement in Ashley's disappearance but Bonilla's story didn't stack up. They found Ashley's blood in his work van and the car he was driving that night. It was a month later that her body was found. On 11th August 2016, a jury found Edward Bonilla guilty. He was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole.

Dec 28, 2017
Sharon Siermans
Season 1Episode 860 min

Sharon Siermans

Twenty-nine-year-old mum Sharon Siermans from Ballarat (Victoria, Australia) was looking for love when she began chatting online to a man named Jason Godfrey, in January 2013. They arranged their first date but when Sharon met him at Ballarat train station, he looked nothing like he did online. Sharon was so embarrassed to be seen with him in public that she made a catastrophic decision: she invited him to her house. The date didn't go well, so Sharon called it short. Sharon forgot all about her disastrous date and moved on. Meanwhile Jason was beginning a relationship with another local single mum, Sonji Beacham. But Jason Godfrey was not the man he claimed to be online. He was actually called Jason Dinsley and he was a man spinning a web of lies to hide his violent criminal past. Three months passed with no further contact. When Dinsley went for a late-night walk in the early hours of Saturday 6th April 2013, he walked past Sharon's house. It brought back his intense feelings of rejection and he flew into a rage. He got a cricket bat from home, broke into Sharon's house and beat her to death. What no one knew was that Jason Dinsley was on parole for a previous rape at the time of Sharon's murder. He was sentenced to life in prison with a non-parole period of 32 years.

Dec 28, 2017

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