Lopatka was tortured and strangled to death on October 16, , by Robert "Bobby" Frederick Glass, a computer analyst from North Carolina. The apparent purpose was mutual sexual gratification. The case was reportedly the first in which a police department arrested a murder suspect with evidence gathered primarily from email messages.
However, police contended that the death was intentional. Glass pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced to 36β53 months imprisonment. He died before his scheduled release. Abraham J. In , Lopatka started doing online advertising businesses from her Ellicott City home in order to make additional money. Never published before! Quick easy ways to decorate your home. In addition to her advertising and psychic reading business, Lopatka marketed pornographic content, using the alias Nancy Carlson, which depicted women who were unconscious from being drugged, hypnotized or chloroformed engaging in sex acts with each other.
She sold her undergarments , an advertisement for them reading, "Is there anyone out there interested in buying my worn panties I did not ask for you preaching to me.
Robert "Bobby" Frederick Glass worked as a computer analyst for the government of Catawba County, North Carolina , for nearly 16 years. His tasks included programming tax rolls and keeping track of the amount of vehicle gas consumption in the county. On the morning of October 13, , Lopatka informed her husband, Victor, that she was going to Georgia to meet acquaintances.
She also left him a note, which said that she would not return home and requested him not to track down Glass. The note also read, "If my body is never retrieved, don't worry: know that I'm at peace. Lopatka's husband found the note his wife left and notified police, who found six weeks of email conversations between Lopatka and Glass. In her email correspondence with Glass, Lopatka explicitly asked him to torture her to death.
