More than one million Australians are active users of the dating app, Tinder, with those numbers rising by at least 5% each day. The app was created in 2012, and it truly exploded, completely erasing the social stigma that had surrounded online dating for years. However, two years later, a young woman’s death exposed the dangers that online dating can expose people to. The case was thrust into the spotlight when it was uncovered that the last moments of the young woman’s life had been caught on audio.
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Audio Sources:
“Gable Tostee and Warriena Wright Uncut Audio”
“Gable Tostee: Every question answered | 60 Minutes Australia”
“Sister of Warriena Wright Appeals for Help in Solving Case”
“Gable Tostee trial – Nick Dore – 7 News”
Sources:
The Gold Coast Bulletin, 17 June, 2006 – “Wizards of ID pick up a Stay Out of Jail Card”
The Daily Telegraph 10 August, 2014 – “Search for Love Leads to Woman’s Death Fall”
The Courier Mail, 11 August, 2014 – “Puzzle Pieces”
Bay of Plenty Times, 12 August, 2014 – “I Did Not Cause This Girl to Fall”
The Courier Mail, 12 August, 2014 – “Man Linked to Balcony Death Plunge Claims Innocence”
The New Zealand Herald, 12 August, 2014 – “Fatal Fall”
The Courier Mail, 13 August, 2014 – “Police Scan Hidden Camera Home Movies for Clues to Balcony Death”
The Dominion Post, 15 August, 2014 – “Sister Pleads for Leads on Tragic Fall”
The Daily Telegraph, 17 August, 2014 – “Final Plea: I Just Want to Go Home”
The Gold Coast Bulletin, 18 August, 2014 – “Pals Stand by Tostee”
The Dominion Post, 19 August, 2014 – “Cops to Use Case Law to Win Balcony Conviction”
The Dominion Post, 3 September, 2014 – “Sister Tells of Hopes and Dreams Dashed”
The Advertiser, 6 September, 2014 – “Pizza Order After Death Affidavit Details Chilling Allegations”
The Courier Mail, 7 September, 2014 – “Psycho Sex Claim Before Death Fall”
MX, 8 September, 2014 – “Tostee Question”
The Courier Mail, 9 September, 2014 – “I Saw Her Fall All The Way”
The Cairns Post, 13 September, 2014 – “Status Update: I’m Innocent”
Legal Monitor Worldwide, 10 October, 2014 – “Lawyers for Balcony Murder Accused Gable Tostee Demand Police Hand Over Evidence”
MX, 19 November, 2014 – “Judge Grants Tostee Bail”
The Courier Mail, 12 December, 2014 – “About That Tragedy”
The Courier Mail, 31 January, 2015 – “He’s on Murder Charges for the Death of his Last Date”
The Advertiser, 3 February, 2015 – “Playboy Jailed for Pursuit”
The Courier Mail, 6 August, 2015 – “Tragic Balcony Death Sheer Lunacy”
The Courier Mail, 26 July, 2016 – “Height of Audacity”
Associated Press, 10 October, 2016 – “Court Hears Case of Woman who Died Trying to Escape her Date”
The Daily Telegraph, 10 October, 2016 – “Tourist Fell to her Death from Balcony in Australia Trying to Escape Tinder Date”
The Advertiser, 11 October, 2016 – “Tostee Threatened Tinder Date”
The Courier Mail, 11 October, 2016 – “Selfie, Then Death”
The Courier Mail, 11 October, 2016 – “Witness Gasps at Reminder of Fatal Fall”
The Courier Mail, 12 October, 2016 – “Witness Begged Victim to go Inside”
The Courier Mail, 12 October, 2016 – “Final Scream: Let Me Go”
The Daily Record, 12 October, 2016 – “Final Moments of Tinder ‘Murder’ Victim’s Life Caught on CCTV”
The Courier Mail, 13 October, 2016 – “Tostee’s Pick Up Lines Read to Court”
The Independent, 13 October, 2016 – “Woman Who Fell to Her Death Trying to Escape Tinder Date Suffered 80 Injuries”
The Advertiser, 14 October, 2016 – “Warriena Wasn’t Strangled Before Her Fatal Plunge”
The Advertiser, 15 October, 2016 – “Tostee a Gent Says Defence”
Bay of Plenty Times, 15 October, 2016 – “Tinder Killer or Gentleman?”
The Courier Mail, 15 October, 2016 – “Choking Question Key to Outcome”
The Age, 21 October, 2016 – “Tostee Acquitted of Both Murder and Manslaughter”
The Courier Mail, 21 October, 2016 – “Almost Too Complex for a Jury”
