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Sharon Rina Lopatka (née Denburg; September 20, 1961 – October 16, 1996) was an Internet entrepreneur in Hampstead, Maryland, United States who was killed in a case of apparent consensual homicide. Lopatka was tortured and strangled to death on October 16, 1996, by Robert "Bobby" Frederick Glass, a computer analyst from North Carolina.
Glass, a county-government computer programmer, is charged with her murder. His attorney says Glass maintains that Lopatka’s death was an accident that happened while the two were having sex.
In August 1996, 34-year-old Sharon Lopatka met 45-year-old computer analyst Robert Frederick Glass in a pornographic online chat room. Before meeting Glass, Lopatka had posted messages in multiple online groups, including one in which she wrote about her fascination with being tortured to death.
Police were torn because on one hand, it was very clear that Robert had killed her, but on the other hand, the emails written by Robert supported the case of premeditated murder and not an...
Her death -- the police call it murder, the attorney for Glass calls it an accident -- exposed the fanciful second lives victim and killer had created for themselves on the computer network.
Lopatka died Oct. 16, three days after Glass met her at the train station in Charlotte, Hutchings said. Investigators also found some of Lopatka's belongings in Glass's house, he said.
They would discover nearly 900 emails between Sharon and Robert Frederick Glass, a 45-year-old computer analyst from Lenoir, North Carolina. The emails were incredibly graphic and violent in...
