FÖR TVÅ ÅR SEDAN, sent på en februarinatt i Vernon, British Columbia, kämpade Melissa Trixie Watt för att sova, så hon sträckte sig efter sin telefon. Hon såg att hon hade ett Facebook-meddelande. ”Hur mår du? Jag hoppas att du mår bra”, stod det i DM:et från en okänd man.
Enligt hans profil var han en bärgningsbilschaufför med ett långt, grått skägg. Han bodde 45 minuter bort och sa att han hade pratat med henne på OkCupid – en sida som hon aldrig hade använt. ”Jag tror att jag borde komma till Vernon och träffa dig”, skrev han. ”Vad är dina tankar om det?”
TWO YEARS AGO, late on a February night in Vernon, British Columbia, Melissa Trixie Watt was struggling to sleep, so she reached for her phone. She saw that she had a Facebook message. “How are you? I hope you are well,” read the DM from an unknown man. According to his profile, he was a tow truck driver with a long, graying beard. He lived 45 minutes away and said he’d been talking to her on OkCupid—a site she’d never used. “I think I should come to Vernon and see you,” he wrote. “What are your thoughts on that?” Lying under her duvet, Watt felt a chill.
She wrote back and asked for screenshots of the conversations. It turned out that he knew more of her personal details: the car she drives, that she works as a massage therapist, the name of her practice. Scariest of all, he was under the impression that they’d made plans to meet up and enact a rape fantasy.
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