MOST of us probably don’t Google our date.
Sure, we’ll take a quick look at Facebook and look through your old Instagram photos — but a search engine seems too far.
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However, Emma Klipstein’s story might make you think twice about not Googling her dates.
The 30-year-old felt a random urge to type her boyfriend’s name into Google while lying in her bed and was horrified by what she found.
She confessed to her one-in-a-million mess on the Unhinged podcast, which she co-hosts with her friend Chloe Madison.
Emma was in her final year at university when she met the “very charismatic” and “well-dressed” guy in a bar.
“He and I started making looks, we started talking,” she recalls.
“He told me that he has his own company, is 28 years old and was taking all his employees out for a celebratory drink.
“I met all these employees, they were all there and raving about him.
“He was buying all the drinks and I thought, ‘wow, this guy is a stand-up guy, that’s amazing’.”
Emma, from New York, ended up going home with the man for a one-night stand and said he was “being very affectionate with her.”
When morning came, he had to go to work, but he encouraged her to stay in his apartment until she was ready to leave.
At the time, Emma was thinking, “I could marry this man.”
“Usually when I meet a guy, I like to not Google him,” she continues.
“I specifically don’t Google them because I like learning things from the horse’s mouth.
“But for some reason I Googled this guy while I was at his apartment.
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“The first thing that came up is that he was in prison for eight years because he murdered someone.
“He shot them in the face at point blank range with a digital camera – and I just slept with him.”
Emma bolted out the door like a whip when she learned of his one-night stand’s criminal past.
She dubbed her story “a lesson for all girls, everywhere” and encouraged other women to “always Google people” after meeting them.
“He ended up calling me and I didn’t answer,” she adds.
“And then he kept calling me, started leaving voicemails and continued texting me every day.
“I ended up having to block his number… he’s in my phone as ‘The Killer’.”
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