Murder is a fate principally undesired, the deliberate stealing of a person’s life bringing shock to everyone within communal reach. When it is consensually instigated for fetish purposes, how does the public react? An internet entrepreneur, middle-aged American woman Sharon Lopatka was described “as normal as you can get;” alas, a darker side prevailed online, the sexual deviant frequenting chat rooms with fantasies of being tortured until death. Gratification increased when the suburban wife pretended to be a three-hundred-pound dominatrix persona, vocalizing the urge to die at the hands of someone overfeeding her extensively in addition to general bondage or strangulation.
A perfect storm occurred because fellow sadomasochist Robert Glass, lonely once his wife left him after discovering the disturbing nature of what he was doing spending so much time on the computer, encountered Sharon. After Lopatka left a single note behind for her husband saying she was running off to meet a new acquaintance, only to never return, police were called and combed the computer, revealing over 900 emails between the two where Glass expressed fulfilling her lethal desires. Tracking down the house, a stake out revealed no trace of Sharon, who had already been buried in the backyard at that point.
The previous few days, the disastrous pair had been living out their impulses, only during the ordeal Glass accidentally killed Sharon, not intending to end the process so soon. Autopsies said ligature marks proved this scenario, although law enforcement thought differently of the intention. People were shocked at the thought of an essentially consensual homicide, yet before Glass could finish his surprisingly short sentence (for where he had been incarcerated more for the child pornagraphy found within the home than the killing) he had a fatal heart attack.
