Article: A Cyberspace Fantasy Turned Fatally Real; Internet Partner Killed Md. Woman, Police Say

Their other lives, the ones they had invented in the cold glow of computer screens, the ones they made forbidden and thrilling late at night over the clippity rhythm of their keyboards, those lives died with Sharon Lopatka.

In the end, the electronic alter egos were ethereal. What was left was the common reality of a sordid killing, and Robert Glass wondering what to do with Lopatka's limp, heavy body.

Sharon Lopatka, 35, left Maryland's Carroll County to find her death in rural North Carolina at the faded, ramshackle trailer home of a man she had met on the Internet. Her death -- the police call it murder, the attorney for Glass calls it an accident -- exposed the fanciful second ...

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