Online Killers by Christopher Barry-Dee;Steven Morris Read Free Book Online Page B

her fingers on a computer keyboard, she became five-foot-six and a shapely 121 pounds. A few more taps and she was an aggressive 300-pound dominatrix who promised strict discipline. Or she could tap and become “Nancy Carlson,” a screen actress prepared to star in whatever type of sexual video her fans cared to purchase.
    As Nancy Carlson, Sharon sold videos of unconscious women having sexual intercourse. According to the Augusta Chronicle of November 4, 1996, one excerpt from an advertisement dated Tuesday, October 1, 1996, stated, “Hi! My name is Nancy. I just made a VHS video of actual women… willing and unwilling to be… knocked out… drugged… under hypnosis and chloroformed. Never before has a film like this been made that shows the real beauty of the sleeping victim.”
    Sharon even went so far as to advertise her own undergarments online, with a message which read, “Is there anyone out there interested in buying my worn panties?” She certainly had no qualms about advertising and selling products that would appeal to the lurid sexual fetishes of her customers. She also had her own risque sexual fantasies that she actively sought to fulfill:

    “ Do you dare enter … the Land of the Giantess???
    “Where men are crushed like bugs… by these angry… yet gorgeous giant goddesses.”
    Sharon used the web for a variety of purposes, such as to obtain business ideas and make money. However, she also used it to interact with a larger variety of people who shared her unconventional interests. She often ventured into hardcore pornographic chat rooms where subscribers would openly discuss their interests in necrophilia, bondage, fetishes and sadomasochism.
    One of her ads read, “Let me customize your most exciting TORTURE fantasy for you… on VHS… to watch and enjoy privately in the comfort of your own home. A film designed by you… with scenarios of your choice. Films are shipped in plain envelopes to protect your… privacy.”
    She used many pseudonyms and multiple personae in her internet messages. These “masks” allowed her anonymity and the freedom to pursue her unusual fantasies. According to the Washington Post of November 3, 1996, one message Sharon posted stated that she had “a fascination with torturing till death.”
    Over several months, the North Carolina News & Observer found more than 50 messages by Sharon where the overriding theme was that she wanted to be tortured and killed. Often she would post messages looking for a man to satisfy her wish.
    “I guess some people have some kind of inner thing going on that you just never know about,” said Debra Walker, Lopatka’s neighbor. “I think we knew them as well as anyone in the neighborhood. She was just like anyone else you know, and that kind of scares me in a way, to think you really never know somebody.”

    A sex-rights activist named Tanith, who often visited the sites, said that she became concerned about Sharon’s strange messages. On November 3, 1996, the Washington Post quoted Tanith saying that Sharon was “going to chat rooms and asking to be tortured to death.” Tanith says she had tried to stop her, but Sharon refused. Sharon replied to the woman, “I want the real thing. I did not ask for you preaching to me.”
    Sharon would sit at her computer typing furiously for hours at a time, trying to make contact with the right person to satisfy her strange desires. Numerous responses to her messages offered to fulfill her fantasy, but the senders withdrew when they discovered that her requests were serious.
    Eventually, she found a man who swallowed the bait. Several weeks after meeting him on screen, her last wish was to come true.
    She arrived in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains while the foliage was still colored with brilliant oranges and yellows and reds to meet that man in person. And, police say, in the ultimate fulfillment of her desires, she was bound with rope, made to bleed and then strangled, before