Woman sues Match.com: Match calls the $10M suit 'absurd'
| Las Vegas
A Las Vegas woman is suing Match.com for $10 million after she was matched with a man who hid in her garage and brutally attacked her. Match.com says she has no legal basis for her lawsuit.
Mary Kay Beckman filed suit in U.S. District Court on Friday, accusing Match.com of failing to disclose the dangers of online dating.
She said she'd known Wade Ridley only eight days when she broke up with him in September 2010. Four months later, he stabbed her 10 times. He later was charged with murdering a woman in Phoenix. He died in prison last year.
Match.com said in a statement Monday that Beckman's experience was horrible but the lawsuit is "absurd." It said Beckman was a victim of a "sick, twisted" man with no known criminal record.
Match.com, the world's leading online dating and relationship company for over 15 years, markets itself as having gained "insight" into relationships from its millions of successful matches.
