Match.com says Las Vegas woman’s lawsuit is ‘absurd’
An online dating service contends a Las Vegas woman has no legal basis for her lawsuit seeking $10 million after she was matched with a man who hid in her garage and attacked her.
Mary Kay Beckman filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court on Friday accusing Match.com of failing to disclose the dangers of online dating.
She said she had known Wade Ridley only eight days when she broke up with him in September 2010. Four months later he stabbed her 10 times. He later was charged with murdering a woman in Phoenix. He died in prison last year.
Match.com said in a statement Monday that Beckman's experience was horrible, but the lawsuit is "absurd." It said Beckman was a victim of a "sick, twisted" man with no known criminal record.
