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hello and welcome and if you're returning welcome back today we're discussing some
more heartbreaking stories of Tinder dates that took a murderous turn let's get into it
with over 75 million monthly active users Tinder has revolutionized how people meet from anywhere
in the world and as you're watching this millions of people are probably swiping
left and right looking for their match made in heaven and although matches on Tinder have the
potential to blossom into something romantic some take a dark turn and end tragically
number one Mika ort on the night of March 5th 2022 police were called because of a house fire
in the center of louvarden the Forsan capital in the Netherlands the fire was quickly extinguished
but officers found the body of a 21 year old woman in one of the apartments above a tattoo
parlor she was stabbed multiple times with a sharp object the woman was Mika ort an American student
who was studying Leisure and events management at NHL standing University of applied sciences
Mika was of Dutch Heritage and was excited about her new life in the Netherlands she
had recently moved into the apartment which was around 90 minutes away from Amsterdam following
a breakup with her boyfriend of two years Mick had recently been matched with a new
date on Tinder he reportedly became quickly violent and started stalking her after she
told him she didn't want to continue seeing him because she got back together with her ex
that Tinder date revealed to be 27 year old Thomas R who was caught by the German police
a few hours after the murder he was found in Lear a small town across the Dutch borders
he was turned in by his parents who alerted local police after he contacted them while
fleeing confessing to them what he'd done they told law enforcement they were
perplexed by their son's behavior and were left deeply shaken after receiving his call
police reports showed that Thomas first threw an incendiary bomb at the apartment building
sparking the fire they suspected he started the fire to lure the residents out a fight
broke out in the stairwell between him and two male residents who were left mildly injured he
then climbed the stairs and attacked Mika in her apartment stabbing her to death
in an interview with a Dutch newspaper Michael makes ex-boyfriend said that they were thinking
about rekindling their relationship which he believed may have sent Thomas over the edge
he'd started stalking her and even installed a GPS tracker on her bicycle to keep tabs on her
he also harassed her by sending intimidating messages via WhatsApp
my baby sister he don't really know how to cope with it the brutal crime has devastated Mika ort's
family tonight from the Netherlands her sisters remembering the 21 year old who was studying
in a city about an hour and a half outside Amsterdam she had just so much more to give
and she had just a lot of love for everyone Thomas R is now waiting extradition to the
Netherlands where he will likely be charged with Mika ort's murder
number two Lauren Smith fields on the evening of December 13 2021 Chantelle Smith and her son went
to check on her 23 year old daughter Lauren Chantel was concerned because Lauren wasn't
returning their calls or applying to texts which was unusual when they arrived at her apartment in
Bridgeport Connecticut they found a strange note on the apartment door that said If you're looking
for Lauren please contact this number the number belonged to Lauren's landlord who notified them
of her death and gave them the number of the detective assigned to the case Chantel was in
shock and couldn't believe that she was learning of her daughter's death from the landlord Lauren
had died the night before and law enforcement had never bothered to notify next of kin of her death
according to Chantel her son spoke with the detective and he mentioned that Lauren had been
on a date the night of her death with an older man she met on Bumble a dating app similar to Tinder
the detectives told him that they didn't need to worry about him because he was a really nice guy
the really nice guy was a 37 year old man named Matthew lafountain he was the last person to
see Lauren alive yet he hasn't been named as a person of interest nor was he taken into custody
for questioning in the police report lafountain accounted that he recalled arriving at Lauren's
apartment around 9 30 p.m the night before he said that the two had matched unbumbled three
days prior and they'd been chatting he claimed that Lauren had asked him for forty dollars to
get her nails done and told him to meet her at her place with a bottle of tequila the fountain
proceeded to say that they drank tequila played games then had food together before starting to
watch a movie at one point he said Lauren went to the bathroom to throw up and in another she went
outside to get something from her brother when she returned to the apartment he said that she
went directly to the bathroom and stayed there for 10-15 minutes and when she came back live out and
said that she fell asleep on the couch during the movie and he carried her into the bedroom
where he fell asleep next to her he claimed that he woke up at 3am to use the washroom and heard
her snoring then he woke again at 6 30 a.m and saw blood dripping onto the bed which was coming
out of her nose he checked her pulse and found she wasn't breathing and that's when he called 9-1-1
the First Responders to the scene wrote in the incident report that lafountain was frantic and
visibly shaken the weirdest part was that police never contacted the family nor did
they immediately examine the scene no one in the Smithfield's family was notified her
death until Chantel went to her daughter's apartment and was informed by the landlord
according to Lauren's brother when he and his family walked into the apartment to gather
Lauren's belongings they found bottles of alcohol flipped plates of food a Blood Stained sheet a
sedative pill and a used condom according to the Smithfield's family lawyer Darnell clausland no
evidence has been submitted to the forensic lab he said that the family was planning to sue the
city for failing to investigate Lauren's death properly on January 21st 2022 the family lawyer
issued a notice of claim announcing that they intended to sue the Bridgeport Police Department
for its poor handling of the case they believe the police department was racially insensitive as they
didn't take Lauren's death seriously on January 23rd which would have been Lauren's 24th birthday
activists and community members joined Lauren's family in a March outside the Bridgeport Police
Department where they demanded Justice for the young woman the Family's last contact with police
was on January 4th at headquarters with their attorney what I believe is that the police fail
to collect and preserve that environment from the first day the attorney has now filed a notice of
claim to sue Bridgeport for negligence claiming key evidence was not initially submitted to the
state lab I feel like because she's a white guy and she's a black girl it's just almost
like they just thrown it under the rug that night she was silent so now we are her voice but we're
here and we're fighting for her on January 24th autopsy results were publicly revealed
the medical examiner concluded that Lauren had died of acute intoxication due to the combined
effects of fentanyl promethazine hydroxine and alcohol her death was ruled an accident
crosland the family lawyer commented that the toxicology report made her death look even more
like a murder her family and friend said that Lauren didn't do drugs rarely drank and regularly
went to the gym and took care of herself her family believes that she was drugged and assaulted
and died from a lethal combination of drugs after that the city's mayor Joe ganim announced that the
office of internal affairs would conduct a full and fair investigation into how the police handled
Lauren's death six weeks after Lauren's death after a growing outcry to properly investigate
the case Bridgeport Police said that its narcotics and vice division along with the DEA were finally
going to investigate if any crimes were committed additionally there have been reports that the
fountain may have had a personal connection with one of the lead detectives it was reported that
a detective arrived at 3 30 a.m prior to the 9-1-1 call and there are allegations that this
detective may have assisted in covering up what happened to Lauren that detective was subsequently
investigated by Eternal Affairs and suspended another detective was also suspended pending
the results of an internal investigation they were suspended in January 2022 and as of this
recording there hasn't been an update on this case but let me know if you want me to follow it
number three Iceman atute it was in April 2021 when 18 year old Iceman atute was scrolling
through Tinder he was a student athlete for Virginia Tech University playing on
their football team he matched with the 21 year old woman named Angie Renee and the two
ranged to meet at Angie's apartment where the two arranged to have intimate relations on April 10th
he stated that when he arrived at the apartment it seemed sketchy it was really dark and his
date wouldn't show her face regardless the two achieved the objective of the evening Weeks Later
Iceman was talking to one of his teammates and his teammate asked if he had met Angie they had
also matched on Tinder and Angie said that she and Iceman had met up and he wanted to confirm
his teammate suspected that Angie was catfishing on the app and perhaps wasn't who they were saying
they were when the two discussed a plan to figure out who Angie was ice and lemon reached out to
Angie and set up another date and he went with two other friends to her apartment on May 31st
his friends waited outside while ice and lemon went inside with Angie similar to the first time
he went to the apartment it was dark and Angie was wearing a hoodie and sweatpants again he couldn't
see her face according to him he confronted Angie and discovered Angie was a middle-aged man
during the confrontation the two began scuffling and isomerman stated that during the fight the
other man began reaching between his mattress and he assumed that he was going for a firearm
he then started to punch the man in the face multiple times and ran out of the apartment
the man was discovered the following day by his brother and was later identified as 40 year old
Jerry Smith he had severe blunt force trauma and had died from injuries sustained in the beating
Smith had been using photographs he found online to meet young men for months the
real Angie Renee was an ER physician and also a graduate of Virginia Tech and she had no idea
her photo was being used on Tinder it didn't take long for law enforcement to track down
Iceman and his friends he had been very open with law enforcement about what had happened
at the time he was being interviewed he didn't know Smith had died and had assumed the man was
pressing assault charges against him he told the police officer he felt violated and said in the
interview quote I was in shock in disbelief that someone had tricked me and lied to me he told law
enforcement that he'd been scared and didn't know why this person had lied or what their motive was
behind luring him into his apartment and when he thought he was going for a weapon he panicked he
felt he was in the fight of his life police later determined that there was a weapon between the
mattresses though not a firearm there was a knife Iceman was later arrested and charged with murder
and pleaded not guilty he faced 40 years in prison if convicted and the trial began May 25th 2022
it was a relatively short trial only three days ice Amendment during trial he seemed remorseful
for his actions and his statements of events that took place at night never really changed or
shifted and his lawyer kept with the defense that he'd been lured into the apartment under false
pretenses and when he discovered that Angie was not the person he thought they were he panicked
when he thought that this person who was ultimately not who they said they
were was potentially reaching for what he believed was a weapon he fought for his life
the prosecution claimed that ice Amendment went to the apartment for the purpose of attacking
Smith they stated that the beating Smith perceived was well in excess of what he would have needed to
get out of the apartment and if he felt he was under threat why hadn't he called the police
man had stated that Smith had been alive when he left the apartment which was
confirmed by forensic evidence though they couldn't determine exactly when
he had died there was blood spatter evidence that showed he was breathing after the attack
his defense team hammered that ice amendment was 18 that he'd never been in trouble before didn't
have a history of violence and was a victim of sexual assault reluctant to call the police likely
stemmed from where he grew up in Norfolk Virginia where he'd experienced seeing a lot of crime
he told a story on the stand of his grandparents experiencing two violent robberies and saying that
they started sleeping with Firearms nearby and many people he knew kept weapons near their beds
the jury deliberated for three hours before coming to a verdict of not guilty ice amendment was
released following the verdict after his initial arrest he was held in jail pending the trial
results he had been suspended from school and from the football team he played for his lawyer made a
statement to the media following his release quote he's focusing now I think on trying to get his
life back together and trying to see what he can do to get re-enrolled in University and hopefully
be able to pursue college football which he loves so much this was a complicated case and before we
end the video I just want to add some things while Jerry Smith's death was initially investigated as
a hate crime there was no evidence to suggest that he was trans or identified as a woman there was no
evidence that this was a hate crime Jerry appeared to be very purposely misrepresenting himself as a
woman in order to have sexual relations with people who didn't know he was a middle-aged
man which is sexual assault from what we know of this case Smith Was a Serial predator of young men
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