The Internet’s First Real-Life Horror Story: The Sharon Lopatka Case
10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories
Joe Kuner
4.8 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
The internet in the ‘90s was the Wild West—chat rooms, shady deals, and absolutely zero regulations. But while most people were using their dial-up connection to argue about Seinfeld or play Minesweeper, Sharon Lopatka was using hers to search for something much darker. She had a request so extreme that even the most depraved corners of the web told her to log off.
But then came Bobby Glass—a mild-mannered government worker by day, a man with disturbingly aligned interests by night. When Sharon and Bobby finally met in person, things went exactly how they had planned… until they didn’t.
In this episode, we break down the story of Sharon Lopatka and the internet’s earliest brush with real-life horror. It’s a disturbing look at the collision between technology, obsession, and the kind of requests that should’ve stayed in the drafts.
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| 0:00.0 | The internet has always been a little weird, but back in the 90s, it was a lawless wasteland |
| 0:05.7 | where you could get a game boy, a haunted doll, and if you knew where to look, something a whole |
| 0:11.4 | lot worse. And in the middle of all that chaos was Sharon Lepotka, a woman who wasn't just |
| 0:17.5 | browsing the darkest corners of the web, she was actively shopping. |
| 0:22.3 | Sharon didn't want just anything. |
| 0:24.3 | She had one very specific, very disturbing request. |
| 0:28.4 | And while most people took one look and backed away immediately, one man did not. |
| 0:34.1 | Enter Bobby Glass, a government employee, a father, and as it turns out, the worst possible |
| 0:40.1 | person to say yes. What happened next? Well, I can tell you that when the police showed up |
| 0:44.9 | at Bobby's trailer, they weren't there to chat about dial-up speeds. But before we dive into |
| 0:49.7 | this story, if you like your true crime brief and bingeable, you're in the right place. Hit follow now |
| 0:55.1 | for at least two new episodes every week. This is 10-minute murder. Let's get into it. There was a time, not too long ago, when the internet was a mysterious and futuristic concept, |
| 1:23.2 | like flying cars or robot butlers that actually worked. Most people hadn't even logged on, |
| 1:29.2 | let alone wrapped their heads around the fact that tucked inside anonymous chat rooms, |
| 1:33.5 | an entire underworld was brewing. Information had never been so easy to access, so free, so unregulated. |
| 1:41.3 | So if you wanted to talk to strangers across the world, it was just a few key |
| 1:45.5 | strokes away. But here's the thing. When you give people unlimited access to one another, |
| 1:51.1 | you don't just get polite discussions about book clubs or casserole recipes. You also get the |
| 1:56.4 | kinds of conversations that make you stop mid-scroll and ask yourself, what in the Kentucky Fried Hell am I reading? |
| 2:03.6 | Because just as the internet opened the floodgates for everyday conveniences, |
| 2:07.6 | shopping, entertainment, and whatever the early version of memes were, |
| 2:11.6 | it also became a marketplace for things far darker than off-brand Tupperware. |
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