First Date Horror Story 1: The Persistent Australian

• 💡 A woman in New Zealand matches with a man on Tinder from Australia.
• ⚠️ He becomes increasingly persistent and impatient before their first date, showing narcissistic tendencies.
• 🔪 During the date, he makes unsettling comments about police investigations, missing bodies, and poisonous snakes.
• 😨 He recounts a story about a friend who accidentally killed his girlfriend during consensual intimacy, a story that later turns out to be a confession.
• 😱 The woman realizes he murdered a British girl named Grace Mullane the day before their date and disposed of her body in the Waitakere Ranges.

First Date Horror Story 2: The Jealous Ex-Boyfriend

• 💔 A man recovering from a breakup uses Hinge and matches with a beautiful Persian woman named Sarushay.
• ☕ They arrange to meet for coffee, but a man, seemingly a jealous ex-boyfriend, begins staring at them from his car.
• ⚠️ Sarushay becomes terrified and urges them to leave immediately.
• 🌊 Outside the coffee shop, the man corners the narrator, grabs him by the throat, and pushes him towards the river with a strong current.
• 🙏 The attacker eventually backs off, leaving the narrator shaken but alive.

First Date Horror Story 3: The Museum of Death Date

• 🖤 A man matches with a goth girl named Lilith on Tinder and agrees to a date at the Museum of Death.
• 💀 Lilith expresses disturbing fascination with death, asking the narrator how he'd like to die and describing violent fantasies.
• ⛓️ She expresses a desire to chain him up and watch him drown, and describes gruesome Viking practices.
• 😨 The narrator is deeply freaked out and asks Lilith to stop a few blocks from her house, later blocking her number.

First Date Horror Story 4: The Zodiac Killer

• 💔 David Faraday and Betty Lou Jensen, high school sweethearts, go on their first date in December 1968.
• 🚗 They park at a secluded spot known as Lover's Lane.
• 🔪 Another car pulls up, and a stranger emerges, shooting David and then Betty Lou multiple times.
• 💀 The killer, later identified as the Zodiac Killer, escapes, leaving the young couple dead.
• ❓ The Zodiac Killer's identity remains a mystery, with confirmed murders of five people but claims of many more.

First Date Horror Story 5: The Online Dating Murderer

• 👩‍👧‍👧 Ingrid Marie Lynn, a divorced mother of three, meets John Charlton on Plenty of Fish.
• ⚾ Their first date is a baseball game, but John has a hidden criminal record.
• 🔪 Ingrid goes missing after the date, and her dismembered body is found in recycling bins.
• 🩸 Evidence at her home and John's arrest lead to the discovery of his guilt.
• 💔 John confesses to the murder, revealing a history of violence and substance abuse.

First Date Horror Story 6: The Predator on 'Meet Me'

• 💔 Ashley Nicole Pegram, a single mother of three, meets Edward Bonilla on the dating app 'Meet Me'.
• 📱 They communicate via Kik and arrange a first date on April 3rd, 2015.
• 💀 Ashley is never seen alive again, and Edward becomes the prime suspect.
• 🔪 Her body is found buried in a shallow grave, bound with electrical tape, and showing signs of blunt force trauma and drugging.
• ⚖️ Edward claims it was an accident, but the jury finds him guilty of first-degree murder and sentences him to life in prison.