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Do their b tantalise? Are those pictur real and recent?</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Datg has always rried herent risk, but the morn days of digal datg, not everythg is as seems.</p><h2 class="css-7sl3hd-StyledSubhead e188yva80">Fatal flirtg</h2><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">It was Christmas Eve 2019 and 25-year-old Kev Ban - not the actor - but a hairstylist and psychology stunt at the Universy of Michigan was hopg for an early Christmas prent.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">He’d been chattg on the gay datg app Grdr wh a handsome man twice his age. The man wanted to meet and was only a 30 mute drive away semi-ral Morrice, Michigan.</p><figure class="css-1qsv1b2-StyledFigure e1e1fc3"><picture class="e1e1fc2 image css-13ob02x-PictureWhIntrsicRat-StyledArticleImage eosncpx0"></picture><figptn class="e1e1fc0 figptn css-1u2oo1a-StyledFigCaptn-StyledFigptn e13f1dd25"><span class="css-1vhm7mh-StyledFigCaptnText e13f1dd24"><span class="css-1vt5x9l-Captn e13f1dd23">25-year-old Kev Ban was killed by his Grdr date.</span><span> Cred: <!-- -->Supplied</span></span></figptn></figure><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Although he was known by a few other alias, the man’s real name was Mark Latunski. He was a killer and a nnibal.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Not long after Kev stepped through the ont door of Latunski’s home, he was slghtered.</p><div id="taboola-mid-article-thumbnails" class="css-11l5x19-StyledInleTaboola erpax21"></div><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">What happened next was even more appallg and rare.</p><h2 class="css-7sl3hd-StyledSubhead e188yva80">A cel end to a young life</h2><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Around 5pm on Christmas Eve, Kev told iend and roommate, Michelle Myers, he was off to meet a man he’d been chattg wh on Grdr, but didn’t tell her where.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">At 6.12pm he sent her a text msage sayg he was havg fun and not to wa up. It was the last time she heard om him.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Kev, full of hope, walked to a nightmare.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">His father Karl, said, ‘Evil do exist and touched .’</p><h2 class="css-7sl3hd-StyledSubhead e188yva80">Kev Ban is missg</h2><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">When Kev didn’t appear at the tradnal fay Christmas Day bnch, his father rang Myers.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">She checked his bed, which hadn’t been slept . There was no sign of his r and he wasn’t answerg his phone. It was out of character - Kev was a reliable and a good munitor.</p><div class="hi-prt ad-no-notice css-qyun7f-StyledAdUnWrapper ezkyf1c0"><div hidn="" class="css-14gg7-StyledCenter ezkyf1c3"><div class="css-1f85ydv-StyledNotice ezkyf1c2"><div class="ad-article-mrec-three css-aaad0t-StyledAdUn ezkyf1c4" hidn=""></div></div></div></div><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Somethg was very wrong, so his parents ntacted the Clayton Township Police.</p><figure class="css-1qsv1b2-StyledFigure e1e1fc3"><picture class="e1e1fc2 image css-13ob02x-PictureWhIntrsicRat-StyledArticleImage eosncpx0"></picture><figptn class="e1e1fc0 figptn css-1u2oo1a-StyledFigCaptn-StyledFigptn e13f1dd25"><span class="css-1vhm7mh-StyledFigCaptnText e13f1dd24"><span class="css-1vt5x9l-Captn e13f1dd23">Kev Ban was killed after meetg a man on Grdr.</span><span> Cred: <!-- -->Supplied</span></span></figptn></figure><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Late on Christmas Day police ‘pged’ Kev’s phone and found , along wh his wallet and some clothg, his r left a Clayton Township r park. There was no sign of Kev or his r keys.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">When they unlocked his Grdr nversatns they found his arrangement wh Latunski.</p><h2 class="css-7sl3hd-StyledSubhead e188yva80">Not the first cint</h2><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">A check on Latunski revealed a bizarre cint at his home about a month before.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">A neighbour had lled police after seeg a young man nng om the hoe, clad only a leather kilt. Wh wter snows loomg was not a sensible outf.</p><figure class="css-1qsv1b2-StyledFigure e1e1fc3"><picture class="e1e1fc2 image css-13ob02x-PictureWhIntrsicRat-StyledArticleImage eosncpx0"></picture><figptn class="e1e1fc0 figptn css-1u2oo1a-StyledFigCaptn-StyledFigptn e13f1dd25"><span class="css-1vhm7mh-StyledFigCaptnText e13f1dd24"><span class="css-1vt5x9l-Captn e13f1dd23">Mark Latunski admted to killg and mutilatg Ban.</span><span> Cred: <!-- -->Supplied</span></span></figptn></figure><div class="hi-prt ad-no-notice css-qyun7f-StyledAdUnWrapper ezkyf1c0"><div hidn="" class="css-14gg7-StyledCenter ezkyf1c3"><div class="css-1f85ydv-StyledNotice ezkyf1c2"><div class="ad-article-mrec-four css-aaad0t-StyledAdUn ezkyf1c4" hidn=""></div></div></div></div><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">The man had blood on his face and was screamg for help.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">He told police he’d met Latunski via a datg app. While the sex was nsensual and clud him beg chaed up, he beme ‘spooked’ by Latunski’s behavur and ped, but wouldn’t prs charg.</p><h2 class="css-7sl3hd-StyledSubhead e188yva80">A gome scene</h2><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Actg on the rmatn found on Kev’s datg app, Michigan State Police knocked on Latunski’s ont door the early hours of December 28.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Checkg on Kev’s welfare, the troopers asked Latunski if they uld search the hoe and he plied.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">In the basement, they found a hidn room.</p><figure class="css-1qsv1b2-StyledFigure e1e1fc3"><picture class="e1e1fc2 image css-13ob02x-PictureWhIntrsicRat-StyledArticleImage eosncpx0"></picture><figptn class="e1e1fc0 figptn css-1u2oo1a-StyledFigCaptn-StyledFigptn e13f1dd25"><span class="css-1vhm7mh-StyledFigCaptnText e13f1dd24"><span class="css-1vt5x9l-Captn e13f1dd23">Mark Latunski’s home Shiawassee County, Michigan.</span><span> Cred: <!-- -->WILX</span></span></figptn></figure><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Kev Ban was si - naked wh a rope wrapped around his ankl, hangg upsi down om a ceilg beam. He was ad and his tticl had been sliced off.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Latunski admted he’d stabbed Ban the back of the neck then sl his throat, then oked and ate the tticl.</p><h2 class="css-7sl3hd-StyledSubhead e188yva80">A long history of mental health issu</h2><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">The greatt peril of onle datg is what you don’t know about the person you’ve arranged to meet.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Latunski had an ex-wife and four children, a current hband and a long history of mental health issu.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">He’d been mted at least four tim for mental health problems.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Hband Jamie Arnold told the media they’d separated September 2019 bee of Latunski’s promiscuy and creasgly erratic behavur.</p><figure class="css-1qsv1b2-StyledFigure e1e1fc3"><picture class="e1e1fc2 image css-1fvax-PictureWhIntrsicRat-StyledArticleImage eosncpx0"></picture><figptn class="e1e1fc0 figptn css-1u2oo1a-StyledFigCaptn-StyledFigptn e13f1dd25"><span class="css-1vhm7mh-StyledFigCaptnText e13f1dd24"><span class="css-1vt5x9l-Captn e13f1dd23">Mark Latunski, shown on the televisn, listens on as Judge Ward L. Clarkson approv his petency tt.</span><span> Cred: <!-- -->Jake May<span>/</span>AP</span></span></figptn></figure><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Latunski had spent Christmas Day wh Arnold and some iends.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">“He appeared to be normal, he never exhibed any signs that anythg was wrong,” Arnold said.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">He dropped Latunski home that night but didn’t go si.</p><h2 class="css-7sl3hd-StyledSubhead e188yva80">Rememberg Kev</h2><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Michelle Myers was Kev’s clost iend, nfidante and roommate.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">She posted on Facebook: ‘Kev uld brighten up any room he walked to. He loved talkg about hair, makp, fashn, and mic. He LOVED Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, and Jefee Star’.</p><figure class="css-1qsv1b2-StyledFigure e1e1fc3"><picture class="e1e1fc2 image css-wc1dj-PictureWhIntrsicRat-StyledArticleImage eosncpx0"></picture><figptn class="e1e1fc0 figptn css-1u2oo1a-StyledFigCaptn-StyledFigptn e13f1dd25"><span class="css-1vhm7mh-StyledFigCaptnText e13f1dd24"><span class="css-1vt5x9l-Captn e13f1dd23">Pam and Karl Ban stand together ls than two weeks after their son Kev was found ad. </span><span> Cred: <!-- -->Jake May<span>/</span>AP</span></span></figptn></figure><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Kev’s father Karl told the media his son was, ‘a good person, he was passnate, he red for the people he met, he red for the people he worked wh. He loved everybody.’</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">The appallg prospect of murro nnibals is thankfully rare, but there have been a few recent memory.</p><h2 class="css-7sl3hd-StyledSubhead e188yva80">Platg up penis</h2><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">In 2001, Arm Meiw om Rotenberg, Germany advertised for a ‘well-built young man who wanted to be eaten.’ Bern Brans replied.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">The two met at Meiw home and after Brans had taken 20 sleepg tablets and dnk half a bottle of schnapps, his host chopped off his penis then ied .</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Both men then ded.</p><figure class="css-1qsv1b2-StyledFigure e1e1fc3"><picture class="e1e1fc2 image css-rqgmkg-PictureWhIntrsicRat-StyledArticleImage eosncpx0"></picture><figptn class="e1e1fc0 figptn css-1u2oo1a-StyledFigCaptn-StyledFigptn e13f1dd25"><span class="css-1vhm7mh-StyledFigCaptnText e13f1dd24"><span class="css-1vt5x9l-Captn e13f1dd23">Germany's self-nfsed nnibal Arm Meiw at his retrial for murr 2006.</span><span> Cred: <!-- -->THOMAS LOHNES<span>/</span>DDP/AFP via Getty Imag</span></span></figptn></figure><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Meiw later stabbed Brans the neck, dismembered him and put the piec his ep eeze. He later osted and oked parts of Brans wh garlic and olive and allegedly acpanied by a bold South Ain red we.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">It was an horrific tale of killg and nnibalism between nsentg adults.</p><h2 class="css-7sl3hd-StyledSubhead e188yva80">Milwkee monster</h2><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">US serial killer Jefey Dahmer raped, murred and dismembered 17 men between 1978 and 1991.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">He would meet men at gay bars and shoppg centr, lurg them to his home (or often his grandmother’s home) wh promis of money or sex. Dahmer would then give his victims alhol laced wh dgs before stranglg them.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">When his Milwkee home was searched, police found body parts a reigerator, the closet and a vat.</p><figure class="css-1qsv1b2-StyledFigure e1e1fc3"><picture class="e1e1fc2 image css-13ob02x-PictureWhIntrsicRat-StyledArticleImage eosncpx0"></picture><figptn class="e1e1fc0 figptn css-1u2oo1a-StyledFigCaptn-StyledFigptn e13f1dd25"><span class="css-1vhm7mh-StyledFigCaptnText e13f1dd24"><span class="css-1vt5x9l-Captn e13f1dd23">Jefey Lnel Dahmer mugshot.</span><span> Cred: <!-- -->Curt Bwardt<span>/</span>Sygma via Getty Imag</span></span></figptn></figure><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Dahmer had oked and eaten parts of his victims, keepg other parts as trophi and acidifyg the remas.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">In 1994, jt months before he was beaten to ath prison, reporter Stone Phillips asked Dahmer why he ate parts of his victims.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">“It ma me feel like they were a permanent part of me,” he replied.</p><h2 class="css-7sl3hd-StyledSubhead e188yva80">An Asie nnibal</h2><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Back Atralia, Kathere Knight plead guilty to the murr of her partner John Price.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">After stabbg Price, Knight skned and pated the rpse. Police found body parts served up wh vegetabl the kchen - she had tend on feedg them to his unspectg children.</p><figure class="css-1qsv1b2-StyledFigure e1e1fc3"><picture class="e1e1fc2 image css-1v0udw4-PictureWhIntrsicRat-StyledArticleImage eosncpx0"></picture><figptn class="e1e1fc0 figptn css-1u2oo1a-StyledFigCaptn-StyledFigptn e13f1dd25"><span class="css-1vhm7mh-StyledFigCaptnText e13f1dd24"><span class="css-1vt5x9l-Captn e13f1dd23">Kathere Knight and her facto John Price.</span><span> Cred: <!-- -->Random Hoe<span>/</span>AAP</span></span></figptn></figure><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">The abattoir worker beme the first woman Atralia to be sentenced to life jail whout parole.</p><h2 class="css-7sl3hd-StyledSubhead e188yva80">Insane or not?</h2><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Knight, Dahmer and Meiw were all found to be legally sane.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">However, Latunski’s se, the judge has allowed an sany plea and he’s ctody awag mental health evaluatn.</p><h2 class="css-7sl3hd-StyledSubhead e188yva80">Perils of onle datg</h2><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Atralia has plentiful s of dat g an app that end dreadful experienc.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">One recent se was that of Ratu Bose Melbourne, who ed a fake name on his Tr profile. He purported to be a former French soldier and LA-based bodyguard.</p><figure class="css-1qsv1b2-StyledFigure e1e1fc3"><picture class="e1e1fc2 image css-13ob02x-PictureWhIntrsicRat-StyledArticleImage eosncpx0"></picture><figptn class="e1e1fc0 figptn css-1u2oo1a-StyledFigCaptn-StyledFigptn e13f1dd25"><span class="css-1vhm7mh-StyledFigCaptnText e13f1dd24"><span class="css-1vt5x9l-Captn e13f1dd23">Thgs aren’t always what they seem onle datg.</span><span> Cred: <!-- -->Getty</span></span></figptn></figure><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">He nned, terrified, btalised and raped two women.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">In Augt 2019, Bose was sentenced on multiple unts wh the judge directg he serve a mimum of 9 years before beg eligible for parole.</p><h2 class="css-7sl3hd-StyledSubhead e188yva80">Safety first</h2><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Datg apps are now mastream but don’t fet the risks. 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Do their b tantalise? Are those pictur real and recent?</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Datg has always rried herent risk, but the morn days of digal datg, not everythg is as seems.</p><h2 class="css-7sl3hd-StyledSubhead e188yva80">Fatal flirtg</h2><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">It was Christmas Eve 2019 and 25-year-old Kev Ban - not the actor - but a hairstylist and psychology stunt at the Universy of Michigan was hopg for an early Christmas prent.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">He’d been chattg on the gay datg app Grdr wh a handsome man twice his age. The man wanted to meet and was only a 30 mute drive away semi-ral Morrice, Michigan.</p><figure class="css-1qsv1b2-StyledFigure e1e1fc3"><picture class="e1e1fc2 image css-13ob02x-PictureWhIntrsicRat-StyledArticleImage eosncpx0"></picture><figptn class="e1e1fc0 figptn css-1u2oo1a-StyledFigCaptn-StyledFigptn e13f1dd25"><span class="css-1vhm7mh-StyledFigCaptnText e13f1dd24"><span class="css-1vt5x9l-Captn e13f1dd23">25-year-old Kev Ban was killed by his Grdr date.</span><span> Cred: <!-- -->Supplied</span></span></figptn></figure><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Although he was known by a few other alias, the man’s real name was Mark Latunski. He was a killer and a nnibal.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Not long after Kev stepped through the ont door of Latunski’s home, he was slghtered.</p><div id="taboola-mid-article-thumbnails" class="css-11l5x19-StyledInleTaboola erpax21"></div><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">What happened next was even more appallg and rare.</p><h2 class="css-7sl3hd-StyledSubhead e188yva80">A cel end to a young life</h2><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Around 5pm on Christmas Eve, Kev told iend and roommate, Michelle Myers, he was off to meet a man he’d been chattg wh on Grdr, but didn’t tell her where.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">At 6.12pm he sent her a text msage sayg he was havg fun and not to wa up. It was the last time she heard om him.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Kev, full of hope, walked to a nightmare.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">His father Karl, said, ‘Evil do exist and touched .’</p><h2 class="css-7sl3hd-StyledSubhead e188yva80">Kev Ban is missg</h2><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">When Kev didn’t appear at the tradnal fay Christmas Day bnch, his father rang Myers.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">She checked his bed, which hadn’t been slept . There was no sign of his r and he wasn’t answerg his phone. It was out of character - Kev was a reliable and a good munitor.</p><div class="hi-prt ad-no-notice css-qyun7f-StyledAdUnWrapper ezkyf1c0"><div hidn="" class="css-14gg7-StyledCenter ezkyf1c3"><div class="css-1f85ydv-StyledNotice ezkyf1c2"><div class="ad-article-mrec-three css-aaad0t-StyledAdUn ezkyf1c4" hidn=""></div></div></div></div><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Somethg was very wrong, so his parents ntacted the Clayton Township Police.</p><figure class="css-1qsv1b2-StyledFigure e1e1fc3"><picture class="e1e1fc2 image css-13ob02x-PictureWhIntrsicRat-StyledArticleImage eosncpx0"></picture><figptn class="e1e1fc0 figptn css-1u2oo1a-StyledFigCaptn-StyledFigptn e13f1dd25"><span class="css-1vhm7mh-StyledFigCaptnText e13f1dd24"><span class="css-1vt5x9l-Captn e13f1dd23">Kev Ban was killed after meetg a man on Grdr.</span><span> Cred: <!-- -->Supplied</span></span></figptn></figure><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Late on Christmas Day police ‘pged’ Kev’s phone and found , along wh his wallet and some clothg, his r left a Clayton Township r park. There was no sign of Kev or his r keys.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">When they unlocked his Grdr nversatns they found his arrangement wh Latunski.</p><h2 class="css-7sl3hd-StyledSubhead e188yva80">Not the first cint</h2><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">A check on Latunski revealed a bizarre cint at his home about a month before.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">A neighbour had lled police after seeg a young man nng om the hoe, clad only a leather kilt. Wh wter snows loomg was not a sensible outf.</p><figure class="css-1qsv1b2-StyledFigure e1e1fc3"><picture class="e1e1fc2 image css-13ob02x-PictureWhIntrsicRat-StyledArticleImage eosncpx0"></picture><figptn class="e1e1fc0 figptn css-1u2oo1a-StyledFigCaptn-StyledFigptn e13f1dd25"><span class="css-1vhm7mh-StyledFigCaptnText e13f1dd24"><span class="css-1vt5x9l-Captn e13f1dd23">Mark Latunski admted to killg and mutilatg Ban.</span><span> Cred: <!-- -->Supplied</span></span></figptn></figure><div class="hi-prt ad-no-notice css-qyun7f-StyledAdUnWrapper ezkyf1c0"><div hidn="" class="css-14gg7-StyledCenter ezkyf1c3"><div class="css-1f85ydv-StyledNotice ezkyf1c2"><div class="ad-article-mrec-four css-aaad0t-StyledAdUn ezkyf1c4" hidn=""></div></div></div></div><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">The man had blood on his face and was screamg for help.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">He told police he’d met Latunski via a datg app. While the sex was nsensual and clud him beg chaed up, he beme ‘spooked’ by Latunski’s behavur and ped, but wouldn’t prs charg.</p><h2 class="css-7sl3hd-StyledSubhead e188yva80">A gome scene</h2><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Actg on the rmatn found on Kev’s datg app, Michigan State Police knocked on Latunski’s ont door the early hours of December 28.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Checkg on Kev’s welfare, the troopers asked Latunski if they uld search the hoe and he plied.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">In the basement, they found a hidn room.</p><figure class="css-1qsv1b2-StyledFigure e1e1fc3"><picture class="e1e1fc2 image css-13ob02x-PictureWhIntrsicRat-StyledArticleImage eosncpx0"></picture><figptn class="e1e1fc0 figptn css-1u2oo1a-StyledFigCaptn-StyledFigptn e13f1dd25"><span class="css-1vhm7mh-StyledFigCaptnText e13f1dd24"><span class="css-1vt5x9l-Captn e13f1dd23">Mark Latunski’s home Shiawassee County, Michigan.</span><span> Cred: <!-- -->WILX</span></span></figptn></figure><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Kev Ban was si - naked wh a rope wrapped around his ankl, hangg upsi down om a ceilg beam. He was ad and his tticl had been sliced off.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Latunski admted he’d stabbed Ban the back of the neck then sl his throat, then oked and ate the tticl.</p><h2 class="css-7sl3hd-StyledSubhead e188yva80">A long history of mental health issu</h2><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">The greatt peril of onle datg is what you don’t know about the person you’ve arranged to meet.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Latunski had an ex-wife and four children, a current hband and a long history of mental health issu.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">He’d been mted at least four tim for mental health problems.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Hband Jamie Arnold told the media they’d separated September 2019 bee of Latunski’s promiscuy and creasgly erratic behavur.</p><figure class="css-1qsv1b2-StyledFigure e1e1fc3"><picture class="e1e1fc2 image css-1fvax-PictureWhIntrsicRat-StyledArticleImage eosncpx0"></picture><figptn class="e1e1fc0 figptn css-1u2oo1a-StyledFigCaptn-StyledFigptn e13f1dd25"><span class="css-1vhm7mh-StyledFigCaptnText e13f1dd24"><span class="css-1vt5x9l-Captn e13f1dd23">Mark Latunski, shown on the televisn, listens on as Judge Ward L. Clarkson approv his petency tt.</span><span> Cred: <!-- -->Jake May<span>/</span>AP</span></span></figptn></figure><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Latunski had spent Christmas Day wh Arnold and some iends.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">“He appeared to be normal, he never exhibed any signs that anythg was wrong,” Arnold said.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">He dropped Latunski home that night but didn’t go si.</p><h2 class="css-7sl3hd-StyledSubhead e188yva80">Rememberg Kev</h2><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Michelle Myers was Kev’s clost iend, nfidante and roommate.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">She posted on Facebook: ‘Kev uld brighten up any room he walked to. He loved talkg about hair, makp, fashn, and mic. He LOVED Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, and Jefee Star’.</p><figure class="css-1qsv1b2-StyledFigure e1e1fc3"><picture class="e1e1fc2 image css-wc1dj-PictureWhIntrsicRat-StyledArticleImage eosncpx0"></picture><figptn class="e1e1fc0 figptn css-1u2oo1a-StyledFigCaptn-StyledFigptn e13f1dd25"><span class="css-1vhm7mh-StyledFigCaptnText e13f1dd24"><span class="css-1vt5x9l-Captn e13f1dd23">Pam and Karl Ban stand together ls than two weeks after their son Kev was found ad. </span><span> Cred: <!-- -->Jake May<span>/</span>AP</span></span></figptn></figure><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Kev’s father Karl told the media his son was, ‘a good person, he was passnate, he red for the people he met, he red for the people he worked wh. He loved everybody.’</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">The appallg prospect of murro nnibals is thankfully rare, but there have been a few recent memory.</p><h2 class="css-7sl3hd-StyledSubhead e188yva80">Platg up penis</h2><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">In 2001, Arm Meiw om Rotenberg, Germany advertised for a ‘well-built young man who wanted to be eaten.’ Bern Brans replied.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">The two met at Meiw home and after Brans had taken 20 sleepg tablets and dnk half a bottle of schnapps, his host chopped off his penis then ied .</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Both men then ded.</p><figure class="css-1qsv1b2-StyledFigure e1e1fc3"><picture class="e1e1fc2 image css-rqgmkg-PictureWhIntrsicRat-StyledArticleImage eosncpx0"></picture><figptn class="e1e1fc0 figptn css-1u2oo1a-StyledFigCaptn-StyledFigptn e13f1dd25"><span class="css-1vhm7mh-StyledFigCaptnText e13f1dd24"><span class="css-1vt5x9l-Captn e13f1dd23">Germany's self-nfsed nnibal Arm Meiw at his retrial for murr 2006.</span><span> Cred: <!-- -->THOMAS LOHNES<span>/</span>DDP/AFP via Getty Imag</span></span></figptn></figure><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Meiw later stabbed Brans the neck, dismembered him and put the piec his ep eeze. He later osted and oked parts of Brans wh garlic and olive and allegedly acpanied by a bold South Ain red we.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">It was an horrific tale of killg and nnibalism between nsentg adults.</p><h2 class="css-7sl3hd-StyledSubhead e188yva80">Milwkee monster</h2><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">US serial killer Jefey Dahmer raped, murred and dismembered 17 men between 1978 and 1991.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">He would meet men at gay bars and shoppg centr, lurg them to his home (or often his grandmother’s home) wh promis of money or sex. Dahmer would then give his victims alhol laced wh dgs before stranglg them.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">When his Milwkee home was searched, police found body parts a reigerator, the closet and a vat.</p><figure class="css-1qsv1b2-StyledFigure e1e1fc3"><picture class="e1e1fc2 image css-13ob02x-PictureWhIntrsicRat-StyledArticleImage eosncpx0"></picture><figptn class="e1e1fc0 figptn css-1u2oo1a-StyledFigCaptn-StyledFigptn e13f1dd25"><span class="css-1vhm7mh-StyledFigCaptnText e13f1dd24"><span class="css-1vt5x9l-Captn e13f1dd23">Jefey Lnel Dahmer mugshot.</span><span> Cred: <!-- -->Curt Bwardt<span>/</span>Sygma via Getty Imag</span></span></figptn></figure><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Dahmer had oked and eaten parts of his victims, keepg other parts as trophi and acidifyg the remas.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">In 1994, jt months before he was beaten to ath prison, reporter Stone Phillips asked Dahmer why he ate parts of his victims.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">“It ma me feel like they were a permanent part of me,” he replied.</p><h2 class="css-7sl3hd-StyledSubhead e188yva80">An Asie nnibal</h2><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Back Atralia, Kathere Knight plead guilty to the murr of her partner John Price.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">After stabbg Price, Knight skned and pated the rpse. Police found body parts served up wh vegetabl the kchen - she had tend on feedg them to his unspectg children.</p><figure class="css-1qsv1b2-StyledFigure e1e1fc3"><picture class="e1e1fc2 image css-1v0udw4-PictureWhIntrsicRat-StyledArticleImage eosncpx0"></picture><figptn class="e1e1fc0 figptn css-1u2oo1a-StyledFigCaptn-StyledFigptn e13f1dd25"><span class="css-1vhm7mh-StyledFigCaptnText e13f1dd24"><span class="css-1vt5x9l-Captn e13f1dd23">Kathere Knight and her facto John Price.</span><span> Cred: <!-- -->Random Hoe<span>/</span>AAP</span></span></figptn></figure><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">The abattoir worker beme the first woman Atralia to be sentenced to life jail whout parole.</p><h2 class="css-7sl3hd-StyledSubhead e188yva80">Insane or not?</h2><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Knight, Dahmer and Meiw were all found to be legally sane.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">However, Latunski’s se, the judge has allowed an sany plea and he’s ctody awag mental health evaluatn.</p><h2 class="css-7sl3hd-StyledSubhead e188yva80">Perils of onle datg</h2><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Atralia has plentiful s of dat g an app that end dreadful experienc.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">One recent se was that of Ratu Bose Melbourne, who ed a fake name on his Tr profile. He purported to be a former French soldier and LA-based bodyguard.</p><figure class="css-1qsv1b2-StyledFigure e1e1fc3"><picture class="e1e1fc2 image css-13ob02x-PictureWhIntrsicRat-StyledArticleImage eosncpx0"></picture><figptn class="e1e1fc0 figptn css-1u2oo1a-StyledFigCaptn-StyledFigptn e13f1dd25"><span class="css-1vhm7mh-StyledFigCaptnText e13f1dd24"><span class="css-1vt5x9l-Captn e13f1dd23">Thgs aren’t always what they seem onle datg.</span><span> Cred: <!-- -->Getty</span></span></figptn></figure><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">He nned, terrified, btalised and raped two women.</p><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">In Augt 2019, Bose was sentenced on multiple unts wh the judge directg he serve a mimum of 9 years before beg eligible for parole.</p><h2 class="css-7sl3hd-StyledSubhead e188yva80">Safety first</h2><p class="css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">Datg apps are now mastream but don’t fet the risks. 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