Woman Who Matched on Dating App with 'Serial Killer in the Making' Recalls Him Being 'Covered' in Her Blood

Mar. 15, 2025

Kane Fairbank.Photo:Davis County Sheriff’s Office

Davis County Sheriff’s Office

A woman who was stabbed aftermeeting an 18-year-old Utah man on a dating appis speaking out.

Monroe is now telling her story after being stabbed multiple times in her face and back after she got in Fairbank’s car to drive somewhere else, the outlet reported.

She’d also met up with him two days prior to the attack, as well as meeting “his mom, dad and niece,” the victim told the outlet.

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After Fairbank had wanted to go to “an area that was more secluded,” according to Monroe, she explained they went somewhere with no phone signal, spoke for a few hours, and ate, but she “doesn’t remember getting back in the car,” per the publication.

“All I remember was opening my eyes to him above me with a knife at my throat,” Monroe — who was luckily strong enough to fight her way out — said.

“I remember turning around and seeing him standing there, staring at me covered in my blood," she told the outlet. “He was just so focused on me and so angry I had gotten away.”

“In a way, I’m happy it was me. Because according to him, me fighting back deterred him,” Monroe told the outlet, urging anyone meeting someone off a dating app to “take him out with a couple of friends.”

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source: people.com